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George Mason University student Kaloyan Kostov recently returned from a ten day trip to Japan as the inaugural winner of the CEPEX Japan Studies Award. Kaloyan began his trip with a brief internship at the Sojitz Research Institute in Tokyo where he drafted a report on the Asia Development Bank. On a visit to the […]

CEPEX Japan Studies Award winner Kaloyan Kostov started his internship at the Washington D.C. office of Sojitz Corporation of America this week. Between visits to Capitol Hill to attend congressional hearings and going to events at local think tanks, Kaloyan has been gathering data for an in-depth research project. The two week internship in Washington, […]

Thank you  applicants for showing interest in the inaugural CEPEX Japan Studies Award. We received a lot of projects and were impressed by the variety and quality of the research papers. We finally narrowed the submissions down to three finalists. The two runners up for this year are Catherine Nguyen and Dirk Macorol. Catherine wrote […]

The 2010 CEPEX Japan Studies Award CEPEX is proud to be sponsoring the inaugural Japan Studies Award. The goal of this contest is to support young would-be professionals interested in Japan and to strengthen the overall U.S.-Japan relationship. The 2010 Japan Studies Award was open to undergraduate students in good standing currently enrolled in the […]

Presentations given by the George Mason University undergraduate students in JAPA 310: Japanese Culture in a Global World on the empirical research projects that they undertook on aspects of the increasingly globalizing Japanese cultural phenomena as part of their coursework. Japan’s pretty soldiers: Sailor Moon as a gateway to Japanese interest Separate but equal: Japanese […]

2010 Inaugural Contest The 2010 CEPEX Japan Studies Award contest is open to undergraduate students in good standing currently enrolled in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at George Mason University. There is no restriction on the major or field of study the student is pursuing. Nor is it required that the participating student […]