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JUSFC 

The Japan-United States Friendship Commission, an independent 

federal agency, supports programs of training, education and 

information management to help prepare Americans to meet the 

challenges and opportunities in the US-Japan relationship. It works 

through providing grants to non-profit entities in the following areas: 

—Japanese Studies in the United States 

—The Study of the United States in Japan 

—Public Affairs/Education 

—The Arts 
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The Commission 2005-2006 

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: 

Mr. Willard G. Clark** 

Founder, Center for Japanese 

Art & Culture 

The Honorable Bruce Cole 

Chairman 

National Endowment for the Humanities 

Dr. Richard E. Dyck** 

President 

TCS Japan, KK 

The Honorable Dana Gioia 

Chairman 

National Endowment for the Arts 

Dr. Michael J. Green** 

Japan Chair and Senior Advisor 

Center for Strategic and International 

Studies

The Honorable Christopher R. Hill** 

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. “Regge” Life, Jr. * ** 

Filmmaker 

The Honorable James McDermott 

United States House of Representatives 

The Honorable Lisa Murkowski 

United States Senate

The Honorable Thomas E. Petri* 

United States House of Representatives 

The Honorable Dina Powell* ** 

Assistant Secretary of State for 

Educational 

 and Cultural Affairs 

US Department of State 

The Honorable John D. Rockefeller, IV* 

United States Senate 

Mr. Frank P. Stanek** 

President 

Stanek Global Advisors 

Dr. Patricia G. Steinhoff** 

Professor 

Department of Sociology 

University of Hawai’i

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 

Assistant Executive Director 

Ms. Pamela L. Fields

Assistant Executive Director, CULCON

Ms. Sylvia L. Dandridge

Staff Assistant

*Members of the Executive Committee 

**Members of the US CULCON Panel
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A Message from the 

Chairman 

I am pleased to present the Japan-US 

Friendship Commission’s biennial 

report for Fiscal Years 2005 and 2006. 

With this report, the Japan-US 

Friendship Commission concludes its 

thirtieth year of operation. These thirty 

years have seen slow, incremental 

changes in the bilateral relationship. 

Compared at any one time with the 

immediate history preceding it, the 

relationship frequently appeared 

unchanging, even stagnant. Comparing 

the relationship today to the situation 

in 1975 when President Gerald Ford 

signed the Japan-United States 

Friendship Act into law, however, it is 

of a fundamentally different nature. 

The importance of the Commission’s 

mission has never been greater. 

One thing that has not changed in this 

time is the Japan-United States Friendship Trust Fund, the endowment 

created by Congress that provides the 

resources for the Commission’s 

operations. This means essentially that 

the Commission is operating on a 1975 

budget. The effects of inflation, the 

strengthening of the Japanese yen, and 

the lowering of US government interest 

rates, which govern the Commission’s 

investments, have all eroded the value 

of the Commission’s resources. The 

Commission has taken several steps to 

address the situation, including 

expanding a set of three-year grants to 

major grantees, which help assure them 

of financial stability during this time. It 

has also focused its priorities on a clear 

and well-defined set of activities, and 

now asks that all potential grantees be 

prepared to find additional sources of 

support for full program costs, to help 

share the burden. 

The relationship of the Commission to 

the United States-Japan Conference on 

Cultural and Educational Interchange 

(CULCON) has never been closer. As 

a result of the most recent plenary 

session, held in July, 2006 at 

Yellowstone National Park, CULCON 

is rewriting its mission statement to 

align its activities more closely to 

current realities in cultural and 

educational relations between the two 

countries. The Commission stands 

prepared to assist CULCON with its 

future activities as they evolve into 

tangible program form. Also, I would 

like to recognize the work of the 

United States-Japan Bridging Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization that the 

Commission established in 1998 as a 

CULCON initiative. Its purpose is to 

raise scholarships to help American 

undergraduates study in Japan. Thus 

far, it has raised close to $3M and sent 

over 700 students to Japan. As the 

Foundation moves into a position of 

financial independence, I would like to 

congratulate it on its great success. 

Richard J. Samuels 

Chairman 

February, 2007
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The Japan-United States 

Friendship Commission in 

2005-2006

The Japan-United States Friendship 

Commission (“Commission”) is 

pleased to submit this report on its 

twenty-ninth and thirtieth years of 

operations for the period October 1, 

2004 to September 30, 2006, which 

corresponds to the federal Fiscal 

Years 2005 and 2006. 

