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Japan-United States Friendship Commission 2001-2002 Biennial Report

The Japan-United States Friendship Commission, an independent federal agency, supports training, 

education and information management to help prepare Americans to meet the challenges and 

opportunities in the US-Japan relationship of the 21st century. It works through providing grants to nonprofit entities in the following areas:

—Japanese Studies in the United States

—Public Affairs/Education

—The Study of the United States in Japan

—The Arts

A Message From 

The Chairman

I am pleased to present the Commission's Biennial Report for Fiscal Years 2001 and 2002.

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Japan-United States Friendship Commission 2001-2002 Biennial Report

Ten days after the horrific events of September 11, 2001, I attended my first meeting of the Japan-US Friendship 

Commission. In the weeks and months following 9/11, as America reassessed its position in the global community and 

prepared for a transition in its thinking and actions, a transition was also taking place at the Commission. 

Two-thirds of the Commission’s eighteen members changed in the period covered by this report, and I became 

Chairman on October 1, 2001. Over the past year, the new board has looked closely at the Commission’s mission with 

the aim of examining the challenges that face the bilateral relationship in a new global context. In this fluid world, how 

can the Commission address these challenges in a significant and timely fashion? While the base of expertise on Japan 

in the United States remains strong and meaningful, there are changes to the Commission’s guidelines that reflect the 

commissioners’ response to this new situation.

Chief among the changes is elimination of support for Policy Research and Infrastructure Building as separate 

categories. The Commission has not eliminated support for these fields per se; rather, it has incorporated support for 

these activities under its programs for Japanese Studies and the Study of the United States, as a way to emphasize its 

highest priority: the development and maintenance of area studies expertise on the societies, political economies and 

cultures of the United States and Japan and on the bilateral relationship.

As my friend and colleague Richard Wood – chairman in the first half of the period covered in this report – reported to 

you in the last biennial report, the Commission’s financial base remains stable. The Commission continues to receive 

more proposals worthy of support than it can afford to fund, and the issue of how to accommodate the broad range of 

high quality ventures remains a challenge for the current Board. It looks forward to this challenge in an era of 

increasingly diminished resources for US-Japan exchanges.

I would like to say a word about CULCON, a binational advisory panel to the US and Japanese governments that I 

chair concurrently with the Commission. While Richard Wood was still at the helm of the US CULCON Panel, 

CULCON held its twentieth plenary session in Los Angeles in May, 2001. The meeting represented a departure from 

CULCON's past in two important ways.

First, never before had a CULCON plenary session in the US been held outside of Washington, DC. The venue itself, 

the Japanese American National Museum, highlighted the theme of American cultural diversity that infused the 

proceedings. 

Second, CULCON agreed at the plenary session to push ahead further than it ever had before in developing a 

CULCON website as a teaching resource on US-Japan educational and cultural relations over the past fifty years. We 

look forward to our next CULCON plenary session in November, 2003 in Sendai, Japan with this level of 

implementation as a precedent.

Under the current leadership of Commissioner Patricia Steinhoff, an accomplished team at the University of Hawaii 

and a counterpart team in Japan are developing this project. Cross Currents, as it is known, is unique for many reasons, 

one of which is that it is a truly binational project, another of which is that it is creating a new field of scholarship in 

looking carefully at the junctures where interaction between the two cultures has had significant influence. 

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Japan Bridging Foundation. In 1993, CULCON set as its highest priority the goal of increasing the number of 

American undergraduates studying in Japan. While the Commission, in conjunction with its several counterpart 

funding organizations, helped organize administrative structures that would facilitate such exchanges, it could not 

directly address the core issue: the high cost of a year of study in Japan. The Commission does not provide individual 

fellowships or scholarships. 

Thus, in 1998 the Commission created the US-Japan Bridging Foundation, a private sector non-profit to raise funds for 

scholarships. It set as its goal a cash fund of $2M to help send a new wave of undergraduates to study in Japan. The 

Foundation has succeeded beyond our expectations. Thus far it has:

• Raised $1.8M for scholarships;

• Awarded 291 scholarships for US undergraduates to study in Japan;

• Garnered support from over 30 corporations, foundations, and individuals;

• Increased the goal from 400 to 500 scholarships awarded by setting a new target of $2.5M for its fundraising 

campaign;

• Obtained financial self-sufficiency from the Commission.

I would like to congratulate the Foundation and all the members of its board and staff who have worked so hard to 

achieve its successes to date.

In closing, I would like to thank the commissioners with whom I am working closely to effect change in the 

Commission, CULCON and the Bridging Foundation. I would also like to thank the Commission officers and staff for 

their outstanding job of managing the affairs of the Commission.

Richard J. Samuels

Chairman

February, 2003

The Commission, 2001-2002

The Board as of October 1, 2000

Chairman:

Dr. Richard J. Wood* ** 

President, United Board for Christian 

 Higher Education in Asia

Vice-Chairman:

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Mr. Glen S. Fukushima* ** 

President & CEO 

Cadence Design Systems, Japan

Members: 

Mr. Burnill F. Clark** 

President & CEO, KCTS TV, Seattle

Mr. Lawrence J. Ellison**

Chairman & CEO, Oracle Corporation

The Honorable William E. Ferris, Jr. 

