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Japan-United States Friendship Commission 1999-2000 

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 cooperating non-profit 

entities in the following areas:

—Japanese Studies in the United States

—Policy-Oriented Research

—Public Affairs/Education

—The Study of the United States in Japan

—The Arts

—Infrastructure Building

A Message From 

The Chairman

I am pleased to present the Commission's Biennial Report for Fiscal Years 1999 

and 2000.

This has been a period of great advancement for the Commission. The 

amendment to the Commission’s enabling legislation enacted late in 1998 has led 

to a situation of stable finances for the Commission's operations, after several 

years of uncertainty. An inspection of the Commission's appropriated dollar fund 

at the end of FY 2000 shows a net gain in the value of the fund after almost five 

years of drawing on principal and reinvesting interest to help a number of the 

Commission’s most critical programs keep operating.

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This period of financial stability has provided the Commission Board an 

opportunity for creative thinking about its programs and priorities. During it, the 

Commission organized several outside reviews and devoted considerable effort to 

internal discussion of its future direction. 

Of greatest concern has been the general notion that the late 1990s has been a 

period of "Japan passing." As American attention in foreign affairs has shifted to 

other parts of the world, and particularly to other areas of Asia, there has in fact 

been a decline in the sheer volume of attention paid to Japan and US-Japan 

relations. For its part, the Commission has witnessed a decline in the number of 

proposals it received for its grantmaking competitions in this period.

While many have decried this situation, the Commission has viewed it as an 

opportunity. The quantity of attention may have decreased, but the quality has 

improved immeasurably over this past decade, in the Commission’s view. A 

decade ago, it was a relatively easy matter for the Board to select the few strong 

proposals from among the many relatively naive or weak submissions. Now, 

proposals coming in are virtually all worthy of support. Finding a way to 

accommodate the broad range of high quality ventures the Commission now sees 

is far more difficult than in the past, even with its improved financial situation.

It is clear to the Commission that there has been a solid gain in the education of 

the American public on realities about Japan, and the Commission takes pride in 

having been one means for having achieved that goal. In light of this, the Board 

concluded at the end of its two-year review of programs and priorities to maintain 

them intact, while fine-tuning the exact scope of projects they would support. 

This new stable financial base has also resulted in a period of high Commission 

activism. By this, I refer to the Commission’s interest in shaping the proposals it 

chooses to support, particularly under the rubric of "Infrastructure Building" as 

described in the narrative that follows. Here we find a set of highly focused 

programs to provide an administrative base for newly emerging areas of cultural 

and educational exchange. The Board has concluded that these programs best fit 

the Commission’s new financial structure and mission of improving understanding 

between Japan and the United States. The Commission stands apart in the 

community of US-Japan funding agencies in its willingness to provide direct 

support for the administrative costs of startup ventures in research, education and 

exchange.

I would also like to say a word about the Commission’s most recent field of 

activity: helping raise funds for the US-Japan Bridging Foundation. In 1993, the 

bilateral advisory panel CULCON set as its highest priority the goal of increasing 

the number of American undergraduates studying in Japan. While the 

Commission, in conjunction with its several counterpart funding organizations, 

helped organize administrative structures that would facilitate such exchanges, it 

could not directly address the core issue: the high cost of a year of study in Japan. 

The Commission does not provide individual fellowships or scholarships. 

Thus, in 1998 the Commission created the US-Japan Bridging Foundation, a 

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private-sector non-profit to raise funds for scholarships. It set as its goal a fund of 

$2M to help send a new wave of undergraduates to study in Japan. Ultimately, the 

Commission believes, this new generation of "Bridging Scholars" will help 

establish a track record on US campuses of study abroad programs in Japan for 

all students, regardless of their majors. Thus far, the Foundation, in cooperation 

with the Commission, has raised nearly $1M, or half its goal, for its scholarship 

program. It has also sent Bridging Scholars to Japan for the 1999-2000 and 2000-

20001 academic years. We are very encouraged by these results and look 

forward to successful completion of this campaign.

