Japan America Student Conference Scholarships
CJS offers 2026 JASC Scholarships
JASC Application Deadline: December 28, 2025 | CJS Scholarship Deadline: December 31, 2025
The Center for Japanese Studies grants full scholarships to the Japan-American Student Conference for Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students. Awards are open to any full-time student with an interest in Japan.
The Japan-America Student Conference (JASC) is a student-led exchange program, initiated in 1934 by university students concerned by the breakdown of bilateral relations prior to the Second World War. Today, an equal number of students from the U.S. and Japan are competitively selected each year to spend one summer month together, studying and analyzing Japan-U.S. relations while visiting diverse regions in the host country. JASC alternates its host country every year, emphasizing the personal connections between two distinct cultures gathered together in one place.
The 78th JASC Conference will take place in the U.S., visiting San Francisco, CA, Nashville, TN, and Washington, D.C. from August 3 to August 22, 2026. The American orientation will take place immediately prior to the program start.
For the 78th JASC program, see: https://iscdc.org/jasc/. To apply, please see: https://form.jotform.com/252747370799170. The deadline to apply to JASC is December 28, 2025, and applications should be submitted directly to JASC in Washington D.C.
Thanks to a generous donor gift, CJS offers two scholarships in the amount of $3,000 each to UC Berkeley applicants. To apply for the CJS scholarships, students should submit a screenshot of their JASC application by e-mail (PDF format preferred) to the Center for Japanese Studies by December 31, 2025.
Scholarship applications must include all components of the online JASC application
- Resume
- Transcripts
- Application statement (full description of your answer to Essay Question #1: What is your vision for JASC78?)
Please send scholarship applications by email to cjs@berkeley.edu.
For more details contact CJS (cjs@berkeley.edu / 510-642-3156).