Society Announces Japan Bowl Date, Format Change

The 2006 National Japan Bowl™ Competition, sponsored and organized by our Society, will be held in Washington, DC on Saturday and Sunday, March 25-26, 2006 at the University of the District of Columbia on Van Ness Avenue, NW. Over 800 students from across the United States are expected to attend this 14th annual competition, which tests teams of high school students on their knowledge of Japanese language and culture.

In recent years teams competed across the country to become a regional representative and travel to Washington for the annual National Japan Bowl™. Now, responding to the requests of many schools and students, we have expanded the competition so that more students across the USA can come to the Nation's Capital to participate in a single location, open competition of teams.

The application deadline is January 27, 2006. Complete information is available in the Competition Guide and Forms which may be downloaded from the Society’s homepage at www.us-japan.org/dc. Our website also has a short video of the 2005 Competition.