Biennial Report 2009-2010 

Japan-United States Friendship Commission 

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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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1 

A Message from the Chairman

I am pleased to present the Japan‐US

Friendship Commission’s biennial report

for Fiscal Years 2009 and 2010.  With this

report, the Japan‐US Friendship

Commission concludes its thirty‐fourth

year of operation.   

It is my privilege to have served as

Chairman of the US panel of the US‐Japan

Conference on Cultural and Educational

Interchange (CULCON) and the Japan‐US

Friendship Commission, two organizations

with overlapping memberships, for the

two years under review.  The members of

the US CULCON Panel and the Japan‐US

Friendship Commission have worked hard

over the past two years to align policy and

funding priorities between the two

organizations.    The Commission board

carried out a review of the Commission’s

programs and priorities in September,

2008 and reaffirmed through this process

its commitment to the support of core

institutions of Japanese studies in US

higher education and to the preservation

of the Commission’s principal, two

fundamental principles observed by the

Commission since 1975.    In addition, it

recognized that the vitality of the field

depends increasingly on bringing in fresh

talent and thus agreed that the

Commission would consider support for

activities at the undergraduate level that

represent the interests of the field

nationwide.

In 2009 CULCON organized a major

symposium in Tokyo on the theme of soft

power in the bilateral relationship.    In

2010, it held a plenary session at the

Library of Congress in Washington, DC.  

Through these means CULCON has

identified new areas of interest in

bilateral exchanges, helping not only to

strengthen exchanges of American

students and researchers to Japan, but

also looking to strengthen the exchange

of Japanese students and researchers to

the United States.    We are increasingly

aware of the need to help solidify Japan’s

role in regional and global exchanges as

the major player that it is, and CULCON

looks forward to building programs on

this new theme.  I would particularly like

to thank our colleagues at the

Department of State, Assistant Secretary

Kurt Campbell and Assistant Secretary

Ann Stock and their able staffs, for their

enduring support of the work of CULCON.  

The Commission supervises the activities

of CULCON, but it is a program of the

Department of State.

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.  It continues to work in

close cooperation with both the Japan‐US

Friendship Commission and CULCON.    Its

purpose is to raise scholarships to help

American undergraduates study in Japan

for a semester or for the full academic

year.    Despite the global economic

downturn, the Foundation has achieved

its goal of sending 1,000 students to

Japan, having sent a total of 1,083

students by the close of 2010.    These

Bridging Scholars include not only

Japanese studies majors, but students

majoring in subjects across the entire

span of university teaching.    It seeks to

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3 

A Message from the Executive Director

I am honored to have served on the

Japan‐US Friendship Commission since

1985, and to have served as its Executive

Director since 1991.    Next June, my

twenty‐sixth year of service, I plan to

retire.

The Commission is a unique federal

agency, one of only a handful of

independent agencies established to look

after the interests of a single bilateral

relationship.    It is also unique in size,

being among the very smallest of federal

entities.    Where “micro” is measured in

units of 100, the Commission and its

peers are truly in the class of “nano”

agencies.

This characteristic of the Commission has

served it well.  Where larger agencies with

complex missions move slowly, the

Commission has moved deftly among the

changing interests and pressures affecting

the bilateral relationship.    In the 1980s,

the Commission moved rapidly to help

build grassroots organizations to educate

American citizens on the social and

cultural practices of the Japanese newly

arriving in their communities with the

influx of Japanese investment.    In the

1990s, as trade issues came to dominate

bilateral relations, the Commission built a

program to support policy‐oriented

research, with a view to helping our

policymakers make informed decisions

dealing with the bilateral trade

relationship with the results of that

research.   With the end of the Cold War

and the erosion of financial resources

both in Japan and the United States to

support educational and cultural

exchange, the Commission signaled its

highest priority to be the maintenance of

the core institutions that it had helped

build in previous decades, such as the

Interuniversity Center for Japanese

Language Studies in Yokohama.    Most

recently, with the enormous changes in

political administrations in both countries

stemming from the election in the US of

2008, and the elections in Japan of 2009

and 2010, the Commission has sought to

bolster a sustained dialog between

legislators in the two countries as one of

the most valuable contribution it can

make to the well‐being of the Japan‐US

relationship.

