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Peace Scholarships Available
The Japan-America Soci- ety of Hawai‘i is relaunch- ing its Hiroshima Peace Scholarship for 2023. The program is open to Honolu- lu high school students who are passionate about spread- ing peace and strengthening the relationship between Hawai‘i and Hiroshima, Ja- pan.
Japanese students.
The pair will also be re-
Fluency in the Japanese language is not a require- ment for the Hiroshima Peace Scholarship. JASH is encouraging students with or without a Japanese language background to apply.
One public school student and one private school stu- dent will be chosen. The win- ning pair will attend monthly workshops in Honolulu to prepare them for an educa- tional summer trip to Hiro- shima, where they will ex- plore the history and impact of World War II, participate in events commemorating the Aug. 6, 1945, bombing of Hiroshima, and experience living with host families and
The Hiroshima Peace Scholarship was founded in 2009 by Hiromi Peterson and Naomi Hirano-Omizo, retired faculty of Punahou School.
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ceived by the Hiroshima Peace Scholarship’s newly founded sister program, the Hawai‘i Heiwa Scholarship, which plans to send high school students from Hiro- shima to Hawai‘i starting in the spring of 2024.
To qualify, students must complete a written applica- tion that includes a proposal identifying a family member whose wartime experienc- es they want to learn more about and share with high school students in Hiroshi- ma. The purpose of the pro- posal would be to highlight the impact of war and the importance of peace. Final- ists will be required to attend an oral interview.
JASH is a nonprofit with a mission to promote peace, understanding and friend- ship between Japan and the United States through the unique perspective of Hawai‘i. It has been over- seeing the Hiroshima Peace Scholarship since 2021.
The deadline for appli- cations is Jan. 6. For more information, visit jashawaii. org/hps.
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