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Japan-United States Friendship Commission 2003-2004 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 non-profit entities in the following 

areas:

—Japanese Studies in the United States

—Public Affairs/Education

—The Study of the United States in Japan

—The Arts

The Commission, 2003-2004

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 Dana Gioia

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Chairman 

National Endowment for the Arts

The Honorable Patricia De Stacy Harrison* ** 

Assistant Secretary of State for Educational 

 and Cultural Affairs 

US Department of State

The Honorable James A. Kelly** 

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian 

 and Pacific Affairs 

US Department of State

Dr. Linda K. Kerber* ** 

May Brodbeck Professor in Liberal Arts 

University of Iowa

Mr. Theodore R. •gRegge•h Life, Jr. * ** 

Filmmaker

Ms. Doris O. Matsui** 

Senior Advisor 

Collier, Shannon Scott PLLC

The Honorable James McDermott 

United States House of Representatives

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 

Stanek Global Advisors

Dr. Patricia G. Steinhoff** 

Professor 

Department of Sociology 

University of Hawai•fi

The Honorable Sally Stroup** 

Assistant Secretary of Education for Post- 

 Secondary Education 

US Department of Education

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. Sylvia L. Dandridge

Secretary

*Members of the Executive Committee 

**Members of the US CULCON Panel

A Message from the Chairman

I am pleased to present the Japan-US Friendship Commission•fs biennial report for Fiscal Years 2003 

and 2004.

During the period of this report, the Commission streamlined its programs into four categories and 

began the practice of offering three-year grants to selected grantees. By offering three-year grants, the 

Commission hopes to reduce administrative burdens on the thinly-stretched staffs of the non-profit 

institutions that it supports. Also, the Commission aims to help these institutions embark on longerterm planning and acquire greater leverage in approaching other sources of support.

Among the institutions supported by the Commission during this period, none is more important than 

the International House of Japan, a •ghome-away-from-home•h for many scholars visiting Japan. The 

•gI-House•h is undergoing renovation of its facility and restructuring of its programs. It also underwent 

a change in leadership in 2004, when Dr. Motoo Kaji stepped down, and Mr. Takasu Takagaki 

succeeded him as chairman of the board. The I-House is an institution with perhaps the longest history 

of support among our grantees, and we are pleased to work closely with Mr. Takagaki during this 

transition.

In November, 2003, CULCON, closely related to the Commission, held its twenty-first plenary session 

at Sendai, Japan. The session was highlighted by the presentation of Cross Currents, a CULCONinspired website and teaching tool devoted to mutual influences among Japanese and American 

educational, cultural, artistic and social institutions of the past fifty years. I encourage you to visit it at 

www.crosscurrents.hawaii.edu. In addition, CULCON adopted as its next focus the development of 

global awareness in the emerging generation of US-Japan leaders.

Finally, I am pleased to report that the US-Japan Bridging Foundation, inspired by CULCON and 

established by the Commission to raise scholarships for American undergraduates in Japan, surpassed 

its original goal of $2,000,000 in 2004 under the chairmanship of Dr. Richard J. Wood. It also 

surpassed its original goal of sending 500 students to study for semester- or year-long periods in Japan. 

The number of students applying for scholarships continues to exceed five applicants for every 

scholarship. The quality of applications remains high. The Foundation could easily double its 

fundraising activity and still not fulfill the demand. I remain highly optimistic about the visibility and 

desirability of Japan as a target for young Americans•f study and exchange in the years to come.

I would like to thank the board members with whom I have worked closely to effect meaningful change 

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

staff for their outstanding job of managing the affairs of these organizations.

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Richard J. Samuels

Chairman

February, 2005

The Japan-US Friendship Commission in 2003-2004

The Japan-United States Friendship Commission (•gCommission•h) is pleased to submit this 

report on its twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth years of operations for the period October 1, 2002 

to September 30, 2004, which corresponds to the federal Fiscal Years 2003 and 2004.

