On Aug. 6, eBay Inc. hosted 300 high school students from the area of Japan affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed about 20,000 people. The students’ visit was part of a three-week leadership development summer program based at the University of California, Berkeley, that is sponsored by the Japanese company Softbank. Softbank’s…

Verenice Bravo of San Jose, an integrative biology student at the University of California, Berkeley, recently got the opportunity of her young life: She traveled to Yokohama, Japan, in June to present her research on stem cells to an international conference of stem cell experts. And it wouldn’t have happened without eBay Inc. and the…