Background and Overview 

The Japan-United States 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 

relationship 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 informed decisionmaking and mutual respect. 

Thus established, the Commission is 

a unique federal agency. Its mission 

is to focus on and strengthen a single 

bilateral relationship, between the 

United States and Japan. 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. The yen fund 

represented a portion of the money 

paid by the Japanese government to 

compensate the United States for its 

post-World War II assistance known 

as GARIOA, while the dollar fund 

represented a portion of the money 

paid by the Japanese government for 

certain public facilities on Okinawa it 

received at the time of the reversion 

of the Ryukyus to Japanese 

sovereignty in 1972. The Commission was authorized to invest 

these funds in their respective 

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. The Act was amended in 

1998 to make the two funds 

interchangeable, allowing the Commission to seek the highest return on 

its investments in government 

obligations in either or both of the 

two countries. 

The Commission 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 
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the chairman. Of these eighteen, 

twelve members, including the 

private citizens and three government 

officials, serve ex officio on the 

Commission by virtue of their service 

on CULCON, a binational advisory 

panel to the two governments in 

educational and cultural affairs. The 

Board's responsibility is to manage 

investment of the Trust Fund and use 

the proceeds to make grants to nonprofit institutions in the United States 

and Japan for programs of research, 

training, education and exchange. 

The Commission’s mission is as valid 

now as when it was established. The 

relationship between Japan and the 

United States is unique in size, in 

complexity, and in its mixture of 

cooperation and competition. That 

relationship, however, stands on the 

cusp of change, and the Commission’s programs and priorities 

reflect this situation. 

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 changed the core concerns of 

US-Japan trade relations permanently. 

The emergence of China, the North 

Korean nuclear crisis and terrorism 

have changed the terms of regional 

and 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 their bilateral economic, 

security and political ties and to 

reassess their optimal management. 

The history of the past sixty years 

demonstrates that the United States 

and Japan have much in common in 

terms of broad national values. 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 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 each country devote to the 

other. There is also 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 to help craft 

more effective policy in the 

management of the relationship. It is 

the Commission’s primary purpose to 

help generate and disseminate 

knowledge and insight, based on the 

results of rigorous, independent, 
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scholarly research, that will help 

shape and inform each country’s 

understanding of the other, both 

inside and outside the academy, 

leading in the Commission’s 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, support for Japanese 

studies in the United States has 

remained the largest program of 

Commission support during FYs 

2005 and 2006. 

During this period, the most 

important step the Commission took 

in support of Japanese studies in the 

United States was to expand the 

practice of making three-year 

commitments to grantee institutions 

that support basic activities in the 

field. In the previous period, the 

Commission had invited and 

approved proposals for three-year 

grants from the Interuniversity 

Center for Japanese Language Studies 

and the Northeast Asian Council of 

the Association for Asian Studies. In 

this period, it approved similar threeyear grants to the Alliance of 

Associations of Teachers of Japanese 

and the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library 

Resources. The Commission has full 

confidence in the quality of programs 

offered by these institutions; its 

purpose in inviting three-year grant 

proposals has been 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 addition to these 

two institutions, the Commission 

assessed the pilot program it had 

established with the National 

Endowment for the Humanities to 

support a program of fellowships for 

advanced research in the social 

sciences on Japan. The pilot proved 

extremely successful, and the Commission and the NEH agreed to 

support a full program of fellowships 

over a three-year period as well. 

While the Commission has given 

priority to support of the vital 

underpinnings of the field of 

Japanese studies in American higher 
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education, it has also continued to 

support projects of collaborative 

research on important and timely 

subjects. As an example of such 

projects in this period, the 

Commission supported “Shifting 

Terrain: the Domestic Politics of the 

US Military Presence in the Asia 

Pacific” at the East-West Center. 

The project analyzed the impact of 

local politics on national policies of 

basing US forces in several Asia 

Pacific nations and issued its results 

both through scholarly publication 

and through policy workshops just at 

the time when US policymakers were 

considering options for basing US 

forces in that region. 