People often speak now of Japan

“passing” and Japan “nothing.”   It is true

that compared to twenty‐five years ago,

the number of proposals the Commission

expects to receive in a year for its grants

competition has been significantly

reduced, perhaps by as much as fifty

percent.    For the pessimist, this “proves”

that Japan has passed from the public eye

in the United States.  A closer look reveals

a more complex situation.    Twenty‐five

years ago, it was easy to dismiss at least

half of the proposals the Commission

received as thin, naïve or opportunistic.  

Now, the choices are much harder to

make, despite the decline in numbers.  

The commissioners are faced with the

dilemma of wishing to fund virtually all of

them, but cannot do so for lack of funds.  

Sophistication about Japan has become

widespread across the United States, as

reflected in the proposals the Commission

now receives.    It no longer is limited to

the Japanese studies programs at major

US research universities.    Helping effect

that dissemination of knowledge across

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The Commission 2009‐2010

The Board as of December 31, 2010

Chairman:

Mr. Thierry G. Porté* **

Operating Partner

JC Flowers and Co., LLC

Vice‐Chairman:

Dr. Michael J. Green* **

Senior Advisor and Japan Chair  

Center for Strategic and International

Studies

Members:

The Honorable Kurt M. Campbell**

Assistant Secretary of State for East

Asian and Pacific Affairs

US Department of State

Mr. Willard G. Clark* **

Founder, Clark Center for Japanese

Art & Culture

Dr. Robert A. Feldman**

Managing Director

Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities

Ms. Ellen H. Hammond**

Curator, East Asia Library

Yale University

Dr. Velina Hasu Houston**

Associate Dean of Faculty

Resident Playwright

Professor of Theater

School of Theater

University of Southern California

The Honorable Rocco Landesman

Chairman

National Endowment for the Arts

The Honorable James Leach

Chairman  

National Endowment for the Humanities

The Honorable James McDermott

United States House of Representatives

The Honorable Lisa Murkowski

United States Senate

Dr. David O’Brien (until 6/10)

Spicer Professor

Department of Government

University of Virginia

The Honorable Thomas E. Petri*

United States House of Representatives

Dr. Susan J. Pharr* **

Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese

Studies

Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese

Politics

Harvard University

Ms. Amelia Porges**

Attorney, Washington, DC

The Honorable John D. Rockefeller, IV*

United States Senate

The Honorable Ann Stock* **

Assistant Secretary of State for  

Educational and Cultural Affairs

US Department of State

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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6 

The Japan‐United States Friendship

Commission in 2009‐2010

The Japan‐United States Friendship

Commission (“Commission”) is pleased to

submit this report on its thirty‐third and

thirty‐fourth years of operations for the

period October 1, 2008 to September 30,

2010, which corresponds to the federal

Fiscal Years 2009 and 2010.

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

decision‐making 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 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 Com‐

mission 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 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

non‐profit institutions in the United States
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and Japan for programs of research,

training, education and exchange.

The history of the past sixty‐five 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 complex global environment.  

Moreover, the record shows that

differences in thought patterns, value

systems, social and economic institutions

and behavior, decision‐making processes

and means of communication continue to

lead to mutual misunderstanding and

friction.    There remains a broad array of

issues that the Commission continues to

focus its increasingly limited resources on.  

In short, the Commission’s mission is as

valid today as when it was established.

There is above all a language barrier that

all too often forces each nation to react to

the other through stereotypes.    Support

for language training, especially for

advanced training for American graduate

students and professionals, occupies a

central position in the Commission’s

grant‐making activities.  There is a severe

imbalance in the amount of attention that

the media in each country devote to the

other.    Over its history, the Commission

has expended considerable resources and

effort to help generate high‐quality films

for broadcast and streaming for an

American audience.  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 cause of

these problems – knowledge to help craft

more effective policy in the management

of the relationship.  Thus, it is another of

the Commission’s purposes to help

generate and disseminate knowledge and

insight, based on the results of rigorous,

independent, 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.    Above all,

compared to thirty‐five years ago when

the Commission was established, regional

and global conditions play increasingly

pivotal roles in conditioning the bilateral

relationship, leading to the Commission’s

decision that it must take such conditions

into account in its grant‐making activities,

especially in the support of research.   