Background and Overview

The Japan-US Friendship Commission is an independent federal agency, dedicated to providing 

support 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 importance of the relation-ship between Japan 

and the United States, and in particular the need to strengthen its foundation through educational 

and cultural exchange. It was searching for a means to develop the knowledge, the leaders and the 

friendly associations that in turn would increase the likelihood that any problems arising at the 

national level could be resolved on a basis of mutual under-standing 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 

established 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 Trust 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, allowing the Commission 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 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 bi-national 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 Commission•fs mission remains as valid now as when it was established. The relationship 

between Japan and the United States is unique in its 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. Globalization 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 and the emergence of China as a great power are changing the terms of global security. 

This again has profound implications for US-Japan security and political relations that continue to 

evolve. 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 

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management.

The history of the past sixty 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•fs objectives and concerns has become 

more difficult in the new global environment. Moreover, the record of the past sixty years shows 

that differences in thought patterns, value systems, social and economic behavior, decision-making 

processes and means of communication can 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 alone. We need greater knowledge of the character and causes of 

these problems – knowledge that might help us craft more effective policy in our management of 

the bilateral relationship. It is the Commission•fs primary purpose to help generate and 

disseminate new knowledge and insight, based on the results of rigorous, independent, scholarly 

research, that will help shape and inform each country•fs understanding of the other, both inside 

and outside the academy, leading in the Commission•fs view to a more sustainable and balanced 

relationship.

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 

maintaining the vitality of Japanese studies in institutions of American higher education and 

associated professional organizations and institutions. 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.

During this period, the most important step the Commission took in support of Japanese studies in 

the United States was to institute the practice of making three-year commitments to grantee 

institutions that support basic activities in the field. The Commission invited and approved 

proposals for three-year grants from both the Interuniversity Center for Japanese Language Studies 

and the Northeast Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies. The Commission has full 

confidence in the training and research programs offered by these institutions; its purpose in 

inviting three-year grant proposals was both to reduce administrative burdens, and to allow these 

institutions to leverage other sources of support with this new statement of confidence from the 

Commission in the quality and future prospects of their programs. Given the success of these first 

two invitations, the Commission will consider issuing similar invitations to select grantees of longstanding in the future.

Another major change in the administration of the Commission•fs support for programs of basic 

scholarly research in the field was to shift its program of advanced social science research 

fellowships on Japan from the Social Science Research Council to the National Endowment for the 

Humanities, a constituent member of the Commission•fs board of governors. The Commission 

made this decision in light of the NEH•fs continued strong support for foreign language skills and 

area expertise and the production of new knowledge based on the scholarly use of those skills.

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

coordination between Commission support and CULCON priorities, especially in Japanese 

studies. 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 Association of Teachers of Japanese, continued support of the innovative 

CULCON-initiated website Cross Currents under development at the University of Hawai•fi 

(under the category of Public Affairs/Education), and in particular, in-kind support for the USJapan 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 

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During this period the Commission continued its long-standing support of programs of exchange 

between members of the American Studies Association of the United States, the Organization of 

American Historians and the Economic Historians Association, and counterpart organizations in 

Japan. In addition, it helped launch a similar exchange between the African American Literature 

and Culture Society and the Japan Black Studies Association with a grant to Indiana State 

University. Through these programs, the Commission 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 in Japan have continued to express their concern to the Commission that 

their highest priority lies in the support of Japanese graduate students in the field, and the nurturing 

of a new generation to take the place of the current generation of specialists at Japanese 

universities as they begin to retire. The Commission studied the issue in consultation with experts 

in both countries 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 field research in the United States. The Commission funded a pilot program for 

this effort in FY 2002. With the success of the pilot, the Commission continued its support of that 

effort with a second grant in FY 2004. It also provided support for graduate students through its 

grants to the academic associations listed above. In addition, the Commission provided support to 

American studies research centers at Doshisha and Ryukyus Universities for an array of research, 

work-shop and conference programs.

