Governor Tanimoto Welcomes New Mansfield Fellows
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Governor Tanimoto Welcomes New Mansfield Fellows
July 20, 2017
For more than fifteen years, Ishikawa Prefecture Governor Masanori Tanimoto has welcomed the new Mansfield Fellows soon after they arrive in the prefecture for seven weeks of intensive Japanese language study. Last week Governor Tanimoto welcomed the twenty-second group of Mansfield Fellows to his office. The governor learned about the Fellows’ objectives for ...READ MORE »
New Mansfield Fellows Begin Fellowship Year in Japan
July 13, 2017
Last week the twenty-second group of Mansfield Fellows arrived in Japan for the year-long Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program. The ten new Fellows began the program with a series of orientation meetings in Tokyo and an opportunity to meet with nine alumni who participated in the Fellowship Program from the first class ...
Alumni Fellows News
July 13, 2017
Before returning to his home agency in the United States, Mansfield Fellow Michael Fletcher shared a U.S.-Japan perspective on trends in aerospace with students at The University of Tokyo’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Mr. Fletcher, a program manager with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will return to NASA Ames Research Center in California ...
Twenty-First Group of Mansfield Fellows Concludes Fellowship Year
July 6, 2017
Last week the twenty-first group of Mansfield Fellows wrapped up their Fellowship year in Japan. Among their final meetings was a June 26 debriefing with the National Personnel Authority (NPA), which is instrumental in securing the Fellows’ placements in Japanese government agencies and ministries during the year. Speaking in Japanese, each ...
Mansfield Fellows Visit IHI Corporation
July 6, 2017
In the final weeks of their Fellowship year, two members of the 21st class of Mansfield Fellows received an inside look at one of the companies leading Japan’s growing aerospace industry — IHI Corporation. Last month Michael Fletcher (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and Sean Wilson visited facilities supporting IHI’s production of jet engines ...