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.    It also seeks a

close, harmonious relationship with its

counterpart organization CULCON, in

focusing its grant‐making activities in

directions that will complement the

themes announced by CULCON for

exploring ways to improve and strengthen

educational and cultural relations

between Japan and the United States.  
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Program Highlights

1.  Japanese Studies in the United States

The Commission pursues as its

fundamental mandate the promotion of

expertise on Japan throughout the United

States.    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 2009

and 2010.

During this period, the most important

step the Commission took in support of

Japanese studies in the United States was

to continue 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 Alliance of

Associations of Teachers of Japanese and

the North American Coordinating Council

on Japanese Library Resources.    In this

period, it approved once again a three‐

year grant to the Northeast Asian Council

of the Association for Asian Studies.  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 renewed

statement of confidence from the

Commission.    In addition to these three

institutions, the Commission supports a

program of fellowships for advanced

research in the social sciences on Japan

with the National Endowment for the

Humanities on a three‐year cycle.    This

program has proven extremely successful,

and the Commission is pleased to

cooperate with the Endowment in its

management and support.

In previous years, the Commission had

expended a significant portion of its funds

on support for research and publication

projects on issues in Japanese economics

and security, as well as on various other

topics of interest in the US‐Japan

relationship.    The Commission deemed

these topics to have significant value to

the public interest and supported such

projects with a view to the wide

dissemination of the research results.  

Given the decline in federal interest rates

and the weakening of the dollar in the

period under review, however, the

Commission reluctantly concluded that it

would not be able to support such activity

for the foreseeable future, if it wished to

remain firm in its commitment to the

basic institutions of Japanese studies in

the United States that help keep expertise

in the field vital in all aspects of American

academic and public life.

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
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continued support of administration of

the Bridging Project Clearinghouse inside

the Association of Teachers of Japanese,

and in particular, in‐kind and financial

support for the CULCON‐initiative, the US‐

Japan Bridging Foundation, which serves

to raise funds to help send more US

undergraduates to study in Japan.  By the

end of this reporting period, the

Foundation had fulfilled its goal of

sending a second cohort of 500 American

undergraduates to Japan for a semester

or for the academic year.

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.

Through a separate grant, the

Commission worked again with the

American Political Science Association

(APSA) to support the activities of JAWS,

the Japanese American Women Political

Scientists Symposium, a research network

that meets periodically to present and

critique on‐going research in women’s

issues in Japanese and American politics.  

At the 2010 annual APSA meeting, the

group convened to present results of its

research project “Gender, Politics, Policy:  

Post‐Election,” which will be published in

outlets of the APSA.

3.  Public Affairs/Education

The Commission’s support for activities in

public affairs and education remains

strong.    Through it, the Commission

endeavors to meet the 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 period under review saw historic

elections in Japan, both in September,

2009, when a new political party took the

reins of government after a half century

of one‐party domination of politics in

Japan, and in the summer of 2010, when

the new party in power lost a critical

election for the Upper House of the

Japanese Diet.    Both events brought

unknown actors into the ongoing bilateral

dialog, with an unknown agenda.    The

situation called for the strengthening of

all possible channels of communication

between policymakers and politicians in

the two countries.

In the area of counterpart exchanges,

therefore, the Commission gave high

priority to legislative exchange programs

between the United States and Japan,

both for members of the respective

legislative bodies, and for their staff.  
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These included the US‐Japan Economic

Agenda Legislative Exchange Program

(LEP) 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

to the Woodrow Wilson International

Center and the Japan Center for

International Exchange for programs for

Congressional staff members.  During this

period, the LEP solidified its experiment to

expand the range of its exchange program

to include members of the South Korean

legislature, and to alternate the autumn

meeting site between Tokyo and Seoul.  

This innovative expansion is a unique

channel for communication among

members of the three legislative bodies in

an informal but increasingly complex

trilateral relationship.

During this period the Commission

continued to support programs in the

media.    Given the severe financial

constraints it faced, the Commission was

unable to extend support to the

production of documentary films, an

activity for which the Commission has

traditionally provided strong support.  Its

program for media support at this time

included the National Bureau of Asian

Research’s Japan Forum, an interactive

on‐line discussion forum providing daily

commentary and analysis of events

affecting Japan and US‐Japan relations

with contributors from around the globe,

and to the University of California

Berkeley School of Journalism’s innovative

program to train young journalists in new

media to practice their craft in Japan.