3. Public Affairs/Education

The Commission•fs support for activities in public affairs and education remains lively. Through 

it, 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 leaders, and to the American public at large. Projects in Public 

Affairs/Education fall under two general headings: Counterpart Exchanges and Media. The 

following provides brief descriptions of some highlights of the many project supported by the 

Commission in this category during the period of this report.

In the area of counterpart exchanges, the Commission continued to give highest priority to 

legislative exchange programs between the United States and Japan. 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 addition, the Commission gave support for exchanges among 

healthcare providers in the United States and Japan who use art as part of their therapy. Also, it 

helped foster policy dialog on a trilateral basis with Korean participants through a grant to the 

Japan Society and with Chinese participants through grants to the Pacific Forum/Center for 

Strategic and International Studies.

In FY 2001 the Commission helped launch the Japan Forum at the National Bureau of Asian 

Research, a public on-line forum on Japan and US-Japan relations. This pilot project to harness 

the power of the Internet in discussion and analysis of the US-Japan relationship proved extremely 

successful, and the Commission has provided support for this open discussion forum through the 

period under report. In addition, the Commission provided support to the Information 

Clearinghouse Japan in both years to help it build a database on the worldwide web of actions 

taken on appeals made to local review boards overseeing Japan•fs prefectural information 

disclosure laws. This database will be searchable in both Japanese and English and will provide 

the only analytical tool available to assess the effectiveness of this important area of Japanese 

legislation.

While the internet-based projects above are recent initiatives, the Commission also continued to 

foster its traditional public affairs programs through support for the International House of Japan, 

where the Commission had provided an annual grant since the latter•fs establishment for the 

International House•fs facilitative activities. Also, the Commission provided support to the 

National Association of Japan-America Societies (NAJAS) during the period under report, to offer 

mentorship training to new executive directors of the regional Japan-America societies. The 

Commission was instrumental in helping establish NAJAS and many of the individual JapanAmerica societies in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s. Many are now firmly 

established in their home communities, while NAJAS has established itself as the leading national 

voice in the promotion of closer ties between regional leadership in the United States and Japan. 

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The Commission was pleased to revisit these societies and reaffirm its support of their activities by 

helping strengthen a new generation of regional leadership as the first generation of society 

directors has begun to retire.

Finally, the period under review saw particularly lively Commission support for the production of 

documentary films on a variety of subject matters concerning Japanese society and US-Japan 

relations. 

4. The Arts

The Commission continues to support projects in the arts 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 

for support in the arts projects to send American exhibitions and performing arts groups to Japan.

Presentation of American arts and artists, especially at venues outside Tokyo, does not have a wellestablished history. While the Commission worked to implement this priority directly, it also 

worked with the National Endowment for the Arts to design a structure that would take the lead in 

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 (CTN), an office inside Arts 

Midwest devoted to this purpose. The pilot program proved successful, and the Commission has 

continued to support the CTN through the period under report. The Commission expects it will 

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. Readers will find in 

this biennial report an increased number of grants to send American performing arts troupes to 

Japan, not only to venues in Tokyo, but increasingly to regional venues, facilitated in many 

instances by the CTN.

In FY 2003 and FY 2004 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. Under this program, five Fellows annually spend six 

months in Japan, immersed in Japanese culture and its manifestations in their fields and in 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. The Commission has also upgraded the 

program by adding a fund for resident Fellows to use for collaborative projects while they are in 

Japan.

5. CULCON

CULCON (the US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange), a binational 

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 at the Commission, given 

the close relationship between CULCON and Commission membership. Since 1991, US 

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

CULCON recommendations, frequently with the Commission•fs professional and financial 

support.

In the 1990s, CULCON activity focused on two working groups: undergraduate educational 

exchange and information access. There also was considerable activity in media cooperation. 

