Building the TOMODACHI Generation is a ground-breaking, two-week program designed by The Washington Center, for Japanese students with an interest in leadership training, cross-cultural exchanges and entrepreneurial approaches to addressing social challenges.
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The Fall 2015 cohort created this video and showed it to everyone at Commencement last Dec 11, 2015. Congratulations, Fall 2015 students!