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 that demonstrate high

artistic merit but that have limited access

to funds for mounting their productions in

Japan, especially at venues outside Tokyo.  

In FYs 2009 and 2010 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 have spent

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

retain a staff to facilitate the program on

site.

In the exchange of performing arts

troupes, the Commission was particularly

pleased to have been able to assist an

organizing committee in Japan to bring

Steve Nelson and Lisa Paxton back to

Japan for retrospective performances of

their repertoires.    Both choreographer/

dancers had helped establish an intense

interest in Japan in contemporary

American dance in earlier decades and

now returned in the summer of 2009 to

help current practitioners in Japan

rediscover the American roots of their art.
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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, 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 period under consideration,

CULCON took on new vitality.  With newly

appointed chairmen on both sides, and

new panels, CULCON staged a highly

successful symposium in Tokyo in June,

2009 with the title “Japan and US Soft

Power:    Addressing Global Challenges”

featuring a keynote address by Dr. Joseph

Nye on the notion of soft power and a

luncheon address by Dr. Toyoo Gyoten on

the interaction of economics and soft

power.    In June, 2010, the US and

Japanese CULCON Panels held a plenary

session at the Library of Congress in

Washington, DC to review the results of

that symposium and to continue to plan

for the future, setting for themselves an

ambitious agenda to help address new

areas of interest in bilateral educational

and cultural relations that the 2009

symposium had highlighted.
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Japanese Studies in the United States FY 2009

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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 2009

October 1, 2008 ‐ September 30, 2009

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.”  

Represents project support for FY2009 and

FY2010.

87,500   

    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”

88,414 9,000,000
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Grants Awarded US Dollar

Grants

Japanese Yen

Grants

Professional Studies

    

    4. Columbia University, The Donald Keene

Center of Japanese Culture – for support of

“The Japan‐US Friendship Commission Prize

for the Translation of Japanese Literature”  

22,057   

Research     

5. Association for Asian Studies, Inc. – for

support of “NEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese

Studies”  

110,000

    

6. National Endowment for the Humanities –  

for support of “Grants for Advanced Social  

Science Research on Japan”

99,800

7. Pacific Forum CSIS – for support of “US‐

Japan‐ROK‐China Relations for the 21st

Century”   

17,000

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”

66,401   

9. United States‐Japan Bridging Foundation –

for support of “US‐Japan Bridging

Scholarships”

30,000   

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN  

THE UNITED STATES $521,172 ¥49,000,000
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The Study of the United States in Japan FY 2009

14 

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 “Change and Power:  Comparative US‐

Japan Perspectives”

  

19,436   

   2. Organization of American Historians – for

support of “JAAS/OAH Historians’

Collaborative Project”

39,161   

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF  

THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN $58,597 ¥0
__________________________________________________ FY 2009 Public Affairs/Education

15 

Grants Awarded US Dollar

Grants

Japanese Yen

Grants

C.

  

PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

   

Counterpart Exchanges     

   1. The George Washington University – for

support of “GWU US‐Japan Economic

Agenda Legislative Exchange Program for

2008 and 2009”

121,957   

2. United States Association of Former

Members of Congress – for support of

“Congressional Study Group on Japan”

15,000   

3. Woodrow Wilson Center – for support of

“2009 Congressional Staff Exchange”

47,805   

Media and Dissemination

    

   4. National Bureau of Asian Research – for

support of “Japan‐US Discussion Forum”

15,000   

   5. Tides Center – for support of Tokyo Times

(Japan Stories PART I)

15,000   

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION $214,762 ¥0
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The Arts FY 2009

16 

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 $100,000 received from

the National Endowment for the Arts.  

Grant funds for the artists in FY 2009 were

administered in Japan for the Commission

by the International House of Japan, Inc.

