U.S.-Japan Council Emerging Leaders Program 2025 – YOA

Deadline: June 29, 2025

Applications for the U.S.-Japan Council Emerging Leaders Program 2025 are actually open. The U.S.-Japan Council’s Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) cultivates and empowers the subsequent era of Japanese American leaders. Participants interact in management growth, kind significant skilled connections, and construct lasting private friendships.

Each 12 months, a brand new cohort of people aged 24-35 is chosen to attend the U.S.-Japan Council Annual Conference, turn into USJC Associate Members, and be part of a rising community of alumni dedicated to strengthening U.S.-Japan relations. Through entry to their broad community and publicity to well timed and related matters, this system evokes contributors to champion robust and constructive U.S.-Japan ties in each their private {and professional} lives.

United by a dedication to neighborhood and connection throughout the Pacific, ELP members draw energy from their variety and shared imaginative and prescient, fueling lasting influence and inspiration.

2025 Program

Now in its sixteenth 12 months, the Emerging Leaders Program will welcome 10 to 12 distinctive Japanese American professionals to take part within the U.S.-Japan Council Annual Conference and Members Day in Honolulu. This prestigious gathering brings collectively regional, nationwide, and worldwide leaders from authorities, enterprise, academia, and nonprofit sectors to discover the present state and way forward for the U.S.-Japan partnership throughout a variety of well timed and related matters. Through direct entry to senior leaders and publicity to those important discussions, this system encourages contributors to turn into energetic champions of robust and enduring U.S.-Japan relations.

Benefits

• Selected contributors will turn into Associate Members of the U.S.-Japan Council, with their first 12 months’s membership dues waived (membership is usually by invitation or nomination).
• All journey and program-associated bills for the Conference are absolutely lined.

Eligibility

Candidates for the Emerging Leaders Program must be Japanese American professionals who meet the next standards:

• Age: 24–35 years previous on the time of the Conference
• Citizenship: U.S. citizen or authorized everlasting resident
• Residence: Residing within the United States or Japan, with the flexibility to journey to Honolulu for the Annual Conference
• Passion for U.S.-Japan relations: Demonstrated by skilled, educational, extracurricular, or neighborhood involvement
• Leadership: Proven management expertise in skilled or neighborhood settings
• Commitment: Dedication to stay actively concerned in U.S.-Japan Council applications and initiatives

Application

Applicants should full the net application kind and submit the next supplies. A PDF packet together with the primary three paperwork beneath shall be required, in addition to a quick introductory video. All supplies should be in English.

• Resume
• Personal Statement
• Letter(s) of Recommendation (restrict 2, could also be submitted individually through e mail)
• Short video (see immediate in application kind beneath, restrict 3 minutes)
• Optional: different supporting supplies 

Late or incomplete purposes is not going to be accepted.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Emerging Leaders Program.