In closing, I note this is the last report I will be making to you on behalf of the 

Commission. I would like to thank the many commissioners with whom I have 

worked so closely over my two terms as Chairman. Each in his or her capacity is 

admirably equipped to direct this Commission with finely honed professional skills 

and excellent powers of discretion and judgment. Above all, to a person, the 

commissioners share a dedication to improving US-Japan educational and 

cultural relations as a personal goal. I would also like to thank the Commission 

officers and staff for their outstanding job of managing the affairs of the 

Commission.

Richard J. Wood

Chairman

January, 2001

The Commission, 1999-2000

Chairman:

Dr. Richard J. Wood* **

President, United Board for Christian

Higher Education in Asia

Dean Emeritus, Yale Divinity School

Vice-Chairman:

Mr. Glen S. Fukushima* ** 

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President & CEO

Cadence Design Systems, Japan

Members:

Mr. Burnill F. Clark** 

President & CEO, KCTS TV, Seattle

Mr. Lawrence J. Ellison**

Chairman & CEO, Oracle Corporation

The Honorable Joseph D. Duffey* ** 

Director, United States Information Agency 

(ending January 31, 1999)

The Honorable William E. Ferris, Jr. 

Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities

The Honorable A. Lee Fritschler** 

Assistant Secretary of Education for Post-Secondary Education, (from November 17, 1999)

Dr. Carol Gluck* ** 

George Sansom Professor of Japanese History

Columbia University

The Honorable William Ivey 

Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts

Mr. Jeffrey M. Lepon* ** 

Managing Partner 

Lepon McCarthy White & Holzworth, PLLC

The Honorable Evelyn S. Lieberman* ** 

Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, (from October 15, 1999)

The Honorable David Longanecker** 

Assistant Secretary of Education for Post-Secondary Education, (ending June 12, 1999)

The Honorable Stanley Roth** 

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Mr. Thomas E. McLain** 

Partner, Sidley & Austin

The Honorable Frank H. Murkowski 

United States Senate

The Honorable Thomas Petri* 

United States House of Representatives

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The Honorable John D. Rockefeller IV* 

United States Senate

Mr. George H. Takei** 

Actor/Writer

Mr. Ira Wolf** 

Office of Senator Max Baucus

The Honorable Robert Wise 

United States House of Representatives

Staff: 

Dr. Eric J. Gangloff 

Executive Director

Ms. Margaret P. Mihori 

Assistant Executive Director

Ms. Pamela L. Fields

Assistant Executive Director, CULCON

Ms. Roberta S. Stewart

Secretary

Head Office: 

1120 Vermont Ave., NW, Suite 925 

Washington, DC 20005 

Tel. (202) 418-9800 

Fax. (202) 418-9802 

jusfc@jusfc.gov

www.jusfc.gov

Japan Liaison Office: 

c/o Program Office 

International House of Japan, Inc. 

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Minato-ku, Tokyo 106, Japan 

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*Members of the Executive Committee 

**Members of the US CULCON Panel

The JUSFC in 1999-2000

The Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC) is pleased to submit 

this report on its twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of operations for the period 

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October 1, 1998 to September 30, 2000, which corresponds to the federal Fiscal 

Years 1999 and 2000.

Background and Overview

The JUSFC is an independent federal agency, dedicated to providing 

opportunities for research, training, education and exchange between the United 

States and Japan. In passing the Japan-United States Friendship Act (PL 94-118) 

in 1975 to establish the Commission, Congress acknowledged the unique 

character and great importance of the relationship between Japan and the United 

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

and cultural exchange programs at the people-to-people level. It was searching 

for the means to develop the knowledge, the leaders and the friendly associations 

which in turn would improve the likelihood that any problems that might arise on 

the national level could be resolved on a basis of mutual understanding and 

respect.

Thus the Congress established the Commission, a unique federal agency whose 

purpose is to promote friendship and understanding with a single foreign country. 