Chairman, National Endowment for the 

 Humanities

The Honorable A. Lee Fritschler** 

Assistant Secretary of Education for Post- 

 Secondary Education

Dr. Carol Gluck* ** 

George Sansom Professor of Japanese 

 History 

Columbia University

The Honorable William Ivey 

Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts

Mr. Jeffrey M. Lepon* ** 

Managing Partner 

Lepon McCarthy White & Holzworth, PLLC

The Honorable Evelyn S. Lieberman* ** 

Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy 

 and Public Affairs

The Honorable Stanley Roth** 

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian 

 and Pacific Affairs

Mr. Thomas E. McLain** 

Partner, Sidley & Austin

The Honorable Frank H. Murkowski 

United States Senate

The Honorable Thomas Petri* 

United States House of Representatives

The Honorable John D. Rockefeller IV* 

United States Senate

Mr. George H. Takei** 

Actor/Writer

Mr. Ira Wolf** 

Office of Senator Max Baucus

The Honorable Robert Wise 

United States House of Representatives

Staff: 

Dr. Eric J. Gangloff 

Executive Director

Ms. Margaret P. Mihori 

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Assistant Executive Director

Ms. Pamela L. Fields

Assistant Executive Director, CULCON

Ms. Roberta S. Stewart 

Secretary

Head Office: 

1110 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 800 

Washington, DC 20005 

Tel (202) 418-9800 

Fax (202) 418-9802 

jusfc@jusfc.gov

www.jusfc.gov

Japan Liaison Office: 

c/o Program Office 

International House of Japan, Inc. 

11-16, Roppongi 5-chome 

Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032, Japan 

Tel (03) 3470-4611

*Members of the Executive Committee 

**Members of the US CULCON Panel

The Board as of October 1, 2001

Chairman:

Dr. Richard J. Samuels* ** 

Ford International Professor of Political 

 Science 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Vice-Chairman:

Dr. Amy V. Heinrich* ** 

Director, CV Starr East Asian Library 

Columbia University

Members: 

The Honorable Bruce Cole 

Chairman, National Endowment for the 

 Humanities

Dr. Richard E. Dyck** 

President, TCS Japan, KK

The Honorable Patricia De Stacy Harrison* ** 

Assistant Secretary of State for Educational 

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 and Cultural Affairs

The Honorable James A. Kelly** 

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and 

 Pacific Affairs

Dr. Linda K. Kerber* ** 

May Brodbeck Professor in Liberal Arts 

The University of Iowa

Mr. Theodore R. “Regge” Life, Jr. * ** 

Filmmaker

Ms. Doris O. Matsui** 

Senior Advisor, Collier, Shannon Scott PLLC

The Honorable James McDermott 

United States House of Representatives

The Honorable Frank H. Murkowski 

United States Senate

The Honorable Thomas E. Petri* 

United States House of Representatives

The Honorable John D. Rockefeller, IV* 

United States Senate

Mr. Francis Y. Sogi** 

Life Partner, Kelley Drye & Warren

Mr. Frank P. Stanek** 

President, International Business Development 

 Universal Studios Recreation Group 

Universal Studios

Dr. Patricia G. Steinhoff** 

Department of Sociology 

University of Hawaii

The Honorable Sally Stroup** 

Assistant Secretary of Education for Post- 

 Secondary Education

Chairman 

National Endowment for the Arts

Staff: 

Dr. Eric J. Gangloff 

Executive Director

Ms. Margaret P. Mihori 

Assistant Executive Director

Ms. Pamela L. Fields

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Assistant Executive Director, CULCON

Ms. Sylvia L. Dandridge

Secretary

Head Office: 

1110 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 800 

Washington, DC 20005 

Tel (202) 418-9800 

Fax (202) 418-9802 

jusfc@jusfc.gov

www.jusfc.gov

Japan Liaison Office: 

c/o Program Office 

International House of Japan, Inc. 

11-16, Roppongi 5-chome 

Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032, Japan 

Tel (03) 3470-4611

*Members of the Executive Committee 

**Members of the US CULCON Panel

The Japan-US Friendship Commission in 2001-2002

The Japan-United States Friendship Commission (“JUSFC”; “Commission”) is pleased to submit this report on its twenty-fifth and 

twenty-sixth years of operations for the period October 1, 2000 to September 30, 2002, which corresponds to the federal Fiscal 

Years 2001 and 2002.

Background and Overview

The JUSFC is an independent federal agency, dedicated to providing opportunities for research, training, education and exchange 

between the United States and Japan. In passing the Japan-United States Friendship Act (PL 94-118) in 1975 to establish the 

Commission, Congress acknowledged the unique character and great importance of the relationship between Japan and the United 

States, and in particular the need to strengthen its foundation through educational and cultural exchange programs at the people-topeople level. It was searching for the means to develop the knowledge, the leaders and the friendly associations that in turn would 

improve the likelihood that any problems that might arise on the national level could be resolved on a basis of mutual 

understanding and respect.