The close relationship between the 

boards of CULCON and the 

Commission continues to lead to a 

high degree of coordination between 

the Commission’s resources 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 Web 

site Cross Currents under development 

at the University of Hawai’i (under 

the category of Public Affairs/Education), and in particular, in-kind 

support for the CULCON-initiated 

US-Japan Bridging Foundation, 

which serves to raise funds to help 

send more US undergraduates to 

study in Japan, a long-standing 

CULCON priority. By the end of 

this reporting period, the Foundation 

had gathered sufficient strength to 

begin taking on partial support of the 

administrative costs of the 

Clearinghouse. 

2. The Study of the United 

States in Japan 

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 and 

the Organization of American 

Historians on the one hand, and 

counterpart organizations in Japan. 

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 
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the Graduate School for American 

Studies at Doshisha University in 

Kyoto to devise a national competition for Japanese graduate 

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 

program, the Commission continued 

its support of that effort with third 

and fourth grants in FYs 2005 and 

2006. It also provided support for 

graduate students through its grants 

to the academic associations listed 

above. In addition, the Commission 

provided support to the American 

Studies Research Center at The 

University of the Ryukyus for 

research, workshop and conference 

programs. 

3. Public Affairs/Education

The Commission’s 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. 

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 senior Congressional staff. 

During this period, the Legislative 

Exchange Program of The George 

Washington University added an 

important new dimension to its 

annual exchange of legislators by 

inviting members of the South 

Korean legislative body to join with 

the American and Japanese 

participants, an experiment it 

institutionalized in FY 2006. 

In the period under review, the 

Commission continued to support 

the services of the International 

House of Japan, where the Commission had provided an annual grant 

since the latter’s establishment for 

support of the International House’s 

facilitative and library services. 

During this period, however, in 

consultation with the new leadership 

of the International House, the 

Commission transformed its support 

from a grant to a contract basis, in 

recognition of the International 

House’s successful modernization of 

its physical and financial infrastructures. 
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The period under review continued 

to see lively Commission support for 

the production of documentary films 

on subject matters concerning 

Japanese society and US-Japan 

relations. Perhaps the most widely 

distributed of these films was 

Kokoyakyu: Highschool Baseball by 

Projectile Arts, which received high 

critical praise. 

4. The Arts

The Commission continues to 

support projects in the arts in the 

firm belief that exchange in the arts is 

one of the most effective means of 

fostering better understanding between the two countries. Currently, 

its priority in support of the arts is 

for 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 works to implement this 

priority directly, it has 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 

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. 

In FYs 2005 and 2006 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 a 

residency of five 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. In the period 

under review, it upgraded the program by supporting the hiring of an 

additional part-time facilitator in the 

visual arts. 

5. CULCON

CULCON, the United 

States-Japan Conference on Cultural 

and Educational Interchange, is a 

binational advisory panel to the US 

and Japanese governments with 

origins in meetings held in 

Washington in 1961 between 

President John F. Kennedy and 

Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda. Since 

its first meeting in Tokyo in January, 
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1962, CULCON has served to focus 

official and public attention in both 

the United States and Japan on the 

vital cultural and educational 

underpinnings of the binational 

relationship. 

Originally a program of the 

Department of State, CULCON 

became a program of the United 

States Information Agency in 1978. 

In 1999, it returned to the 

Department of State, Office of the 

Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy 

and Public Affairs. In 1991, permanent secretariats were established 

in Tokyo and Washington to provide 

continuity to CULCON activities. In 

Washington the secretariat was 

established inside the Japan-US 

Friendship Commission. Comprised 

of both public officials and private 

citizens from both nations, 

CULCON has taken advantage of its 

unique membership to make inroads 

where organizations with homogeneous membership have failed. 

In the recent past, CULCON 

has sought to harness the power of 

the Internet to its mission of 

improving educational and cultural 

relations between the two countries 

in the form of an interactive website 

named Cross Currents. In the period 

under review, CULCON’s Digital 

Culture Working Group completed 

this work by launching Cross Currents

at www.crosscurrents.hawaii.edu. 

In July, 2006, at its twentysecond plenary session, panelists 

from both sides reaffirmed through 

unanimous agreement that CULCON 

serves a valuable function but needs 

to be strengthened. The panelists 

agreed to establish a working group 

to draft a new mission statement for 

CULCON that reflects the contemporary context in which US-Japan 

relations operate. This mission 

statement will include objectives, 

goals, structure and stakeholders. In 

the context of the mission statement, 

the Working Group will make 

recommendations on action items for 

consideration over the coming two 

years. 
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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 website at www.jusfc.gov, where links are available to individual project sites, or may 

consult with the Commission staff. 

Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2005 

October 1, 2004 - September 30, 2005

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” 

64,130 

 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 

 3. 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 2004-2005” 

86,000 9,500,000 
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Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants 

Japanese Yen 

Grants 

Research 

 4. Dartmouth College – for support of “Portsmouth and Its Legacies: An International 

Conference Commemorating the Centennial 

of the Russo-Japanese Peace Treaty of 1905” 

56,638 

 5. East-West Center – for support of Year Two of 

“Shifting Terrain: The Domestic Politics of 

the US Military Presence in the Asia Pacific” 

41,236 

 6. National Endowment for the Humanities – for 

support of “Grants for Advanced Research in 

the Social Science on Japan” 

120,000 

7. Pacific Forum CSIS – for support of “Toward a 

Stronger Foundation for United States, Japan 

and China Relations” 

10,000 

Student Exchange 

8. Association of Teachers of Japanese – for support 

of “The Bridging Project Clearinghouse to 

Encourage Study Abroad in Japan by 

American Undergraduate Students” 

72,023 

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN 

THE UNITED STATES $450,027 ¥49,500,000
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FY 2005 The Study of the United States in Japan

13 

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 One of “Bridging the World(s)” 

 

 1,512,000 

 2. Indiana State University – for support of Year 

Two of “The Current State of African 

American Studies: Japanese and American 

Perspectives” 

40,379 

 3. Organization of American Historians – for support 

of “JAAS/OAH Historians’ Collaborative 

Project” 

13,500 690,000 

Other 

 4. Doshisha University, Graduate School of American 

Studies – for support of “American Studies 

Research Travel Grants for MA Students at 

Japanese Universities” 

 2,000,000 

5. University of the Ryukyus – for support of Year 

Two of “The Cutting-Edge Lecture and 

Workshop Series in American Studies” 

24,871 

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF 

THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN $78,750 ¥4,202,000
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Public Affairs/Education FY 2005

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Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants 

Japanese Yen 

Grants 

C. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

Outreach 

 1. National Building Museum – for support of 

“Five Friends From Japan: Children in Japan 

Today” 

10,000 

2. New York Botanical Garden – for support of 

“The Japanese Kiku Chrysanthemum 

Exhibition” 

25,000 

3. Shibusawa Memorial Museum – for support of 

“Different Lands, Shared Experiences” 

 1,700,000 

Counterpart Exchanges 

 4. The George Washington University – for support 

of “GWU US-Japan Economic Agenda 

Legislative Exchange Program for 2005” 

138,024 1,618,500 

 5. International House of Japan – for support of 

services for American educational, cultural 

and professional institutions in 2005 

 9,200,000 

6. United States Association of Former Members of 

Congress – for support of “The Congressional 

Study Group on Japan” 

30,000 
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Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants 

Japanese Yen 

Grants 

Media and Dissemination 

7. Colorado State University – for support of the 

documentary film Riverwebs 

25,000 

8. Information Clearinghouse Japan – for support of 

“Information Access: Searchable Database 

for Japan Information Disclosure 

Recommendations” 

 3,100,000 

9. National Japanese American Historical Society – 

for support of the documentary film Stolen 

Lives 

19,000 

10. Projectile Arts – for support of the documentary film Kokoyakyu: Highschool Baseball

20,000 

11. University of Hawai’i – for support of “Cross

Currents, Phase IV” 

57,500 

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/ 

EDUCATION $324,524 ¥15,618,500
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The Arts FY 2005

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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 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 2005 were administered in 

Japan for the Commission by the 

International House of Japan, Inc. Yen funds 

for FY 2005 include funds for collaborative 

projects carried out in Japan by the Creative 

Artist Fellows. 