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Breaking with precedent, CULCON held its nineteenth plenary session outside Tokyo and 

Washington, in Naha, Okinawa in February, 1999, its twentieth session in Los Angeles in 2001 

and its twenty-first in Sendai, Japan in 2003. CULCON XX provided the opportunity to review 

the work of the Digital Culture Working Group, CULCON•fs highest priority at that time. The 

Working Group•fs mission was to harness the power of the Internet to CULCON•fs mission of 

improving educational and cultural relations between the two countries. The product of this 

Working Group is Cross Currents, a web-based multimedia educational resources on US-Japan 

cultural and educational relations over the past fifty years.

With Cross Currents established, CULCON has turned its focus to a new subject at the twentyfirst plenary session: the develop-ment of a new generation of leaders with a global perspective 

and the experiences necessary to place the US-Japan relation-ship firmly in the globalized 

international community.

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•fs 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 2003

October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2003

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

A. JAPANESE STUDIES IN THE UNITED 

STATES

Faculty and Curriculum Development

 1. University of Pennsylvania – for support of 

•gThe 2003 Faculty and Curriculum 

Development Seminar on Japan•h

50,700

Language

 2. Alliance of Associations of Teachers of 

Japanese – for support of •gStaff, 

Infrastructure and Project Support for the 

Alliance of Associations of Teachers of 

Japanese•h 

75,000

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 3. Stanford University, for the Interuniversity 

Center for Japanese Language Studies in 

Yokohama – for support of advanced Japanese 

language training for American graduate 

students 

40,000,000

Libraries

4. North American Coordinating Council on 

Japanese Library Resources – for support of 

•gInfrastructural Support for the North 

American Coordinating Council on Japanese 

Library Resources, for Fiscal Year 2003-

2004•h 

83,750 10,000,000

Research

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

of •gNEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese Studies•h

67,792 3,600,000

 6. Social Science Research Council – for support of 

•gEvaluation of SSRC•fs Grants for Advanced 

Research 

on Japan•h

19,000

 7. Stimson Center – for support of •gJapan•fs 

Nuclear Option: Security, Politics and Policy in 

the 21st

Century•h

30,000

 Exchanges 

8. American Academy of Religion – for support 

of •gReligious Studies in the Japanese 

Context•h

4,707

9. Association of Teachers of Japanese – for 

support of •gThe Bridging Project 

Clearinghouse to Encourage Study Abroad in 

Japan by American Undergraduate Students•h

80,461

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TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN 

THE UNITED STATES $411,410 ¥53,600,000 

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

B. THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES IN 

JAPAN

Faculty and Curriculum Development

 1. American Political Science Association – for 

support of •gAn Open Boundaries Workshop: 

Women and Elective Office in Comparative 

Perspective•h 

37,580

 2. American Studies Association – for support of 

Year Two of •gJapan-United States Dialogues 

Across the Pacific: New Dimensions of 

American Studies•h 

12,020 1,062,000

 3. Economic Historians Association – for support 

of •gBuilding Economic History Bridges 

between Japan 

and the United States•h 

24,765 1,590,000

 4. Organization of American Historians – for 

support of •gJAAS/OAH Historians' 

Collaborative Project•h

20,668 2,772,000

Other 

5. Doshisha University – for support of •gWomen 

in American Politics•h 

1,244,800

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF 

THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN $95,033 ¥6,668,800

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

C. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

Outreach 

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1. Japan Society – for support of •gRedefining 

Japan and the US-Japan Alliance•h

15,000

2. Japanese America National Museum – for 

support to send the exhibit •gFrom Obento to 

Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry 

in Multicultural Hawai'i•h to Niigata, Japan

50,000

 3. National Association of Japan-America 

Societies – for support of •gNAJAS 

Mentorship Program Pilot Project•h

29,843

Counterpart Exchange 

4. Congressional Economic Leadership Institute – 

for support of •g2003 Congressional Staff 

Educational Exchange Program•h

85,595

5. George Washington University – for support of 

•gGWU US-Japan Economic Agenda 

Legislative Exchange Program•h

132,312 1,787,500

6. International House of Japan – for support of 

services to American educational, cultural and 

professional organizations

8,500,000

7. Pacific Forum CSIS – for support of •gToward 

a Stronger Foundation for United States, Japan 

and China Relations•h

19,205

Media and Dissemination 

8. Information Clearinghouse Japan – for support 

of •gSearchable Database for Japan 

Information Disclosure Recommendations•h

5,200,000

9. National Bureau of Asian Research – for 

support of •gJapan Forum•h

26,485

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10. Pacific Basin Institute – for support of 