In the Friendship Act, it also appropriated the Japan-United States Friendship 

Trust Fund, an endowment denominated in both yen and dollars with a combined 

value of approximately $36M at the exchange rate then in effect. These two funds 

represented a portion of the money paid by Japan to compensate the United 

States for post-World War II assistance, and for certain public facilities on 

Okinawa at the time of the reversion of the Ryukyus. The former payment became 

the yen fund, and the latter the dollar fund. The Commission was authorized to 

invest the Fund in government obligations, and to expend the interest earnings, 

subject to annual appropriation, and up to five percent annually of the principal of 

the Fund to carry out the purposes of the Act. In 1982, the Act was amended to 

permit the Commission to invest any gifts it may receive and to spend the 

principal and interest earnings t without reference to the appropriations process. 

The Act was amended again in 1998 to make the dollar and yen funds 

interchangeable at the Commission's discretion, allowing it to seek the highest 

return on its investments in government obligations in either or both of the two 

countries.

Although governmental, the Commission operates much like a private foundation. 

It is composed of a board of eighteen com-missioners and a permanent staff of 

four. 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 binational advisory board to the two governments in 

educational and cultural affairs. The Board's responsibility is to manage the Trust 

Fund, principally by investing it and using the proceeds to make grants to 

institutions in the United States and Japan to develop programs of educational 

and cultural exchange.

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The JUSFC mission remains as valid now as when it was established. The 

relationship between Japan and the United States has no counterpart. In sheer 

size, in its variety and complexity, and in its mixture of cooperation and 

competition, friendship and rivalry, it stands alone.

The relationship stands on a fragile base. Obviously, as the history of the past fifty 

years demonstrates, 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. Moreover, the record of that relationship shows that 

differences in thought patterns, value systems, social and economic behavior, 

decision-making processes and means of communication can readily lead to 

mutual misunderstanding and friction. There is above all a language barrier that 

all too often forces each nation to react to the other through stereotypes. There is 

a severe imbalance in the amount of attention that the media in the two countries 

devote to each other. Finally, there is 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, leading to mutual 

deliberation and wise policy. Clearly, we need new ways of thinking about 

management of the relationship. It is the Commission’s purpose to help make 

available the expertise and information necessary both for productive deliberation 

and effective policy.

The Commission today has a new sense of purpose and a more focused program 

of activity to meet the conditions both of its financial management and of the 

bilateral relationship. It asks that the projects it supports take cognizance of the 

contemporary 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 American Education

The Commission pursues as its fundamental mandate the promotion of expertise 

on Japan throughout the American public. Its primary means of accomplishing this 

goal is through the maintenance of the vitality of Japanese studies in institutions 

of American higher education and associated professional organizations. Thus, as 

has been the case in previous years, Japanese studies in American education 

remains the largest single category of Commission support in this period.

To help support basic research in the field, the Commission continued its practice 

in both fiscal years of making block grants to the Social Science Research Council 

and the Northeast Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies. These two 

organizations provide support from the Commission’s grants for individual 

research projects on the contemporary Japanese political economy and society, 

selected through peer review. In support of Japanese language library collections 

and information management, the Commission continued its support of the North 

American Coordinating Council for Japanese Library Resources. In support of 

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advanced Japanese language training, the Commission continued to provide 

major support to the Interuniversity Center for Japanese Language Studies in 

Yokohama. In addition, it made a major grant to the Association of Teachers of 

Japanese (ATJ) in FY 2000 to begin a two-year assessment of the state of 

advanced Japanese language training available to American university students. 

Also, it provided support in FY 1999 for two years’ effort to build, under its 

infrastructure building initiative, the Alliance of Associations of Teachers of 

Japanese (AATJ). This new coordinating structure will help create a seamless 

transition of Japanese language study from the K-12 level into the university as its 

work progresses, as well as a unified Japanese language standard. 

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

high degree of coordination between Commission support in Japanese studies 

and CULCON projects. 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 ATJ, continued 

support of the faculty and curriculum development project first at the AAC&U and 

later at the University of Pennsylvania, and in particular, support for the US-Japan 

Bridging Foundation, which serves to raise funds to help send more US 

undergraduates to study in Japan, a longstanding CULCON priority.

