Student Accomplishments

Achievements

2019-20 Awards and Scholarships Highlights

2020 Best Award of Salem

• Japan Studies Student Leaders (JSSL)

Fulbright Scholar Award for Japan

• Claire Verstrate

Gold Award Winner of Category III  of the J.LIVE (National Japanese Speech Contest) 

• Natasha Milligan

Helen Yeoman Luther Scholarship 

• Chris Gatling
• Lexi Louie

Phi Beta Kappa Society (America’s most prestigious academic honor society)

• Gavin Honke

WU Senior Certificate Award

• Claire Verstrate

WU Senior Key Award

• Jaelin Sonoda

Japanese Studies Majors and Japanese Minors

*As of May 2020

• Class of 2020: 7 majors, 7 minors
• Class of 2021: 7 majors, 4 minors
• Class of 2022: 4 majors, 6 minors
• Class of 2023: 2 majors, 1 minor

JET Program 

• 2020: 5 ALT, 2 CIR
• 2019: 4 ALT, 1 CIR
• 2018: 10 ALT
• 2017: 1 ALT, 1 CIR
• 2016: 5 ALT, 1 CIR
• 2015: 8 ALT

Toyama Cup Speech Contest

List participants by year in numbers, like JET

• 2019: 1st Place Winner Division 1 ( 5 Willamette participants)
• 2018: 1st Place Division 2 Winner ( participants)
• 2017: 1st Place Division 1 Winner, 1st Place 2nd Division Winner (2 Willamette participants)
• 2016: 1st Place Division 1 Winner (2 Willamette participants)

Study Abroad

Japanese Studies Program (JSP)

• 2019-20: 10 participants
• 2018-19: 16 participants
• 2017-18: 9 participants
• 2016-17: 10 participants

Japan Summer Program

• 2019: 11 participants
• 2018: 14 participants
• 2017: 12 participants 
• 2016: 15 participants

Leadership

Club leaders

• JSSL Executives
  • Marcos Maza (President), Claire Verstrate (Vice President), Abby Ferguson (Secretary), Andrew Arzaga (Treasurer), Mason McGrail (Historian)
• WU Taiko President
  • Gavin Honke
• Sanshin Club President
  • Amelia Gingrich
• Koto Club Presidents
  • Andrew Arzaga (FA19), Kahi Wilhelm (SP20)

IPC (International Peer Coach)

• Lauren Laine, Kyra Styner

Language in Motion

• Language in Motion Japanese Facilitator: Natasha Milligan
• Howard Street Charter School Japanese Program participants
  • Rey Takahashi, Gavin Honke, Yasmin Flores-Lopez, Mason McGrain, Kyra Styner

Language Table Coordinator

• Amelia Gingrich

Opening Days Coordinator

• Jaelin Sonoda

TIUA Tutor

• Sucdi Ahmed, Jack Glenn,  Jaelin Sonoda

World Languages Studio

• Natasha Milligan (Student Manager and Japanese Liaison)
• Rey Takahashi (Japanese Liaison)

Faculty Publications

• Fujiwara, Miho. 2019.  A Paradigm-Based Analysis of the Honorific Prefixes 'O' and 'Go" and Its Application to Language Teaching. 　敬語接頭辞「お・ご」パラダイムに基づく分析と言語教育への応用　 Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Japanese Education (CAJLE) Annual Conference 2019. 71-77.