The Mitsubishi Journeys Project helps students in Seattle Public Schools learn more about international trade and relations, focusing on trade between the Pacific Northwest and Japan. Each year, five middle school teachers and their students in the Seattle Public Schools are involved in the project. Each class visits either Mitsubishi or a Mitsubishi client's or customer's facility reinforcing what the students have learned in the case studies and offering them firsthand knowledge about the products and situations the have studied.
Students give oral presentations and prepare a written essay which are subsequently judged.
The winning team receives a trip to Japan. During the 1998-99 school year, five students and two teachers from NOMS Middle School flew to Tokyo for a week to learn more about trade between the United States and Japan. In the current school year, a team of students from Denny Middle School successfully won the competition and trip to Japan.