2. The Study of the United States in Japanese Education

This category, perhaps more than any other in the period under report, 

demonstrates the Commission's new sense of activism in shaping programs to its 

own interest and specifications. During this period the Commission continued its 

longstanding support of a program of exchanges between members of the 

American Studies Association of the United States and of the Japanese 

Association of American Studies, as well as between members of the 

Organization of American Historians and their colleagues in Japan. Satisfied with 

the results of these two projects, the Commission approached the American 

Political Science Association to begin a similar project in FY 2000 of short-term 

exchanges and residencies in the two countries. Again, in FY 2000 it initiated 

discussions with the Economic History Association to begin a similar program in 

the future. Through this approach, 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.

3. Policy-Oriented Research

Since the mid-1980s, the Commission has made a concerted effort to take an 

active stance vis-à-vis the US-Japan relationship and the serious policy 

challenges facing both countries in learning to manage that relationship more 

effectively. It has done this by placing emphasis on support of policy research 

projects. The Commission places high priority on projects that deal with US-Japan 

economic, political and security policies.

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In sponsoring policy research projects the Commission intends that the results of 

these research efforts be pertinent to policymakers concerned with Japan in the 

Congress, the executive branch, various think tanks, academe and the media. It 

also bases consideration of support of proposals on the degree to which the 

project directors can assure the Commission of a solid dissemination plan to take 

the results of the research to those most concerned with policies that guide US 

management of the bilateral relationship.

Of particular interest in FY 1999 were projects to convene a trilateral US-JapanChina dialog on weapons proliferation control, and research projects on Japan’s 

domestic competition policies and on the structural rigidities in Japan’s domestic 

economy. In FY 2000, of particular interest was a project in the politics of Japan’s 

telecommunications deregulation. In both fiscal years, the Commission continued 

its support of a program to train young academics and journalists in Japan in 

policy dialog through a fellowship program at the Research Institute for Peace and 

Security in Tokyo.

4. Public Affairs/Education

In this category, the Commission endeavors to meet the growing demand for 

information on Japan throughout the United States. It emphasizes projects that 

disseminate information on major issues and potential areas of cooperation 

between the two countries. These projects fall under two sub-headings: 

Counterpart Exchanges and Media.

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

priority to legislative exchange programs between the United States and Japan. In 

FY 1999 and FY 2000, these included the US-Japan Economic Agenda 

Legislative Exchange Program at George Washington University for meetings 

between Japanese Diet members and the members of the US Congress, and the 

United States Association of Former Members of Congress for the Congressional 

Japanese Study Group. For exchanges in the US Senate, the Commission 

continued its support of the work of the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs, most 

recently in FY 2000. In addition, through the Congressional Economic Leadership 

Institute, the Commission continued its program of support for week-long study 

tours of Japan by senior congressional staff. The Commission will continue to 

place priority on support for legislative exchanges for the foreseeable future.

Of particular interest in the Commission's support of programs in the media was 

the application of its infrastructure building initiative to the emerging field of 

multimedia. In FY 1999 the Commission made its last administrative grant to the 

Japan Connection, a multimedia production center housed at KCTS TV of Seattle 

that produces a wide variety of informative programming for multimedia outlets. In 

FY 2000, it made its first grant to the Japan Connection in direct support of a 

documentary production project, to help launch a three-part series on the story of 

the Japanese-American experience in the United States for broadcast on high 

definition TV.

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Again, under the infrastructure building initiative, and as a result of the most 

recent CULCON initiative, the Commission made a grant in FY 1999 to San Diego 

State University for technical assistance in building a new bilingual website to 

document US-Japan cultural and educational exchange and mutual influence in 

the postwar era. This will be previewed at the CULCON XX plenary session in Los 

Angeles in May, 2001.

