Stanford e-Japan is an online course that teaches Japanese high school students about U.S. society and culture and U.S.–Japan relations. The course introduces students to both U.S. and Japanese perspectives on many historical and contemporary issues. It is offered biannually by the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE). Stanford e-Japan is supported by the Yanai Tadashi Foundation.

In August 2023, three of the top students of the Fall 2022 Stanford e-Japan distance-learning course will be honored at a Japan Day ceremony through Stanford University. The three Stanford e-Japan honorees—Yukie Arashida (Yonezawa Kojokan High School, Yamagata), Yohkoh Hineno (Tokai High School, Aichi), and Ami Osaka (International Christian University High School, Tokyo)—will be recognized for their coursework and exceptional research essays that focused respectively on “Proposals for Appropriate Employment System: A Comparative Study of Employment Systems Between the United States and Japan,” “Gender Equality: The Potential Incentive,” and “Abortion: The Current System That Is Failing to Protect Women’s Rights in Japan and the United States.” 

Risa Fukushima (Senzoku Gakuen High School, Kanagawa) received an Honorable Mention for her research paper on “The Legitimacy of Implementing Electoral Gender Quota System in the United States and Japan.” Kotaro Tomita (Shibuya Junior and Senior High School, Tokyo) also received an Honorable Mention for his paper on “Saturday Night Live’s Leftward Shift and America’s Political Polarization: How SNL Can Help Unify Americans.”

In the Fall 2022 session of Stanford e-Japan, students from Hiroshima Global Academy (Hiroshima), International Christian University High School (Tokyo), Katoh Gakuen Gyoshu Junior and Senior High School (Shizuoka), Keio Girls Senior High School (Tokyo), Kumamoto High School (Kumamoto), Matsuyama East High School (Ehime), Mita International School (Tokyo), Municipal Urawa High School (Saitama), Okayama Prefectural Okayama Asahi Senior High School (Okayama), Otemaetakamatsu High School (Kagawa), Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior and Senior High School (Hokkaido), Sagami Koyokan High School (Kanagawa), Seikyo Gakuen Senior High School (Osaka), Senior High School at Otsuka, University of Tsukuba (Tokyo), Senzoku Gakuen High School (Kanagawa), Shibuya Junior and Senior High School (Tokyo), Shibuya Kyouiku Gakuen Makuhari Senior High School (Chiba), Shirayuri Gakuen Senior High School (Tokyo), Tochigi Prefectural Utsunomiya Chuo Girls’ High School (Tochigi), Tokai High School (Aichi), Tokyo Gakugei University International Secondary School (Tokyo), Tsurumaru High School (Kagoshima), Waseda University High School (Tokyo), and Yonezawa Kojokan High School (Yamagata) participated in the course.

For more information about the Stanford e-Japan Program, please visit stanfordejapan.org. The application period for the fall 2023 session will begin June 30, 2023.

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