As a journalist for an American newspaper, I have met many people in Tokyo and Washington D.C. who are engaged in US-Japan relations. Most of the diplomats, researchers and journalists from Japan and the US experienced studying abroad in each other\u2019s country when they were younger. A common concern they\u2019ve had for the past 10 years or so is the sharp decrease in exchange between the two countries among the youth who will lead the next generation of US-Japan relations. Many Japanese cannot afford the yearly expenses required to study at US universities now, which can reach as high as 10 million yen (roughly $80,000). If the students use the exchange programs sponsored by their universities, the tuition may be reduced but dormitory and food expenses can still be prohibitively expensive. This year\u2019s yen weakness and inflation have added to the cost. The other day at a Waseda Alumni Association gathering in Washington, I listened to the struggles that current study abroad students are facing. I cannot imagine where I would be today without my experience as a high school exchange student in a small Midwestern town or the intellectually stimulating time as a graduate student in New York. It\u2019s time we step up and help develop the next generation of leaders in international relations.<\/p>\n
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Yuka Hayashi, Graduate of the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University As a journalist for an American newspaper, I have met many people in Tokyo and Washington D.C. who are engaged in US-Japan relations. Most of the diplomats, researchers and journalists from Japan and the US experienced studying abroad in each other\u2019s country when they were younger. A common concern they\u2019ve had for the past 10 years or so is the sharp decrease in exchange between the two countries among the youth who will lead the next generation of US-Japan relations. Many Japanese cannot afford the yearly expenses required to study at US universities now, which can reach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-en","tag-alumni-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/us-office\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}