CEPEX

The Center For Professional Exchange

The 2015 CEPEX Japan Studies Award CEPEX is proud to be sponsoring the 6th Annual Japan Studies Award in 2015. The goals of this program are to support young future American professionals interested in Japan and to strengthen the overall U.S.-Japan relationship. The 2015 Japan Studies Award is open to undergraduate students in good standing […]

The JET Program The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program began with 800 participants in 1987 with the lofty aim to increase grassroots internationalization. Young college graduates were selected to live and work in Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) or Coordinator for International Relations (CIR) from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and […]

CEPEX hosted a dinner on September 24, 2014, with special guest Mr. Yukio Tada, Chairman of Keizai Doyukai’s Project Team for Empowerment of Japan Hands. Mr. Tada visited DC to discuss Empowerment of the JET Program following his delivery of a keynote speech at the JETAA National Conference in Seattle, Washington. Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate […]

  Management Trainee Tokyo, Japan Sojitz Corporation is a highly diversified Japanese business conglomerate operating in a wide variety of industries, with a group network which encompasses over 400 subsidiaries and affiliates in more than 50 countries across the globe. We are now looking for highly motivated and talented students or graduates who wish to […]

(L-R: Andrea Wert, Nicole Uehara and Zak Whittle) Hello! My name is Zak Whittle, a senior at George Mason University majoring in Finance with a Japanese Studies minor.  Allow me to tell you a little bit about myself! Growing up, I lived in many places throughout the United States. The place I call home, though, […]

 2014 Application Packet The 2014 CEPEX Japan Studies Award contest is open to undergraduate students in good standing at American University, George Mason University and George Washington University. While there is no restriction on the field of study or a requirement of enrollment in a Japanese language course, strong interest in Japan or U.S.-Japan relations […]

The 2014 CEPEX Japan Studies Award CEPEX is proud to be sponsoring the 5th Annual Japan Studies Award in 2014. The goals of this program are to support young future American professionals interested in Japan and to strengthen the overall U.S.-Japan relationship. The 2014 Japan Studies Award is open to undergraduate students in good standing […]

I am really thankful for being selected for this award.  The entire experience was wonderful and I learned a lot.  It was very interesting learning how a multi-national corporation like Sojitz has a presence abroad.  I was able to see how the research done in Washington, DC made it to Tokyo for inclusion in bigger […]

CEPEX and Sunrock Institute hosted Keizai Doyukai Americas-Japan Relations Committee chairman Yukio Tada for a special dinner with JET Program alumni, Japan experts and friends of Keizai Doyukai at Tono Sushi on November 13, 2013. Mr. Tada discussed Abenomics and fielded questions from the assembled group about the role of women and immigration in Japan. […]

Hello my name is Donald Garrett.  I am a rising senior at George Mason University that is majoring in Government and International Politics with a double minor in both Japanese Studies and Tourism & Events Management. My interest in the Japanese language began in high school.  I wanted to study a foreign language that was […]