Artists sponsored under the exchange

fellowships:

Craig Arnold  

Patricia Chao

Kevin Danger‐James

Michele Kong

Jane Rigler

22,996 19,830,000

    American Performances/Exhibitions in Japan    

   2. Dance Documents Japan Committee – for

support of  “Touch, Contact, Bones:  Steve

Paxton + Lisa Nelson Japan Workshop”

40,000   

   3. Electronic Arts Intermix – for support of

“Past as a New Present:  Japanese and

American Video Art from the 1960s and

‘70s”

12,000   

   4. International WOW Company – for support

of “Residency and Performances with

Masataka Matsuda/Marebito No Kai in

Kyoto, Japan, 2009”  

30,000   

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $104,996 ¥19,830,000
__________________________________________________ FY 2009 Commission and CULCON Totals

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Commission Program Totals

    Japanese Studies in the United States $521,172 ¥49,000,000

    The Study of the United States in Japan 58,597 0

    Public Affairs/Education 214,762 0

    The Arts 104,996 19,830,000

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS $899,527 ¥68,830,000

CULCON Activities

    Cross Currents/Digital Culture Working Group $320   

    Action Program Task Forces 11,780   

    CULCON/Fulbright Joint Symposium:  “Japan

& US Soft Power:  Addressing Global

Challenges”

88,000   

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES $100,100   
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Funds and Expenses FY 2009

18 

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2009

    Personnel $467,767   

    General Services Administration for Payroll,  

  Accounting and Other Services

75,820   

    Office Space 82,667   

    Travel 39,329   

    Communications 4,631   

    Printing, Supplies, Publications 5,435   

    Other 53,904   

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $729,553   

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2009

    Personnel $146,900   

    Communications, Printing 700   

      Supplies    

    Website Design and Maintenance 300   

TOTAL FOR CULCON ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $147,900   
__________________________________________________ FY 2009 Funds and Expenses

19 

Appropriated Fund Income and Expense Statement  

Fiscal Year 2009 (10‐1‐08 through 9‐30‐09)

INCOME     

    Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,122,071   

    Refunds on Grants 31,225   

    Received from the US National Endowment

for the Arts

   

200,000

    Received from US Department of State for

CULCON support 248,000

TOTAL INCOME $2,601,296   

EXPENSES     

    Commission Dollar Grants $899,527   

    Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants 735,016   

    Commission Administration 729,553   

    CULCON Activities 100,100   

    CULCON Administration 147,900   

TOTAL EXPENSES $2,612,076   

GAIN OR (LOSS) (10,780)   
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Funds and Expenses FY 2009

20 

Appropriated Fund Balance

Fiscal Year 2009 (10‐1‐08 through 9‐30‐09)

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

    Fund Balance, 9‐30‐08 39,509,266   

    Income or (loss) ($10,780)   

BALANCE, 9‐30‐09 $39,498,486   

Gift Fund (non‐appropriated)

Fiscal Year 2009 (10‐1‐08 through 9‐30‐09)

    Balance, 9‐30‐08 $10,561   

    Grants 0   

    Administrative Expenses 695   

    Contributions 0   

BALANCE, 9‐30‐09 $9,866   
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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 2010

October 1, 2009 ‐ September 30, 2010

Grants Awarded US Dollar

Grants

Japanese Yen

Grants

A.

  

JAPANESE STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES

   

Language     

    1. 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     

       

    2. North American Coordinating Council on

Japanese Library Resources – for support of

“Infrastructural Support for the North

American Coordinating Council on Japanese

Library Resources”

88,414 9,000,000

   3. North American Coordinating Council on

Japanese Library Resources – for support of

the “Third Decade (3‐D) Conference:

Charting New Partnerships to Support

Japanese Studies in the Global Information

Society”

30,000   
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Japanese Studies in the United States FY 2010

22 

Grants Awarded US Dollar

Grants

Japanese Yen

Grants

Professional Studies

    

    4. Columbia University, The Donald Keene

Center of Japanese Culture – for support of

“The Japan‐US Friendship Commission Prize

for the Translation of Japanese Literature”  

22,057   

Research     

5. Association for Asian Studies, Inc. – for

support of “NEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese

Studies”  

110,000

    

6. National Endowment for the Humanities –  

for support of “Grants for Advanced Social  

Science Research on Japan”

120,800

Student Exchange     

      