Perhaps of greatest significance in this category was the termination of the 

Commission’s long-standing program of support for the startup costs of new 

Japan America societies in the United States. Begun with gifts from the Japanese 

government in the 1980s, the Commission expended the last of these special gift 

funds in FY 1999. Beginning with only a few societies in the major cities on the 

two coasts, the Commission views the current network of over 35 societies spread 

across the United States as one of its great success stories. These societies, and 

its parent organization, the National Association of Japan-America Societies, play 

a major role in the education of the American public on contemporary Japanese 

society and culture and in the management of the relationship at regional and 

local levels. In the future the Commission will consider support only for public 

affairs programs that can be shared among the societies nationwide.

5. The Arts

The Commission continues to support projects in the arts of the highest merit, in 

the firm belief that they can help foster better understanding between the two 

countries at a time when they face increasing strain over trade deficits and other 

current issues. It recognizes that it must take an increasingly selective approach 

to funding in this field, given pressure in other program areas. Thus beginning in 

FY 1999, the Commission set as its priority in the arts support for projects to send 

American exhibitions and performing arts to Japan.

In both fiscal years the Commission continued to work closely with the National 

Endowment for the Arts and the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs in 

sponsoring the US-Japan Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship Program. The 

annual competition for the five fellowships draws hundreds of applications from 

established artists in a wide range of disciplines from throughout the United 

States. The recipients spend six months in Japan, immersed in Japanese culture 

and its manifestations in their particular fields and training in the arts. In addition, 

the Commission continued to provide support to the International House of Japan 

to hire an expert to facilitate the program on site. In FY 2000, the Commission 

upgraded the program by adding a fund for resident Fellows to use for 

collaborative projects while they are in Japan.

Once again, building on the synergy developed between CULCON and the 

Commission, the latter provided a grant to the Japanese American National 

Museum of Los Angeles in FY 2000 to showcase the work of selected participants 

of the Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship Program. The Museum will be the site 

of the CULCON XX plenary session in May, 2001. On this occasion, the 

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Commission will not only display the talents of the American artists who have 

enriched their art through the experience of a residency in Japan, but also hold a 

public discussion on the effect that international exchange has on artistic creativity.

6. 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 

discussion held in 1961 between President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister 

Hayato Ikeda.

Beginning in 1978, CULCON became a program of the United States Information 

Agency, reverting to Department of State oversight with the consolidation of 

foreign affairs agencies in 1999. In 1991, permanent secretariats were established 

in Tokyo and Washington to provide continuity to CULCON activities. The US 

Secretariat was established inside the JUSFC. Since 1991, US CULCON has 

become a highly visible, proactive organization, emphasizing the implementation 

of CULCON recommendations, frequently with the Commission’s professional and 

financial support.

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

undergraduate educational exchange and information access. There also was 

considerable activity in media cooperation. Breaking with precedent, CULCON 

held its nineteenth plenary session outside Tokyo and Washington, in Naha, 

Okinawa in February, 1999. CULCON XIX provided the opportunity to review 

activities to date and to recommend a new joint initiative in digital archiving. Since 

then, the work of the Digital Culture Working Group has been the highest priority 

of CULCON, helping it harness the power of the Internet to its mission of 

improving educational and cultural relations between the two countries.

Support for this Working Group has been provided by the Commission in the form 

of a grant to San Diego State University to help build this archive, the Digital 

Cultural Resource, an innovative teaching resource on US-Japan cultural and 

educational relations over the past fifty years. This and several other important 

CULCON initiatives have provided the impetus for much of the Commission’s new 

activism in shaping the projects that it supports. The record of this new 

cooperation between the two entities is found in the narrative of the Commission’s 

grantmaking activities in 1999 and 2000 in Sections 1-5 above.