•gBridge to the Rising Sun: Teachers and 

Students of the US Navy Japanese Language 

School during WWII – An Oral History 

Project•h 

64,000

11. The University of Hawai•fi – for support of 

•gCross Currents, Phase II•h

57,500

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

$479,940 ¥15,487,500

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

D. 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 2003 were administered in Japan 

for the Commission by the International House 

of Japan, Inc. 

Artists sponsored under the exchange fellowships:

Thomas Beale

Iona Brown (began residency in 2005)

Bruce Gremo

Sawako Nakayasu

Ellen Oppenheimer

24,660 42,560,000*

* for FYs 

2003 and 2004 

American Performances/Exhibitions in Japan 

2. GOH Productions – for support of Shizuoka 

Suite

30,000

3. Headlong Dance Theater – for support of Grasp 40,000

4. Japan-America Society of Pennsylvania – for 

support of Moments of Disbelief in association 

with Attack Theater 

30,000

5. Ping Chong and Company – for support of

Obon: Tales of Rain and Moonlight

50,000

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Other 

6. Arts Midwest – for support of •gUS/Japan 

Cultural Trade Network•h

70,050

7. Hara Museum – for support of •gHara Museum 

and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu 

(TCM) Joint Exhibition•h

6,786

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $251,496 ¥42,560,000

Commission Program Totals

As of September 30, 2003

Japanese Studies in the United States $411,410 ¥53,600,000

The Study of the United States in Japan 95,033 6,668,800

Public Affairs/Education 479,940 15,487,500

The Arts 251,496 42,560,000

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS $1,237,879 ¥118,316,300

CULCON Activities 

Funded by Transfer from US Department of State

Information Access Working Group $400

Digital Culture Working Group 37,580

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES $37,980

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2003

As of September 30, 2003

Personnel $373,000

General Services Administration for Payroll, 

 Accounting and Other Services

47,839

Office Space 61,298

Travel 36,924

Communications 8,572

Printing, Supplies, Publications 3,027

Other 49,840

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION ADMINISTRATIVE 

COSTS

$580,500

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Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2003

Personnel $113,420

Communications 200

Supplies 200

Other 200

TOTAL FOR CULCON ADMINISTRATIVE 

COSTS

$114,020

Appropriated Fund Income and Expense Statement

Fiscal Year 2003 (10-1-02 through 9-30-03)

INCOME 

Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,880,403

Refunds on Grants 124,726

Received from the National Endowment for the

 Arts 75,000

Received from the US Department of State for

 CULCON support 152,000

TOTAL INCOME $3,232,129

EXPENSES 

Commission Dollar Grants $1,237,879

Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants 1,004,610

Commission Administration 580,500

CULCON Activities 37,980

CULCON Administration 114,020

TOTAL EXPENSES $2,974,989

GAIN OR (LOSS) $257,140

Appropriated Fund Balance

Fiscal Year 2003 (10-1-02 through 9-30-03)

Original Appropriation, 1-1-76 $18,000,000 ¥3,941,112,771

Fund Balance, 9-30-02 44,389,030

Income or (loss) 257,140

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BALANCE, 9-30-03 $44,646,170

Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 2003 (10-1-02 through 9-30-03)

Balance, 9-30-02 $4,019

Grants 0

Administrative Expenses

Contributions

1,069

0

Refunds on Grants 0

BALANCE, 9-30-03 $2,950

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•fs 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 2004

October 1, 2003 - September 30, 2004

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 •gStaff and 

Infrastructure Support for Alliance of 

Associations of Teachers of Japanese•h

68,130

 2. Stanford University, for the Interuniversity 

Center for Japanese Language Studies in 

Yokohama – for support of advanced Japanese 

language training for American graduate 

students

40,000,000

Libraries

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 3. North American Coordinating Council on 