Thus the Congress established the Commission, a unique federal agency in that its purpose is to promote understanding with a 

single foreign country. In the Friendship Act, Congress also appropriated the Japan-United States Friendship Trust Fund, an 

endowment denominated in both yen and dollars with a combined value of approximately $36M at the exchange rate then in effect. 

These two funds represented a portion of the money paid by Japan to compensate the United States for post-World War II 

assistance, and for certain public facilities on Okinawa at the time of the reversion of the Ryukyus. The former payment became

the yen fund, and the latter the dollar fund. The Commission was authorized to invest the Fund in government obligations, and to 

expend the interest earnings, subject to annual appropriation, and up to five percent annually of the principal of the Fund to carry 

out the purposes of the Act. In 1982, the Act was amended to permit the Commission to invest any gifts it may receive and to 

spend the principal and interest earnings from gifts without reference to the appropriations process. The Act was amended again in 

1998 to make the dollar and yen funds interchangeable at the Commission's discretion, allowing it to seek the highest return on its 

investments in government obligations in either or both of the two countries.

Although governmental, the Commission operates much like a private foundation. It is composed of a board of eighteen 

commissioners and a permanent staff of four officers. The Board is divided equally between nine senior representatives of the 

United States government from the legislative and executive branches, and nine private citizens, including the chairman. Of these 

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eighteen, twelve members, including the private citizens and the representatives from the Departments of State and Education, 

serve ex officio on the Commission by virtue of their appointment to CULCON, a binational advisory board to the two governments 

in educational and cultural affairs. The Board's responsibility is to manage the Trust Fund by investing it and using the proceeds to 

make grants to institutions in the United States and Japan to develop programs of education and exchange.

The JUSFC mission remains as valid now as when it was established. The relationship between Japan and the United States is 

unique in sheer size, in its variety and complexity, and in its mixture of cooperation and competition, friendship and rivalry. That 

relationship, however, stands on the cusp of change.

The regional and global environments that surround and condition the bilateral relationship are in the process of restructuring. 

Globalzation has changed the terms of international trade, and this has in turn impacted the core concerns of US-Japan trade and

economic relations permanently. The consequences of this new global economic environment are still unknown. International 

terrorism is even now in the process of changing the terms of global security. This again has profound implications for US-Japan 

security and political relations that are only now beginning to be identified. The new global environment has forced both nations to 

examine anew the fundamental character of bilateral economic, security and political ties and to reassess their optimal management.

The history of the past fifty years demonstrates that the United States and Japan have much in common in terms of broad national

objectives. In the short term, however, each nation has its own objectives and concerns, and identification with each other’s 

objectives and concerns has become more difficult in the new global environment. Moreover, the record of the past fifty years 

shows that differences in thought patterns, value systems, social and economic behavior, decision-making processes and means of 

communication can readily lead to mutual misunderstanding and friction. There is above all a language barrier that all too often 

forces each nation to react to the other through stereotypes. There is a severe imbalance in the amount of attention that the media in 

the two countries devote to each other. There is, moreover, growing recognition that many of the problems that exist and persist in 

the relationship are not amenable to easy solutions occasioned by enhanced cultural understanding. We need greater knowledge of

the character and causes of these problems, leading to mutual deliberation and wise policy. Clearly, we need new ways of thinking 

about management of the relationship. It is the Commission’s purpose to help make available the expertise and information 

necessary both for productive deliberation and effective policy.

The Commission today has a new sense of purpose and a more focused program of activity to meet the conditions both of its 

financial management and of the bilateral relationship. It asks that the projects it supports take cognizance of the new relationship 

and each in its own way contribute back to the public good that Congress envisioned and sought to embody in PL 94-118.

Program Highlights

1. Japanese Studies in the United States

The Commission pursues as its fundamental mandate the promotion of expertise on Japan throughout the American public. Its 

primary means of accomplishing this goal is through the maintenance of the vitality of Japanese studies in institutions of American 

higher education and associated professional organizations. Thus, as has been the case in previous years, Japanese studies in the 

United States remained the largest single category of Commission support in this period.

To help support basic research in the field, the Commission continued its practice in both fiscal years of making block grants to the 

Social Science Research Council and the Northeast Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies. These two organizations 

provide support from the Commission’s grants to individual research projects on the contemporary Japanese political economy and 

society, selected through peer review. In support of Japanese language library collections and information management, the 

Commission continued its support of the North American Coordinating Council for Japanese Library Resources (NCC). In support 

of advanced Japanese language training, the Commission continued to provide major support to the Interuniversity Center for 

Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama. In addition, it made a second grant to the Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ) in 

FY 2001 to complete a two-year assessment of the state of advanced Japanese language training available to American university 

students. Also, it continued to support the Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japanese in both years. This new coordinating 

structure will help create a seamless transition of Japanese language study from the K-12 level into the university as its work 

progresses, as well as a unified Japanese language standard. In support of this latter effort, the Commission made a grant to the 

University of Oregon in FY 2002 to help support the effort to create a national proficiency exam for high schools students wishing 

to continue their study of the Japanese language in college.