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

Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 1999

October 1, 1998 - September 30, 1999

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Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

A. JAPANESE 

STUDIES IN 

AMERICAN 

EDUCATION

Faculty and 

Curriculum 

Development

1. Association of American 

Colleges & Universities 

(AAC&U) – for support of a 

faculty and curriculum 

development seminar on Japan

70,725

2. The University of Pennsylvania

– for continued support of a 

faculty and curriculum 

development seminar on Japan 

in FY 2000

71,875

Language

3. Alliance of Associations of 

Teachers of Japanese --for 

infrastructure support for the 

Alliance for a two-year period

148,750

4. Stanford University, for the 

Interuniversity Center for 

Japanese Language Studies 

in Yokohama – for advanced 

Japanese language training 

for American graduate 

students

40,000,000

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Libraries

5. International House of Japan

– for provision of information 

on the Internet regarding 

International House’s library 

resources 

5,500,000

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

6. National Coordinating Committee on 

Japanese Library Resources – for 

support of continuation and 

expansion of activities for FY 1999 

and support of the National Program 

for Coordinated Japanese Library 

Acquisitions of Multi-Volume Sets, 

and for a planning meeting of 

Japanese librarians to set an agenda 

for the coming decade

91,444 10,000,000

Professional 

Development

7. Association of Teachers of Japanese 

– for scholarship and administrative 

support of Bridging Project 

Clearinghouse for Study Abroad in 

Japan

85,935

Research

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8. Association for Asian Studies, Inc. – 

for the various programs of the 

Northeast Asia Council of the 

Association to promote the teaching 

and study of Japan in the United 

States for FY 1999 and FY 2000

124,832 7,200,000

9. Social Science Research Council – 

for fellowship and administrative 

support for advanced research on 

Japan by American scholars

80,575 6,000,000

Other

10. Pacific Basin Institute – for support of 

the project "Japan And America: The 

Near and Far Future"

6,000

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE 

STUDIES IN AMERICAN 

EDUCATION

$680,136 ¥68,700,000 

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

B. THE STUDY OF 

THE UNITED 

STATES IN 

JAPANESE 

EDUCATION

Research 

Centers

1. Doshisha University, Center for 

American Studies --for support 

of the activities of the Center

2,330,000

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Faculty and 

Curriculum 

Development

2. American Studies Association

– for support of Years Two and 

Three of the project "JapanUnited States Dialogues 

Across the Pacific: 

Globalization and American 

Studies"

8,000 2,100,000

3. Organization of American 

Historians –for support of 

Years Three and Four of the 

project "Short-term 

Residencies in Japan for US 

Historians" and for 

development of a collaborative 

network of scholarly exchanges 

among historians in Japan and 

the US

20,594 3,891,312

Other

4. New York Foundation for the 

Arts – for support of the project 

"Conversation Continued"

22,680

TOTAL FOR THE 

STUDY OF THE 

UNITED STATES IN 

JAPANESE 

EDUCATION 

$51,274 ¥8,321,312

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

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C. POLICYORIENTED 

RESEARCH

1. The Brookings Institution – 

for support of the project 

"Japan’s Structural 

Rigidities"

50,000

2. Economic Strategy Institute

– for support of the projects 

"A WTO Competition Policy 

Agreement and USJapanese Trade Relations" 

and "Japan and the United 

States Reconsidered: The 

Evolution of Japanese 

Security and Economic 

Strategy Since 1960"

101,323

3. Edwin O. Reischauer 

Center for East Asian 

Studies – for support of the 

project "Bridging the 

Antitrust Divide in USJapan Relations"

10,005

4 Japan Information Access 

Project – for support of the 

projects "Pentagon Study 

Group on Japan & 

Northeast Asia" and 

"American Scholarship on 

Japan: A Program for 

Public Policy Dissemination"

144,475

5. The Mansfield Center for 

Pacific Affairs – for support 

of the project "The Rule of 

Law and Its Acceptance in 

Asia"

43,900

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6. Pacific Forum CSIS – for 

support of Year One of the 

project "United States, 

Japan and China: 

Developing Stable Trilateral 

Ties"

20,350

7. Research Institute for 

Peace and Security – for 

support of Year Two of the 

project "Strategic Studies 

Fellowship Program"

1,660,000

8. University of Colorado, 

Boulder – for support of the 

project "Patent Systems, 

Licensing Agreements, and 

Joint Ventures in the 

Context of US-Japan 

Competition Policy"

25,662

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

9. University of Georgia Research 

Foundation, Inc. – for support of 

the project "Efforts to Control 

Weapons Proliferation: Japan, 

the People’s Republic of China 

and the United States."

