Alumni News

We are always eager to hear from our alumni and friends In Japanese Studies. Please share your news with us. With your permission, we will share your news on our newsletter site.

We welcome all news, but especially experiences of how a Japanese Studies major helped lead to a career. Our students are also eager to learn of internships and job opportunities.

Recent News!

 

David Ranzini '12 received a J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law in 2020, and is a corporate associate in the Tokyo office of Morrison Foerster LLP. David completed a bilingual Masters Program in Law at Kyushu University, in Japan. After graduating from W&M, he spent three years with the JET program, working in Akita (where he won his town's "Dialect Speech Contest"). He also spent a summer in Akita on W&M's study-abroad program with Akita International University (2024).

Jon "Nic" Querolo '16 is a journalist with Bloomberg News. Nic graduated with a self-designed major in Japanese Studies and a second major in Finance and Business Administration, after spending his sophomore year in Tokyo studying at W&M's partner institution, Keio University. He previously worked as a producer in the DC Bureau of Japan's public television station, NHK and purused a masters of financial journalism at Columbia University.  (2024)

Julian Oreska '09 works as a product developer for the toy company Bandai. Julian was a double Business and East Asian Studies major who also completed the Canon Corp. internship in summer 2009. (2024)

Michael Berman '06  is currently a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University. Previously, he was a Visiting Foreign Researcher in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Tokyo. Michael earned his PhD in Anthropology at UC San Diego. He previously earned a master's degree in Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Palgrave published Michael's book-length translation of Yuki Masami's Foodscapes of Contemporary Japanese Women: An Ecocritical Journey around the Hearth of Modernity. (2025)

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