The close relationship between the Commission and CULCON has also led to a high degree of coordination between Commission 

support in Japanese studies and CULCON priorities. In the two fiscal years under report, the most significant expressions of this 

close coordination were the Commission's continued support of administration of the Bridging Project Clearinghouse inside the 

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kind support for the US-Japan Bridging Foundation, which serves to raise funds to help send more US undergraduates to study in 

Japan, a long-standing CULCON priority.

2. The Study of the United States in Japan

This category, perhaps more than any other in the period under report, demonstrates the Commission's new sense of activism in 

shaping programs to its own interest and specifications. During this period the Commission continued its long-standing support of 

a program of exchanges between members of the American Studies Association of the United States and of the Japanese 

Association of American Studies, as well as between members of the Organization of American Historians and their colleagues in 

Japan, and the Economic History Association and their colleagues in Japan. Through these programs, designed by the Commission 

itself, it aims to achieve two goals: first, to expand opportunities for Japanese academics and graduate students to interact with 

colleagues from the United States and develop networks for future research and exchange; and second, to help further the process

of the internationalization of American studies in the United States.

Senior figures in the field of the Study of the United States in Japan have continued to express their concern to the Commission that 

their highest priority lies in the support of graduate students entering the field in Japan, and the nurturing of a new generation to 

take their place as the current generation of specialists at Japanese universities begins to retire. The Commission studied the issue 

in consultation with experts both in the United States and in Japan and then worked with the Graduate School for American Studies 

at Doshisha University in Kyoto to devise a national competition for Japanese students of American studies for funds to support of 

their field research in the United States. The Commission funded a pilot program for this effort in FY 2002 and looks forward to its 

success, as well as similar developments in the future.

3. Policy-Oriented Research

Since the mid-1980s, the Commission has made a concerted effort to take an active stance vis-à-vis the US-Japan relationship and

the serious policy challenges facing both countries in learning to manage that relationship more effectively. It has done this by 

giving support to policy research projects dealing with a broad range of topics: economic, political and security relations with 

Japan, to begin with, as well as the political economy of Japan, its international relations and social policy.

Readers will find a wide range of subject matters covered in the Commission’s support of policy research in FY 2001 and FY 2002,

as well as distribution of support across a broad range of research organizations. Of particular interest were two two-year projects 

funded over the two fiscal years in this period, one on the new regional and global environment of US-Japan security and economic 

relations, and the other, a binational study group on ways in which the United States and Japan can cooperate in international arms 

control and nuclear non-proliferation. The former grant demonstrates the Commission’s commitment to exploring the magnitude of 

change in the global environment that effective management of the bilateral relationship must now take into account. The latter

supports work of an advisory group to a binational commission established by the US and Japanese governments to implement 

more effective cooperation in the field of non-proliferation.

In sponsoring policy research projects the Commission intends that the results of these research efforts be pertinent to policymakers 

concerned with Japan in the Congress, the executive branch, various think tanks, academe and the media. It also bases 

consideration of support of proposals on the degree to which the project directors can assure the Commission of a solid 

dissemination plan to take the results of the research to those most concerned with policies that guide US management of the 

bilateral relationship. In the future, the Commission will place more emphasis on the degree of expertise on Japan and Japanrelated skills and training that the organizers of potential research projects bring with them in their proposals to the Commission.

4. Public Affairs/Education

In this category, the Commission endeavors to meet the growing demand for information on Japan throughout the United States. It

emphasizes projects that provide education and information both to selected groups of political and professional leadership, and to 

the American public at large. These projects fall under two headings: Counterpart Exchanges and Media.

In the area of counterpart exchanges, the Commission continued to give highest priority to legislative exchange programs between

the United States and Japan in FY 2001 and FY 2002. These included the US-Japan Economic Agenda Legislative Exchange 

Program at The George Washington University for meetings between members of the Japanese Diet and US Congress, the United 

States Association of Former Members of Congress for the Congressional Study Group on Japan, and the Congressional Economic 

Leadership Institute for support of study tours of Japan by Members of Congress and their staff. In the future, the Commission will 

seek to expand its support of counterpart exchanges to include a broad array of professional groups and interests.

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Through its close ties to CULCON, the Commission began support of a binational effort to create a website of the history of the 

past fifty years of US-Japan educational and cultural exchange and interaction. Known as Cross Currents, this site will provide a 

rich array of multimedia resources that document that history and offers appropriate teaching guides for students in grades 7-16. 

Previewed at CULCON XX in Los Angeles in May, 2001, the first installment of the site will be unveiled at the next plenary 

session of CULCON in Japan in November, 2003. In support of that work, the Commission made a grant to the University of 

Hawaii in FY 2002 for the development of Cross Currents.

In FY 2001 the Commission helped launch the Japan-US Forum at the National Bureau of Asian Research, a public on-line forum 

on Japan and bilateral US-Japan relations. This pilot project proved extremely successful, and the Commission has continued its

support of this effort through FY 2002 and beyond.