7. United States‐Japan Bridging Foundation –

for support of “US‐Japan Bridging

Scholarships”

30,000   

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN  

THE UNITED STATES $401,271 ¥49,000,000
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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 Political Science Association – for

support of an Open Boundaries Workshop

“Gender, Politics and Policy:  Post

Elections”

  

36,727   

   2. American Studies Association – for support

of “Change and Power:  Comparative US‐

Japan Perspectives”

  

20,990   

   3. Organization of American Historians – for

support of “JAAS/OAH Historians’

Collaborative Project”

39,854   

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF  

THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN $97,571 ¥0
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Public Affairs/Education FY 2010

24 

Grants Awarded US Dollar

Grants

Japanese Yen

Grants

C.

  

PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

   

Counterpart Exchanges     

   1. The George Washington University – for

support of “GWU US‐Japan Economic

Agenda Legislative Exchange Program for

2009 and 2010”

120,000   

   2. Japan Center for International Exchange –

for support of “US Congressional Staff

Exchange Program in Japan”

37,000   

   3. United States Association of Former

Members of Congress – for support of

“Congressional Study Group on Japan”

20,000   

Media and Dissemination

    

   3. Museum of the City of New York – for

support of “The Japanese Discovery of New

York”

5,000   

   4. National Bureau of Asian Research – for

support of “Japan‐US Discussion Forum”

15,000   

   5. Tides Center – for support of  Okinawa

Reporting Stories (Japan Stories PART II)

15,000   

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION $212,000 ¥0
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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 US 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 2010 were

administered in Japan for the Commission

by the International House of Japan, Inc.

Artists sponsored under the exchange

fellowships:

Isaac Bradford  

John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson (joint

fellowship)

Robert Hutchison

Katerina Lanfranco

Elizabeth McKenzie

29,258 21,030,000

    Performances/Exhibitions in Japan    

   2. Battery Dance Company – for partial

support of  “Dancing to Connect:  Japan

Tour”

39,464   

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $68,722 ¥21,030,000
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Commission and CULCON Totals FY 2010

26 

Commission Program Totals

    Japanese Studies in the United States $401,271 ¥49,000,000

    The Study of the United States in Japan 97,571 0

    Public Affairs/Education 212,000 0

    The Arts 68,722 21,030,000

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS $779,564 ¥70,030,000

CULCON Activities

    Action Program Task Forces $10,030   

    CULCON XXIV Plenary Session 73,170

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES $83,200   
__________________________________________________ FY 2010 Funds and Expenses

27 

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2010

    Personnel $485,625   

    General Services Administration for Payroll,  

  Accounting and Other Services

82,036   

    Office Space 82,696   

    Travel 43,708   

    Communications 4,890   

    Printing, Supplies, Publications 2,953   

    Other 21,866   

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $723,774   

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2010

    Personnel $163,800   

    Communications, Printing, 700   

      Supplies    

    Website Design and Maintenance 300   

TOTAL FOR CULCON ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $164,800   
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Funds and Expenses FY 2010

28 

Appropriated Fund Income and Expense Statement  

Fiscal Year 2010 (10‐1‐09 through 9‐30‐10)

INCOME     

    Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,112,116   

    Refunds on Grants 62,894   

    Received from the US National Endowment

for the Arts

   

100,000

    Received from US Department of State for

CULCON support

248,000

TOTAL INCOME $2,523,010   

EXPENSES     

    Commission Dollar Grants $779,564   

    Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants 772,580   

    Commission Administration 723,774   

    CULCON Activities 83,200   

    CULCON Administration 164,800   

TOTAL EXPENSES $2,523,918   

GAIN OR (LOSS) ($908)   
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29 

Appropriated Fund Balance

Fiscal Year 2010 (10‐1‐09 through 9‐30‐10)

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

    Fund Balance, 9‐30‐09 39,498,486   

    Income or (loss) ($908)   

BALANCE, 9‐30‐10 $39,497,578   

Gift Fund (non‐appropriated)

Fiscal Year 2010 (10‐1‐09 through 9‐30‐10)

    Balance, 9‐30‐09 $9,866   

    Grants 0   

    Administrative Expenses 2,732   

    Contributions 555   

BALANCE, 9‐30‐10 $7,689