Artists sponsored under the exchange 

fellowships: 

Marco Breuer 

Lee Durkee 

Hiroko Kawai 

Luis Recoder 

Jonathan Shirota

23,275 21,970,000 

American Performances/Exhibitions in 

Japan

 

 2. Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble – for support of 

Theatre Nohgaku’s Writers Workshop 

3,000 

 3. Group Motion – for support of the 

collaborative project All Around You

12,700 

Other 

 

 4. Arts Midwest – for support of “United States 

Cultural Trade Network” 

80,000 

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $118,975 ¥21,970,000
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Commission Program Totals 

As of September 30, 2005 

 Japanese Studies in the United States $450,027 ¥49,500,000 

 The Study of the United States in Japan 78,750 4,202,000 

 Public Affairs/Education 324,524 15,618,500 

 The Arts 118,975 21,970,000 

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS $972,276 ¥91,290,500

CULCON Activities 

Funded by Transfer from US Department of State 

Cross Currents/Digital Culture Working Group $20,000 

 Global Leaders Working Group 14,210 

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES $34,210
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Funds and Expenses FY 2005

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Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2005 

As of September 30, 2005 

 Personnel $406,301 

 Office Space 79,202 

 Travel 46,165 

 Communications 7,133 

 Printing, Supplies, Publications 9,585 

 General Services Administration for Payroll, 

Accounting and Other Services; Other 

Government Agency Services 

52,892 

 Other Contracts 35,464 

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $636,742

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2005 

 Personnel $125,190 

 Communications 200 

 Supplies 200 

 Other 200 

TOTAL FOR CULCON 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $125,790
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Appropriated Fund Income and Expense Statement 

Fiscal Year 2005 (10-1-04 through 9-30-05) 

INCOME 

 Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,299,190 

 Refunds on Grants 76,523 

 Received from the US National Endowment 

for the Arts 75,000 

 Received from US Department of State for 

CULCON support 160,000 

TOTAL INCOME $2,610,713

EXPENSES 

 Commission Dollar Grants $972,276 

 Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants 849,628 

 Commission Administration 636,742 

 CULCON Activities 34,210 

 CULCON Administration 125,790 

TOTAL EXPENSES $2,618,646

 GAIN OR (LOSS) ($7,933)
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Appropriated Fund Balance 

Fiscal Year 2005 (10-1-04 through 9-30-05) 

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

 Fund Balance, 9-30-04 39,527,612 

 Income or (loss) ($7,933) 

BALANCE, 9-30-05 $39,519,679

Gift Fund (non-appropriated) 

Fiscal Year 2005 (10-1-04 through 9-30-05) 

 Balance, 9-30-04 $9,676 

 Grants 0 

 Administrative Expenses 3,264 

 Contributions 8,847 

BALANCE, 9-30-05 $15,259
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FY 2006 Japanese Studies in the United States

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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 website at www.jusfc.gov, where links are available to individual project sites, or may 

consult with the Commission staff. 

Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2006 

October 1, 2005 - September 30, 2006

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” 

62,130 

 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 

 3. 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 2005-2006” 

86,025 9,000,000 

 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 
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Japanese Studies in the United States FY 2006

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Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants 

Japanese Yen 

Grants 

Professional Studies 

 5. Columbia University, The Donald Keene Center of 

Japanese Culture – for support of “The JapanUS Friendship Commission Prize for the 

Translation of Japanese Literature” for FY 

2006 

20,000 

Research 

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

of “NEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese 

Studies” in FY 2006 

114,943 

7. East-West Center – for support of Year Three 

of “Shifting Terrain: The Domestic Politics 

of the US Military Presence in the Asia 

Pacific” 

25,053 

 8. National Endowment for the Humanities – for 

support of “Grants for Advanced Research in 

the Social Sciences on Japan” 

140,000 

Student Exchange 

9. Association of Teachers of Japanese – for support 

of “The Bridging Project Clearinghouse to 

Encourage Study Abroad in Japan by 

American Undergraduate Students” 

56,338 

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN 

THE UNITED STATES $511,989 ¥49,000,000
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FY 2006 The Study of the United States in Japan

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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 Two of “Bridging the World(s)” 

 

25,000 

 2. Organization of American Historians – for support 

of “JAAS/OAH Historians’ Collaborative 

Project” 

40,000 

Other 

 3. Doshisha University, Graduate School of American 

Studies – for support of “American Studies 

Research Travel Grants for MA Students at 

Japanese Universities”

 1,600,000 

4. University of the Ryukyus – for support of the 

“United States and the Pacific Islands: Culture, 

Science, Politics” 

 2,306,535 

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF 

THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN $65,000 ¥3,906,535
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Public Affairs/Education FY 2006

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Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants 

Japanese Yen 

Grants 

C. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

Counterpart Exchanges 

 1. Congressional Economic Leadership Institute – for 

support of “2006 Congressional Staff 

Educational Exchange Program” 

