Interning with the Japan-America Society of Washington DC is a great opportunity to gain skills, experience, and contacts in the world of US-Japan culture exchange and policy.
During your internship you will have the opportunity to interact with American and Japanese members of the cultural, business, and policy communities, and gain hands-on experience managing the Society’s programs and events! An internship with JASWDC will help you develop skills that will assist in your future career, and will connect you with mentors in the US-Japan community to help guide you on your journey.
Internships with the Society are available to a limited number of college students each throughout the year. Internships are unpaid positions. Depending on the university’s internship program, credit is sometimes offered. Interns must pledge to work a minimum of three full days a week for a period of no less than eight weeks.
In all internship applications we look for:
Japanese Home Cooking with Table for Two and the Japan-America Societies of Washington DC, Boston, Georgia, Houston, North Carolina, Philadelphia, Colorado, and Indiana.
Join us for the May edition of the family-friendly online Japanese home cooking class series おうちごはん！ Ouchigohan! – Japanese Home Cooking and cook along or just watch from your own kitchen. On the menu this month is Tofu Miso Curry!
We are excited to announce May’s Ouchigohan class featuring guest chef and cooking teacher of her own online cooking school, Miwako Kishi, of the very popular website “Miwa’s Japanese Cooking.” Her recipes are often plant based and feature balanced meals that embrace the Japanese concept ichiju sansai: one soup, three side dishes. This month Miwa will be showing us how to make a simple and delicious vegan Tofu Miso Curry and Miso Yogurt Pickles. Our Debra Samuels from Table for Two, will be cooking alongside Miwa-sensei who will be joining us from her home kitchen in Japan. Q & A will follow the class.
Once registered you will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link and recipe card.
NAJAS friends can enter their Society-provided code at checkout for a discounted rate.
Join the JASWDC Haiku Group!
led by haiku poet and author, Abigail Friedman
Experience the beauty of haiku and hone your haiku-writing skills at the Japan-America Society of Washington DC Haiku Group. This haiku group, or kukai, provides a platform for writers of haiku to come together and develop their craft in a fun, friendly atmosphere. Following a format similar to that of Japanese haiku groups, participants will bring to the session three haiku poems in English that they have written beforehand. The group then shares each haiku anonymously around the room without critique. Following this, each participant will select their favorites among all they have read on that day. As for the rest, come to the group to find out!
Led by esteemed haiku poet and author Abigail Friedman, the group meets once every two months. More details on how a kukai functions will be explained at the group itself.
The group will meet at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, located at 901 G St. NW, Washington, DC 20001:
Date: Saturday, June 1st
Time: 2:30 – 4:30 pm (EST)
Location: 401-E Conference Room, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
Schedule and requirements:
Haiku theme: (optional) Food in haiku
Number of Haiku: Bring three English-language haiku you have composed SCHEDULE
2:30-3:30 pm: Anonymous sharing of haiku
3:30-3:50 pm: break (Marianne’s café by DC Central Kitchen, on 1st floor of library) 3:50-4:30 pm: A conversation with Zeina Azzam, poet laureate of Alexandria, Virginia - on the topic of: 'Food in long form poetry and haiku'. Zeina Azzam, a Palestinian American poet, writer, editor, and community activist, is currently the Poet Laureate of the City of Alexandria, Virginia. Her most recent full-length poetry collection, Some Things Never Leave You, was published by Tiger Bark Press in July 2023.
Although this event is free, participants are asked to register in advance so that we have a sense of the number of attendees and can email participants in the event of last-minute changes.
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