The Hakuho Foundation believes that in an increasingly globalized world, it is more important than ever for people to understand and recognize the diversity of lifestyles and cultures in each other’s countries.
The Hakuho Scheme for a Global Children’s Japanese Language Network provides opportunities for overseas children to deepen their understanding of Japan and for Japanese children to grow to become international people by experiencing each other’s cultures and participating in intercultural activities through the medium of the Japanese language. Collectively, the four programs from a repeating cycle.
Training Program in Japan for Overseas Teachers
(support for overseas Japanese classroom environment enhancement)
This Program supports the enhancement of overseas Japanese language learning environments by inviting Japanese language teachers (non-Japanese nationals) from elementary and middle school-level learning institutions abroad to visit Japan.
Japan Experience Program for Overseas Children
(support for cultural interaction between overseas and Japanese children)
This Program invites children studying Japanese at elementary and middle school-level learning institutions overseas to Japan for school visits, cultural and social experiences, themed discussions, and other activities intended to foster understanding of and interest in Japanese language and culture.
Overseas Experience Program for Japanese Children
(support for cultural interaction between Japanese and overseas children)
This Program supports visits to other countries by Japanese children, promoting their renewed understanding of Japanese language and culture and awareness of themselves as international people through themed discussions, interaction and cultural experiences with their overseas peers in the Japanese language.
A community website for Japanese and overseas teachers and students. This interactive venue introduces the content of previously conducted interaction and experience programs and provides information on Japanese culture and language instruction.
- 1. Obtain the Application Guidelines and other forms.
(These can be downloaded below.) - 2. Fill out the Application Participation, Written Statement of Intention and the questionnaire (to be filled in by the applicant).
- 3. Fill out the Letter of Consent (by the head of applicant’s organization).
- 4. Obtain various certificate forms, including teacher’s certificates.
- 5. Send above documents by mail.
- ※ Please refer to the Application Guidelines for details.
Application Guidelines
- Application Participation / Letter of Consent
/ Written Statement of Intention / Questionnaire
※Applications for the 3rd Japan Training Program for Overseas Teachers have now closed.
Application deadline:Must arrive by June 12, 2009
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