5. The Arts

The Commission continues to support projects in the arts of the highest merit, in the firm belief that art is one of the most effective 

means of fostering better understanding between the two countries. It recognizes that it must take an increasingly selective 

approach to funding in this field, given financial pressures in other program areas. Thus beginning in FY 1999, the Commission set 

as its priority in the arts support for projects to send American exhibitions and performing arts to Japan.

Presentation of American arts and artists, especially at venues outside Tokyo, does not have a well-established history. While the 

Commission worked to implement this priority directly through its own efforts in the two years under consideration, it also worked 

closely with the National Endowment for the Arts to design a structure under the Commission’s Infrastructure Building program 

that would take on the work of facilitating the presentation of American art in Japan. Thus, in FY 2002 the Commission made a 

grant to Arts Midwest to establish the Cultural Trade Network, an office inside Arts Midwest devoted to this purpose. The pilot

program proved successful, and the Commission continued to support it in the next year with the expectation that it would help not 

only increase the flow of American performing art to Japan, but also help leverage funding from state and local sources to support 

the costs of such exchanges.

In FY 2001 and FY 2002 the Commission continued to work closely with the National Endowment for the Arts and the Japanese 

Agency for Cultural Affairs in sponsoring the US-Japan Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship Program. The five Fellows spend 

six months in Japan, immersed in Japanese culture and its manifestations in their particular fields and training in the arts. In 

addition, the Commission continued to provide support to the International House of Japan to hire an expert to facilitate the 

program on site. In FY 2002, the Commission provided a second grant to the International House to upgrade the program by adding 

a fund for resident Fellows to use for collaborative projects while they are in Japan.

In 2001, the Creative Artist Exchange Fellowship Program received generous support from the Freeman Foundation of Vermont 

through a grant to the US-Japan Bridging Foundation to support two additional artists for the 2002 Program, as well as significantly 

enhance facilitative services in Japan.

6. CULCON

CULCON (the US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange), a bi-national advisory panel to the governments of 

the United States and of Japan, serves to focus official and public attention in both countries on the vital cultural and educational 

underpinnings of the bilateral relationship. Its origins lie in discussions held in 1961 between President John F. Kennedy and Prime 

Minister Hayato Ikeda.

Beginning in 1978, CULCON became a program of the United States Information Agency, reverting to Department of State 

oversight with the consolidation of foreign affairs agencies in 1999. In 1991, permanent secretariats were established in Tokyo and 

Washington to provide continuity to CULCON activities. The US Secretariat was established inside the Commission. Since 1991, 

US CULCON has become a highly visible, proactive organization, emphasizing the implementation of CULCON 

recommendations, frequently with the Commission’s professional and financial support.

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In the 1990s, CULCON activity focused on two primary working groups: undergraduate educational exchange and information 

access. There also was considerable activity in media cooperation. Breaking with precedent, CULCON held its nineteenth plenary

session outside Tokyo and Washington, in Naha, Okinawa in February, 1999 and then its twentieth session in Los Angeles in 2001. 

CULCON XX provided the opportunity to review the work of the Digital Culture Working Group, the current highest priority of 

CULCON, helping it harness the power of the Internet to its mission of improving educational and cultural relations between the 

two countries.

Support for this Working Group has been provided by the Commission in the form of the grant to University of Hawaii to develop 

Cross Currents, as previously described. This and several other important CULCON initiatives have provided the impetus for 

much of the Commission’s new activism in shaping the projects that it supports. The record of this new cooperation between the 

two entities is found in the narrative of the Commission’s grant-making activities in 2001 and 2002 above.

NOTE: In the listings below, in many cases Commission support met only partial costs of the total project. Readers interested in full descriptions 

of the following projects may refer to the Commission’s web site at www.jusfc.gov, where links are available to individual project sites, or may 

consult with the Commission staff.

Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2001

October 1, 2000 - September 30, 2001

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

A. JAPANESE STUDIES IN THE UNITED 

STATES

Faculty and Curriculum Development

 1. Japan Studies Association – for support of 

“Integrating Japanese Studies into the US 

Curriculum: A Model for 'Stage II' Faculty 

Development” 

68,483

 2. The University of Pennsylvania – for support 

of “The 2001 Faculty and Curriculum 

Development Seminar on Japan” 

143,500

Language

 3. Alliance of Associations of Teachers of 

Japanese – for support of “Staff, 

Infrastructure, and Project Support for the 

Alliance of Associations of Teachers of 

Japanese” 

83,000

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 4. Alliance of Associations of Teachers of 

Japanese – for support of Year Two of 

“Assessment of Advanced Japanese Language 

Training” 

153,156

 5. Stanford University, for the Interuniversity 

Center for Japanese Language Studies in 

Yokohama – for advanced Japanese language 

training for American graduate students 

40,000,000

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

Libraries

6. North American Coordinating Council on 

Japanese Library Resources – for support of 

“Infrastructural Support for the North 

American Coordinating Council on Japanese 

Library Resources, for Fiscal Year 2001-

2002” 

