Long Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Association
Founded in 1963
MISSION STATEMENT
“To create rapport between the cities by exchanging cultural, civic, educational ideas and issues, and to promote better understanding and friendship between the United States and Japan.”
Yokkaichi English Fellows (YEF)
One of the highlights of the Long Beach-Yokkaichi Sister City Association is the Yokkaichi English Fellows (YEF) program. This very successful program provides an opportunity for LBUSD teachers or Cal State Long Beach graduates to serve for two years as assistant language teachers at the elementary and middle school levels in Yokkaichi, Japan.
This is an English immersion program for the students. Speaking Japanese is not required.
Selected teachers or new graduates will work at a paid position in the Yokkaichi School System for two years. A total of seven YEFs are at the school system each year and are replaced on a rotating basis so that the 2nd year YEFs may assist the new arrivals.
1993 YEF Reunion in Long Beach
1994 YEF in Yokkaichi
1995 YEF in Yokkaichi
2006 YEF Reunion at Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, CSULB
2010 YEF Gathering in Long Beach
2018 YEF
2018 YEF
37th YEF Anniversary Celebration was held on July 21, 2022
at the Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden
Cal StateUniversity, L.B.
2025 YEF Program
Applications are no longer being accepted.
Watch this website in early 2026 for applications
to the YEF Program in Yokkaichi, Japan.
December 2024 Yokkaichi Board of Education and Assistant Teaching Staff.
25th YEF Anniversary, 2011