40,250

TOTAL FOR POLICYORIENTED RESEARCH

$435,965 ¥1,660,000

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Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

D. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/

EDUCATION

Outreach 

Programs 

1. Japan-America Society of 

New Mexico – for 

administrative support for 

the third and final year

30,000

2. Japan Society of San Diego

– for administrative support 

for the third and final year

30,000

3. National Association of 

Japan-America Societies –

for support of the 

teleconference project 

"2020 Vision: A Digital Road 

Map for Policies and 

Priorities in the US-Japan 

Relationship for the 21st

Century" and for support of 

the NAJAS 20th anniversary 

conference 

77,319

Counterpart 

Exchanges

4. Congressional Economic 

Leadership Institute – for 

support of the project "1999 

US-Japan Educational 

Exchange Program"

41,900 4,180,000

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5. The George Washington 

University – for support of 

the project "GWU US-Japan 

Economic Agenda 

Legislative Exchange 

Program for 1999"

110,539 1,950,000

6. International House of 

Japan --for services for 

American educational, 

cultural and professional 

institutions for FY 1999 and 

FY 2000

17,000,000

7. Japan Center for 

International Exchange, Inc.

– for support of the project 

"US-Japan Legislative 

Policy Dialogue Project on 

Common Challenges of 

Governance and Their 

Implications on Enhancing 

the Cooperative US-Japan 

Relationship"

30,000

8. US Association of Former 

Members of Congress – for 

support of the project 

"Congressional Study Group 

on Japan" and other 

congressional exchange 

programs

35,616

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

Media and 

Dissemination

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9. Japan Information Access 

Project – for support of the 

project "American 

Scholarship on Japan: A 

Dissemination Plan"

50,000

10. Japan Policy Research 

Institute – for support of the 

documentary "Cold War 

Island: The Battle for 

Okinawa"

15,000

11. KCTS Television - for 

support of Year Three of the 

project "Japan Connection: 

A Multi-media Production 

Center"

75,000

12. Pacific Basin Institute – for 

support of the project 

"Bridge to the Rising Sun"

27,275

13. San Diego State University

– for support of the 

project "Digital Culture 

Resource"

125,209

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC 

AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

$647,858 ¥23,130,000

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

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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 1999 are 

administered in Japan for 

the Commission by the 

International House of 

Japan, Inc. Yen funds are 

provided for the ensuing 

program year.

Artists sponsored under the 

exchange fellowships:

John Farrell

Jeanne Larsen

Juliet Kono Lee

Robert Martin

Kim Teru Yasuda

23,445 21,040,000

American 

Performances 

and Exhibitions in 

Japan

2. Studio Malaparte – for 

support of a collaborative 

workshop with film director 

Rob Nilsson

1,000,000

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3. Yokohama Museum of Art – 

for support of a retrospective 

of the works of Frederick 

Wiseman 

2,000,000

Japanese 

Performances and 

Exhibitions in the 

United States

4. Smithsonian Institution, 

National Museum of Natural 

History – for support of 

publication of the 

educational catalog 

accompanying the exhibit 

"Ainu–Spirit of a Northern 

People"

50,000

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $73,445 ¥24,040,000

Commission Program 

Totals

Japanese Studies in American 

Education

$ 680,136 ¥ 68,700,000

The Study of the United States in 

Japanese Education 

51,274 8,321,312

Policy-Oriented Research 435,965 1,660,000

Public Affairs/Education 647,858 23,130,000

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The Arts 73,445 24,040,000

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION 

PROGRAMS

$1,888,678 ¥125,851,312

CULCON Activities 

(Funded by Transfer from US Information Agency)

