{"id":84231,"date":"2018-09-12T13:42:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T23:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=84231"},"modified":"2019-04-05T16:20:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T02:20:58","slug":"he-kim-mext-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/12\/he-kim-mext-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Prestigious Japanese scholarship awarded to two <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> students"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_84229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84229\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-lll-mext-he-kim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-lll-mext-he-kim.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/manoa-lll-mext-he-kim-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, JiaJie He, Deputy Consul General Takayuki Shinozawa and Yunmi Kim (Photo by Lisa Sakamoto)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> students are the only <abbr title=\"United States\">U.S.<\/abbr> award recipients of the Monbukagakusho Scholarship from the Japanese government\u2019s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (<abbr title=\"Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology\">MEXT<\/abbr>). <strong>JiaJie He<\/strong> and <strong>Yunmi Kim<\/strong> are Japanese language majors in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/eall\/\">Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures<\/a>. Both are also graduates of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> public high schools.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Consul General of Japan in Honolulu presented He and Kim with the scholarships, which provide tuition, living expenses and stipends.<\/p>\n<p>He, a junior double-majoring in Japanese and travel industry management, will study at Nagoya University in Japan. He moved from China to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> about 10 years ago and graduated from Roosevelt High School. He values and admires Japanese <em>omotenashi<\/em> (hospitality) and hopes to apply that same high standard to the travel industry. He plans to use what he learns from Japan and the Monbukagakusho scholarship experience in future endeavors&#8212;in Japan or the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Kim, a senior double&#8211;majoring in Japanese and biology, will study at Doshisha University in Kyoto. Born in Japan, she moved with her family to the U.S. when she was just two years old. A graduate of McKinley High School, Kim developed a keen interest in biology because of its pathway to the medical field. She understands the need for bilingual medical professionals for Japanese&#8211;only speaking patients and she hopes to learn about the Japanese medical profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JiaJie He and Yunmi Kim are the only U.S. award recipients of the Monbukagakusho Scholarship from the Japanese government\u2019s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[163,134,1022,572,660,9],"class_list":["post-84231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-college-of-languages-linguistics-and-literature","tag-international","tag-japanese","tag-scholarship","tag-student-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84231"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84538,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84231\/revisions\/84538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}