Japanese Library Resources – for support of 

•gInfrastructural Support for the North 

American Coordinating Council on Japanese 

Library Resources, for Fiscal Year 2004-2005•h

83,750 10,000,000

4. Society for Japanese Studies – for support in 

placing the Journal of Japanese Studies in 150 

college, university and public libraries across 

the United States

7,500

Professional Studies

 5. Columbia University, The Donald Keene 

Center of Japanese Culture – for support of 

•gThe Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize 

for the Translation of Japanese Literature•h for 

FY 2004 and FY 2005

40,000

Research

 6. Association for Asian Studies, Inc. – for 

support of •gNEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese 

Studies•h in FY 2004 and FY 2005

182,734 3,600,000

 7. Columbia Business School – for support of 

•gSolutions for the Japanese Economy•h

10,000

 8. East-West Center – for support of •gShifting 

Terrain: The Domestic Politics of the US 

Military Presence in the Asia Pacific•h 

51,037

9. Pacific Forum CSIS – for support of •gToward 

a Stronger Foundation for United States, Japan 

and China Relations•h 

21,563

10. University of Pennsylvania – for support of 

•gGoing Too Far: Rationalizing Unethical 

Medical Research in Japan, Germany and the 

United States•h 

10,000

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Student Exchange

11. Association of Teachers of Japanese – for 

support of •gThe Bridging Project 

Clearinghouse to Encourage Study Abroad in 

Japan by American Undergraduate Students•h

76,107

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN 

THE UNITED STATES $550,821 ¥53,600,000

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 •gJapan-United States Dialogues 

Across the Pacific: New Dimensions of 

American Studies.•h Also, partial support for 

Year One of •gBridging the World(s)•h for FY 

2005

24,040 1,512,000

 2. Indiana State University – for support of Year 

One of •gThe Current State of African 

American Studies: Japanese and American 

Perspectives•h

40,000

 3. Organization of American Historians – for 

support of •gJAAS/OAH Historians•f 

Collaborative Project•h

21,443 3,236,948

Other

 4. Doshisha University, Graduate School of 

American Studies – for support of •gAmerican 

Studies Research Travel Grants for MA Students 

at Japanese Universities•h and •gUSA Election 

2004•h

3,720,000

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5. University of the Ryukyus – for support of Year 

One of •gThe Cutting-Edge Lecture and 

Workshop Series in American Studies•h

1,465,000

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF 

THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN $85,483 ¥9,933,948

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

C. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

Outreach 

 1. Japan-America Student Conference – for 

support of the 56th Japan-America Student 

Conference

10,000

 2. National Association of Japan-America 

Societies – for support of •gNAJAS Mentorship 

Program Year Two•h

27,346

 3. Society for the Arts in Health Care – for 

support of •gThe Dissemination Phase of 

•eCaring for Caregivers: A Grassroots USAJapan Initiative•f•h

20,000

Counterpart Exchanges

 4. Congressional Economic Leadership Institute – 

for support of •gUS-Japan Members of 

Congress Education Exchange Program•h

65,950

 5. The George Washington University – for 

support of •gGWU US-Japan Economic 

Agenda Legislative Exchange Program•h

153,787

 6. International House of Japan – for support of 

services for American educational, cultural and 

professional organizations

8,500,000

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7. US Association of Former Members of 

