Crown Prince Akihito Scholarship Foundation Award Ceremony

The CPASF held a ceremony on June 20, 2019 at the Japanese Consulate in Honolulu to present scholarship awards to Mr. Masaki Eguchi and Ms. Francesca Pizarro. Mr. Allen Uyeda, Chairman, made the presentation on behalf of the CPASF board.

Mr. Masaki Eguchi received a Master’s degree in Education (English Language Teaching) from the Graduate School of Education at Waseda University, Tokyo. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. His interests include second-language vocabulary learning and teaching, usage-based approaches to language acquisition and content-based instruction. Specifically, his research focuses on the development of the lexical network in learner mental lexicon to draw some implications for foreign language teaching.

Ms. Francesca Pizarro earned her BA in East Asian Studies from the City University of New York (CUNY) Queen’s College and MA in Japanese Literature from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is currently a PhD candidate in Japanese Literature in the East Asian Languages and Literature department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is interested in the representations of schoolgirls and girl culture in Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1926) era fiction and popular media. She will conduct her dissertation research as a student researcher under the mentorship of Dr. Hiraishi Noriko at the University of Tsukuba in Ibaraki, Japan.

Mahalo to the Consul General Ito for hosting our event.