63,750 10,000,000

Professional Studies

 7. Columbia University, The Donald Keene 

Center of Japanese Culture – for support of 

“The Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize 

for the Translation of Japanese Literature”

19,617

Research

 8. Association for Asian Studies, Inc. – for support 

of “NEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese Studies”

67,792 3,600,000

 9. Social Science Research Council – for support 

of “Grants for Advanced Research on Japan”

82,500 6,000,000

Student Exchanges

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10. Association of Teachers of Japanese – for 

support of “The Bridging Project 

Clearinghouse to Encourage Study Abroad in 

Japan by American Undergraduate Students”

81,483

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN 

THE UNITED STATES $763,281 ¥59,600,000 

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

B. THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES IN 

JAPAN

Faculty and Curriculum Development

 1. American Studies Association – for support of 

Year Three of “Japan-United States Dialogues 

Across the Pacific: Globalization and 

American Studies” 

4,000 1,050,000

 2. Economic Historians Association – for 

support of Year One of “Building Economic 

History Bridges between Japan and the United 

States” 

7,870 2,061,600

 3. Organization of American Historians – for 

support of “JAAS/OAH Historians' 

Collaborative Project”

14,938 2,507,460

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE UNITED 

STATES IN JAPAN $26,808 ¥5,619,060

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

C. POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH

 1. The American Enterprise Institute – for 

support of “National Financial Reform and 

Restructuring in Japan and America” 

30,000

 2. Economic Strategy Institute – for support of 

the project “A US-Japan Free Trade 

Agreement”

50,000

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 3. The Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs – for 

support of “Rural Health Care in Japan and the 

United States: Shared Challenges and 

Solutions” 

56,231

 4. The Monterey Institute – for support of Year 

One of “US-Japan Non-Governmental 

Cooperation on International Arms Control 

and Nonproliferation”

50,014

 5. Purdue University – for support of “The 

Politics of Telecommunication Regulation” 

and “Supporting Families, Supporting 

Fertility”

41,019

 6. University of Washington – for support of 

Year One of “Beyond Bilateralism: USJapanese Cooperation and Competition in 

Asia” 

41,629

TOTAL FOR POLICY-ORIENTED 

RESEARCH

$268,893 ¥0

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

D. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

Outreach 

1. National Association of Japan-America 

Societies – for support of “2020 Vision: A 

Digital Road Map for Policies and Priorities in 

the US-Japan Relationship for the 21st

Century” 

36,812

Counterpart Exchanges

 2. Congressional Economic Leadership Institute

– for support of “2001 US-Japan Educational 

Exchange Program”

80,000

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 3. The George Washington University – for 

support of “GWU US-Japan Economic 

Agenda Legislative Exchange Program for 

2001”

65,827

 4. International House of Japan – for services 

for American educational, cultural and 

professional institutions in 2001

8,500,000

 5. US Association of Former Members of 

Congress – for support of “Congressional 

Study Group on Japan” 

31,533

Media and Dissemination

6. National Association of Japan-America 

Societies – for support to update “On the 

Record” 

5,000

7. National Bureau of Asian Research – for 

support of “Japan-US Discussion Forum” 

34,273

8. New York Foundation for the Arts – for 

support of the documentary film Enmyoin

25,000

9. San Diego State University – for support of 

“Digital Culture Resource Project”

1,950

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/

EDUCATION

$280,395 ¥8,500,000

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

E. THE ARTS 

 1. Exchange Fellowships for Creative Artists – 

jointly sponsored program funded by the 

JUSFC and the US National Endowment for the 

Arts. The funds devoted to this program 

include $75,000 received from the National 

Endowment for the Arts. Grant funds for the 

artists in FY 2001 were administered in Japan 

for the Commission by the International House 

of Japan, Inc. 

20,554 5,200,000

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Artists sponsored under the exchange 

fellowships:

Henri Cole

Richard Hawkins

James Luna

Rahna Rizzuto

Brenda Shaughnessy

American Performances/Exhibitions in Japan 

 2. Opera Theatre of St. Louis – for support of 

“The Tale of Genji, An Invitation to Japan” 

50,000

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $70,554 ¥5,200,000

Commission Program Totals

As of September 30, 2001

Japanese Studies in the United States $ 763,281 ¥ 59,600,000

The Study of the United States in Japan 26,808 5,619,060

Policy-Oriented Research 268,893 0

Public Affairs/Education 280,395 8,500,000

The Arts 70,554 5,200,000

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS $1,409,931 ¥78,919,060

CULCON Activities 

Funded by Transfer from US Department of State

Undergraduate Educational Exchange Oversight 

 Committee

$ 1,000

Information Access Working Group 2,200

Digital Culture Working Group 14,160

CULCON XX Plenary Session 39,850

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES $57,210

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2001

As of September 30, 2001

Personnel $373,246

General Services Administration for Payroll, 

 Accounting and Other Services

43,800

Office Space 61,422

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Travel 26,426

Communications 9,456

Printing, Supplies, Publications 7,415

Equipment 0

Other 32,404

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION ADMINISTRATIVE 

COSTS

$554,169

Fundraising Expenses of the Commission in FY 2001

Travel 2,310

Communications 1,000

Consultant fee 3,500

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION FUNDRAISING 

COSTS

$6,810

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2001

Personnel $109,119

Communications 200

Supplies 200

Other 200

TOTAL FOR CULCON ADMINISTRATIVE 

COSTS

$109,719

Appropriated Dollar Fund Income and Expense Statement

Fiscal Year 2001 (10-1-00 through 9-30-01)

