The Japanese Language and Japanese Culture Program was started in 1986, with about 60 students participating every year. Due to the pandemic, the program was canceled in 2020, and held online in 2021 and 2022. We resumed our face-to-face program with 19 students in 2023. We have had in excess of 2000 participants since the beginning of the program until 2023.
Institution | # of students participated since the program has started in 1986 |
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Yale University | 129 |
University of Pennsylvania | 116 |
University of Washington | 99 |
Harvard University | 87 |
University of Notre Dame | 81 |
The University of Chicago | 63 |
Northwestern University | 54 |
Princeton University | 53 |
University of California, Los Angeles | 52 |
University of Michigan | 52 |
etc. | ... |
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The summer at HIF has been wonderful for me! I'm so glad that I was able to improve my Japanese so much and met so many wonderful instructors ...