35,000 

 2. The George Washington University – for support 

of “GWU US-Japan Economic Agenda 

Legislative Exchange Program for 2006” 

125,000 

 3. International House of Japan – for support of 

services for American educational, cultural 

and professional institutions in 2006 

 4,600,000 

4. United States Association of Former Members of 

Congress – for support of “The Congressional 

Study Group on Japan” 

15,000 

Media and Dissemination 

5. Film Arts Foundation – for support of the 

documentary film The Polka Dot Princess 

10,000 

6. National Bureau of Asian Research – for support 

of “Japan-US Discussion Forum” in FY 2006 

25,000 

7. University of Illinois – for support of the 

documentary film The Birth of Edo, Making of a 

Metropolis 

20,000 

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/ 

EDUCATION $230,000 ¥4,600,000
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FY 2006 The Arts

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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 National Endowment for the Arts. The 

funds devoted to this program include 

$100,000 received from the National 

Endowment for the Arts. Grant funds for 

the artists in FY 2006 were administered in 

Japan for the Commission by the 

International House of Japan, Inc. 

Artists sponsored under the exchange 

fellowships: 

Karen LaMonte 

Dean Sameshima 

Edward Schocker 

Sheryl Simons 

Laura Sims 

23,651 21,030,000 

American Performances/Exhibitions in 

Japan

 

 2. Group Motion – for support of RONDO at 

Dance Selection 2006 

12,000 

 3. Trish Brown Dance Company – for support 

of TBDC in Japan

20,000 

Other 

 

 4. Arts Midwest – for support of “United States 

Cultural Trade Network” 

50,000 

5. Tokyo International Arts Festival – for support 

of “The American Contemporary Plays and 

Playwrights Project” 

 3,540,000 

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $105,651 ¥24,570,000
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Commission and CULCON Totals FY 2006

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Commission Program Totals 

As of September 30, 2006 

 Japanese Studies in the United States $511,989 ¥49,000,000 

 The Study of the United States in Japan 65,000 3,906,535 

 Public Affairs/Education 230,000 4,600,000 

 The Arts 105,651 24,570,000 

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS $912,640 ¥82,076,535

CULCON Activities 

Funded by Transfer from US Department of State 

Cross Currents/Digital Culture Working Group $14,600 

 Global Leaders Working Group 14,600 

 CULCON XXII Plenary Session 59,302 

 

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES $88,502
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FY 2006 Funds and Expenses

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Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2006 

As of September 30, 2006 

 Personnel $431,481 

 Office Space 82,149 

 Travel 49,336 

 Communications 5,469 

 Printing, Supplies, Publications 2,913 

 General Services Administration for Payroll, 

Accounting and Other Services; Other 

Government Agency Services 

65,726 

 Contract with International House of Japan 24,992 

 Audit per ATDA 2002 10,000 

 Other Contracts 31,748 

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $703,814

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2006 

 Personnel $129,860 

 Communications 300 

 Supplies 340 

 Other 300 

TOTAL FOR CULCON 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $130,800
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Funds and Expenses FY 2006

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Appropriated Fund Income and Expense Statement 

Fiscal Year 2006 (10-1-05 through 9-30-06) 

INCOME 

 Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,153,867 

 Refunds on Grants 64,518 

 Received from the US National Endowment 

for the Arts 100,000 

 Received from US Department of State for 

CULCON support 

219,302 

TOTAL INCOME $2,537,687

EXPENSES 

 Commission Dollar Grants $912,640 

 Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants 701,509 

 Commission Administration 703,814 

 CULCON Activities 88,502 

 CULCON Administration 130,800 

TOTAL EXPENSES $2,537,265

 GAIN OR (LOSS) $422
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FY 2006 Funds and Expenses

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Appropriated Fund Balance 

Fiscal Year 2006 (10-1-05 through 9-30-06) 

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

 Fund Balance, 9-30-05 39,519,679 

 Income or (loss) 422 

BALANCE, 9-30-06 $39,520,101

Gift Fund (non-appropriated) 

Fiscal Year 2006 (10-1-05 through 9-30-06) 

 Balance, 9-30-05 $15,259 

 Grants 0 

 Administrative Expenses 2,231 

 Contributions 0 

BALANCE, 9-30-06 $13,028