INCOME 

Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,799,520

Refunds on Grants 50,000

Received from the National Endowment for the

 Arts 75,000

Received from the US Department of State for

 CULCON support 166,929

TOTAL INCOME $3,091,449

EXPENSES 

Commission Dollar Grants $1,409,931

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Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants 680,373

Commission Administration 554,169

Fundraising Expenses 6,810

CULCON Activities 57,210

CULCON Administration 109,719

TOTAL EXPENSES $2,818,212

GAIN OR (LOSS) $273,237

Appropriated Dollar Fund Balance

Fiscal Year 2001 (10-1-00 through 9-30-01)

Original Appropriation, 1-1-76 $18,000,000

Fund Balance, 9-30-00 43,929,294

Income or (loss) 273,237

BALANCE, 9-30-01 $44,202,531

Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 2001 (10-1-00 through 9-30-01)

Balance, 9-30-00 $5,613

Grants 0

Administrative Expenses

Contributions

2,355

0

Refunds on Grants 0

BALANCE, 9-30-01 $3,258

Bridging Project Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 2001 (10-1-00 through 9-30-01)

Balance, 9-30-00 $7

Cash/Par 0

Contributions 0

Grants 0

Administrative Expenses 7

Interest 0

BALANCE, 9-30-01 $0

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NOTE: In the listings below, in many cases Commission support met only partial costs of the total project. Readers interested in full descriptions 

of the following projects may refer to the Commission’s web site at www.jusfc.gov, where links are available to individual project sites, or may 

consult with the Commission staff.

Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2002

October 1, 2001 - September 30, 2002

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

A. JAPANESE STUDIES IN THE UNITED 

STATES

Language

 1. Alliance of Associations of Teachers of 

Japanese – for support of “Staff and 

Infrastructure Support for Alliance of 

Associations of Teachers of Japanese”

86,880

 2. Stanford University, for the Interuniversity 

Center for Japanese Language Studies in 

Yokohama – for advanced Japanese language 

training for American graduate students

40,000,000

 3. University of Oregon, Center for Applied 

Second Language Studies – for support of 

“The Standards-based Measurement of 

Proficiency Project”

55,000

Libraries

 4. North American Coordinating Council on 

Japanese Library Resources – for support of 

“Infrastructual Support for the North 

American Coordinating Council on Japanese 

Library Resources, for Fiscal Year 2002-2003”

63,750 10,000,000

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

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Professional Studies

 5. Columbia University, The Donald Keene 

Center of Japanese Culture – for support of 

“The Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize 

for the Translation of Japanese Literature” for 

FY 2002 and FY 2003.

40,997

Research

 6. Association for Asian Studies, Inc. – for support 

of “NEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese Studies”

67,792 3,600,000

 7. Social Science Research Council – for support 

of “Grants for Advanced Research on Japan”

85,000 6,000,000

 8. Social Science Research Council – for support 

of “Junior Scholars' Workshop on the 

Embedded Enterprise in Comparative 

Perspective”

14,414

9. University of Michigan – for support of “The 

Way Some Japanese Live Now”

5,000

Student Exchange

10. Association of Teachers of Japanese – for 

support of “Staff and Infrastructure Support for 

Alliance of Associations of Teachers of 

Japanese”

77,160

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN 

THE UNITED STATES $495,993 ¥59,600,000

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

B. THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES IN 

JAPAN

Faculty and Curriculum Development

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 1. American Studies Association – for support of 

Year One of “Japan-United States Dialogues 

Across the Pacific: New Dimensions of 

American Studies – ‘Technology and Society’ 

and ‘Citizenship and Participation’ ”

12,020 1,050,000

 2. Economic Historians Association – for 

support of Year Two of “Building Economic 

History Bridges between Japan and the United 

States”

18,375 1,586,812

 3. Organization of American Historians – for 

support of “JAAS/OAH Historians’ 

Collaborative Project”

24,583 2,643,448

Other

 4. Doshisha University, Graduate School of 

American Studies – for support of “A Pilot 

Research Grant Program for MA Students in 

American Studies”

2,000,000

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE UNITED 

STATES IN JAPAN $54,978 ¥7,280,260

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

C. POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH

 1. The Monterey Institute – for support of Year 

Two of “US-Japan Non-Governmental 

Cooperation on International Arms Control 

and Nonproliferation”

50,014

 2. Pacific Forum CSIS – for support of 

“United States, Japan and China: 

Developing Stable Trilateral Ties”

23,719

 3. Purdue University – for support of 

“Supporting Families, Supporting Fertility”

