USA SUMMER CAMP

There is no greater mission than that of positively influencing a child.

USA Summer Camp has become the most famous and successful program of Guy Healy, Japan. It is a unique program bringing young Japanese students together with American counselors for a 24-hour a day English immersion program. Stressing daily use of English, the camp provides a 1 to 5 counselor/student ratio where counselors are actually flown in from the United States.

USA Summer Camp originally began in Nagasaki prefecture in the summer of 1992. Throughout the years, USA Summer Camp has gained a lot of respect and popularity. GHJ’s promotion of global friendship and cooperation attracted the largest travel agency in Japan, the Japan Travel Bureau (JTB), to sign a contract with GHJ for USA Summer Camp to go national beginning in 2003. During the summer of 2004, USA Summer Camp ran in seven different locations. The original Nagasaki team continues to run independently and is not supported by JTB. The other six teams that are supported by JTB are located in: Tokyo (2), Osaka, Nagoya, Kita Kyushu, and Kumamoto. While Guy Healy, Japan continues to plan and run the camp programs, JTB does the marketing and camper recruitment for the camps.

The close relationship between counselors and campers is what makes USA Summer Camp such a unique and successful program. The counselors are not “teachers” whose day is done when the lessons are over; they are “friends” who enjoy meals, recreation and free time with their campers.

To learn more about the program, click on the links below:

General Information
The Erik Spindler Award
USA Summer Camp Photo Album
Applying