Congress – for support of •gThe Congressional 

Study Group on Japan•h

31,591

Media and Dissemination

8. Information Clearinghouse Japan – for support 

of •gSearchable Database for Japan 

Information Disclosure Recommendations•h

4,378,000

9. Media Bridges – for support of the 

documentary film The Spirit of Taiko

25,000

10. Mystic Aquarium Institute for Exploration – for 

support of the documentary film Bridging the 

Ocean Divide: How Dolphins Unite Japanese 

and American Citizens in Global 

Environmental Stewardship

20,000

11. National Bureau of Asian Research – for 

support of •gJapan Forum•h in FY 2004 and 

FY 2005

56,420

12. National Japanese American Historical Society

– for support of the documentary film Stolen 

Lives

25,000

13. Projectile Arts – for support of the 

documentary film Kokoyakyu: High School 

Baseball

50,200

14. University of Hawai•fi – for support of •gCross

Currents, Phase III•h

57,500

15. University of Illinois – for support of the 

documentary film The Birth of Edo: Making of 

a Metropolis

16,100

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION $558,894 ¥12,878,000

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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 2004 were administered in Japan 

for the Commission by the International House 

of Japan, Inc. Yen funds for FY 2004 include 

funds for collaborative projects carried out in 

Japan by the Creative Artist Fellows.

Artists sponsored under the exchange 

fellowships:

Laure Drogoul

Adam Frelin

Rinehardt Linmark

Raymond Sandoval

17,492 22,660,000

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

American Performances/Exhibitions in Japan

2. Group Motion – for support of a collaboration 

with Japanese choreographer Kenshi Nohmi to 

travel to Dance Selection 2003 in Tokyo

13,000

3. New York City Ballet – for support of •gNew 

York City Ballet in Japan•h

12,250

4. Snappy Dance Theatre – for support to send the 

Snappy Dance Theatre to perform at the •gWe 

Love Dance Festival•h in Tokyo and to attend 

the Tokyo Performing Arts Market

5,000

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5. Theatre of Yugen – for support of •gMoon of the 

Scarlet Plums International Tour 2005•h

20,000

Other

6. Arts Midwest – for support of •gUS/Japan 

Cultural Trade Network•h

68,800

7. Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble – for support of 

the Noh Training Project 10th Anniversary 

•gNoh Weekend•h Celebration

2,500

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $139,042 ¥22,660,000

Commission Program Totals

As of September 30, 2004

Japanese Studies in the United States $550,821 ¥53,600,000

The Study of the United States in Japan 85,483 9,933,948

Public Affairs/Education 558,894 12,878,000

The Arts 139,042 22,660,000

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS $1,334,240 ¥99,071,948

CULCON Activities 

Funded by Transfer from US Department of State

Cross Currents/Digital Culture Working Group $24,445

Global Leaders Working Group 2,150

CULCON XXI Plenary Session 86,311

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES $112,906

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2004

As of September 30, 2004

Personnel $390,823

General Services Administration 

for Payroll, 

 Accounting and Other Services

52,000

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Office Space 70,332

Travel 35,747

Communications 4,614

Printing, Supplies, Publications 5,197

Other 46,450

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

$605,163

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2004

Personnel $124,072

Communications 200

Supplies 200

Other 200

TOTAL FOR CULCON ADMINISTRATIVE 

COSTS

$124,672

Appropriated Fund Income and Expense Statement 

Fiscal Year 2004 (10-1-03 through 9-30-04)

INCOME

Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,229,381

Refunds on Grants 73,352

Received from the US National Endowment for 

the Arts

75,000

Received from US Department of State for 

CULCON support

237,578

TOTAL INCOME $2,615,311

EXPENSES

Commission Dollar Grants $1,334,240

Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants 902,941

Commission Administration 605,163

CULCON Activities 112,906

CULCON Administration 124,672

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TOTAL EXPENSES $3,079,922

GAIN OR (LOSS) ($464,611)

Appropriated Fund Balance

Fiscal Year 2004 (10-1-03 through 9-30-04)

Original Appropriation $18,000,000 ¥3,941,112,771

Fund Balance, 9-30-03 44,646,170

Income or (loss) (464,611)

BALANCE, 9-30-04 $44,181,559

Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 2004 (10-1-03 through 9-30-04)

Balance, 9-30-03 $2,950

Grants 0

Administrative Expenses 887

Contributions 7613

BALANCE, 9-30-04 $9,676

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Last Updated January 4, 2012, Contact jusfc@jusfc.gov

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