10,293

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 4. University of California, San Diego – for 

support of Year Two of “Beyond 

Bilateralism: US-Japanese Cooperation and 

Competition in Asia”

48,644

 5. University of Hawai’i – for support of 

“Institutional Change in Japan: How it 

Affects Economic Reform”

37,187

TOTAL FOR POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH $169,857 ¥0

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

D. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

Outreach 

 1. The Japanese American National Museum – 

for support of “From Obento to Mixed Plate: 

Americans of Japanese Ancestry in 

Multicultural Hawai’i”

50,000

 2. National Association of Japan-America 

Societies – for support of “Second Annual 

State of the US-Japan Relationship Report”

10,345

Counterpart Exchanges

 3. Congressional Economic Leadership Institute

– for support of “2002 Congressional Staff 

Educational Exchange Program”

85,595

 4. The George Washington University – for 

support of “GWU US-Japan Economic 

Agenda Legislative Exchange Programs” for 

2001 and 2002

198,092 1,875,000

 5. International House of Japan – for services 

for American educational, cultural and 

professional institutions in 2002

8,500,000

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 6. US Association of Former Members of 

Congress – for support of “The Congressional 

Study Group on Japan”

31,591

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

Media and Dissemination

7. Catticus Corporation – for support of the 

documentary film Sumo East and West

2,030

8. National Bureau of Asian Research – for 

support of “Japan-US Discussion Forum”

25,910

9. New York Foundation for the Arts – for support 

of the documentary film Enmyoin

25,000

10. University of Hawaii – for support of “CrossCurrents – Phase I”

23,000

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION $451,563 ¥10,375,000

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

E. THE ARTS

 1. Exchange Fellowships for Creative Artists – 

jointly sponsored program funded by the 

JUSFC and the US National Endowment for the 

Arts. The funds devoted to this program 

include $75,000 received from the National 

Endowment for the Arts. Grant funds for the 

artists in FY 2002 were administered in Japan 

for the Commission by the International House 

of Japan, Inc. Yen funds for FY 2002 include 

funds for collaborative projects carried out in 

Japan by the Creative Artist Fellows.

23,973 23,635,436

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Additional funds were provided by the Freeman 

Foundation to the US-Japan Bridging 

Foundation to allow the 2002 Program to 

expand to seven fellows and to enhance 

facilitative services in Japan. 

Artists sponsored under the exchange 

fellowships:

Sayed Alavi

Kenneth Fries

Elizabeth Mead

Nandlal Nayak

Robert Pyzocha

Lisa Vice

Perry Yung

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

American Performances/Exhibitions in Japan

 2. Goh Productions – for support of “Reverse 

Psychology: Japan”

30,000

 3. Triton Arts Network – for support of “Good Old 

Days: from the American Renaissance to the 

Jazz Age”

1,090,000

Other

 4. Arts Midwest – for support of “United States 

Cultural Trade Network”

65,425

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $119,398 ¥24,725,436

Commission Program Totals

As of September 30, 2002

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Japanese Studies in the United States $495,993 ¥59,600,000

The Study of the United States in Japan 54,978 7,280,260

Policy-Oriented Research 169,857 0

Public Affairs/Education 451,563 10,375,000

The Arts 119,398 24,725,436

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS $1,291,789 ¥101,980,696

CULCON Activities 

Funded by Transfer from US Department of State

Cross Currents $20,000

Digital Culture Working Group 17,400

Information Access Working Group 500

Undergraduate Exchange Oversight Committee 1,000

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES $38,900

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2002

As of September 30, 2002

Personnel $374,000

General Services Administration 

for Payroll, 

 Accounting and Other Services

44,000

Office Space 72,000

Travel 27,600

Communications 14,280

Printing, Supplies, Publications 3,000

Equipment 320

Other 45,400

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

$580,600

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2002

Personnel $112,421

Communications 200

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Supplies 200

Other 200

TOTAL FOR CULCON ADMINISTRATIVE 

COSTS

$113,021

Appropriated Dollar Fund Income and Expense Statement 

Fiscal Year 2002 (10-1-01 through 9-30-02)

INCOME

Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,731,455

Refunds on Grants 46,057

Received from the US National Endowment for 

the Arts 75,000

Received from US Department of State for 

CULCON support 151,921

TOTAL INCOME $3,004,433

EXPENSES

Commission Dollar Grants $1,291,789

Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants 793,624

Commission Administration 580,600

CULCON Activities 38,900

CULCON Administration 113,021

TOTAL EXPENSES $2,817,934

GAIN OR (LOSS) $186,499

Appropriated Dollar Fund Balance

Fiscal Year 2002 (10-1-01 through 9-30-02)

Original Appropriation, 1-1-76 $18,000,000

Fund Balance, 9-30-01 44,202,531

Income or (loss) 186,499

BALANCE, 9-30-02 $44,389,030

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Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 2002 (10-1-01 through 9-30-02)

Balance, 9-30-01 $3,258

Grants 0

Administrative Expenses 2,398

Contributions 3,159

Refunds on Grants 0

BALANCE, 9-30-02 $4,019

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