Undergraduate Educational 

Exchange Oversight 

Committee

$ 2,270

Information Access Working 

Group

3,760

Digital Culture Working Group 11,680

CULCON XIX Plenary Session 42,450

TOTAL FOR CULCON 

ACTIVITIES 

$60,160

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 1999

Personnel $328,905

General Services Administration for 

Payroll, Accounting and Other 

Services

34,483

Office Space 36,174

Travel 10,368

Communications 7,757

Printing, Supplies, Publications 12,941

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Equipment 4,411

Other 28,219

TOTAL FOR 

COMMISSION 

ADMINISTRATIVE 

COSTS

$463,258

Fundraising Expenses of the Commission in FY 

1999

Travel 2,720

Communications 1,178

Consultant fee 47,865

TOTAL FOR 

COMMISSION 

FUNDRAISING COSTS

$51,763

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 1999

Personnel $91,711

Communications 200

Supplies 200

Other 200

TOTAL FOR CULCON 

ADMINISTRATIVE 

COSTS

$92,311

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Appropriated Dollar Fund Income and Expense Statement 

Fiscal Year 1999

(10-1-98 through 9-30-99)

INCOME

Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,795,950

Refunds on Grants 79,039

Received from US Airforce 68,000

Received from the National 

Endowment for the Arts

75,000

Received from the US 

Information Agency for 

CULCON support

152,471

TOTAL INCOME $3,170,460

EXPENSES

Commission Grants $1,888,678

Commission Administration 463,258

Fundraising Expenses 51,763

CULCON Activities 60,160

CULCON Administration 92,311

TOTAL EXPENSE $2,556,170

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GAIN OR (LOSS) $614,290

Appropriated Dollar Fund Balance

Fiscal Year 1999

(10-1-98 through 9-30-99)

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

Fund Balance, 9-30-98 15,537,275

Income or (loss) 614,290

Transfer from Yen Account 27,588,192

BALANCE, 9-30-99 $43,739,757

Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 1999

(10-1-98 through 9-30-99)

Balance, 9-30-98 $3

Grants 0

Administrative Expenses 2,622

Refunds on Grants 10,139

BALANCE, 9-30-99 $7,520

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Bridging Project Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 1999

(10-1-98 through 9-30-99)

Balance, 9-30-98 $112,614

Cash/Par 1,230

Contributions 70,000

Grants 185,000

Administrative Expenses 125

Interest 2,487

BALANCE, 9-30-99 $1,206

Appropriated Yen Fund Income and Expense Statement

Fiscal Year 1999

(10-1-98 through 9-30-99)

INCOME

Cash 131,946,163

Interest 20,000

Refunds on Grants 966,039

TOTAL INCOME ¥132,932,202

EXPENSES

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Grants ¥125,851,312

Administration 6,156,905

Fees 3,314,463

TOTAL EXPENSE ¥135,322,680

GAIN OR (LOSS) (¥2,390,478)

Appropriated Yen Fund Balance 

Original Appropriation Received, 

11-1-76

¥3,615,429,455

Balance Received, 10-22-79 325,683,316

Fund Balance, 9-30-98 3,295,868,834

Income or (loss) (¥2,390,478)

Funds Transferred to Dollar 

Account

3,293,478,356

BALANCE, 9-30-99 ¥0

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

Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2000

October 1, 1999 - September 30, 2000

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

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A. JAPANESE 

STUDIES IN 

AMERICAN 

EDUCATION

Faculty and 

Curriculum 

Development

1. University of Pennsylvania – for 

continued support of the project 

"The 2000 Faculty and 

Curriculum Development 

Seminar on Japan"

98,125

Language

2. Association of Teachers of 

Japanese – for support of the 

project "Assessment of 

Advanced Japanese Training"

84,053

3. Stanford University, for the 

Interuniversity Center for 

Japanese Language Studies in 

Yokohama – for advanced 

Japanese language training for 

American graduate students 

40,000,000

Libraries

4. Association of Research 

Libraries – for support of the 

project "Improving Access to 

Japanese Serials and 

Newspapers"

21,400

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5. North American Coordinating 

Council on Japanese Library 

Resources – for continuation 

and expansion of activities, and 

support of the National 

Program for Coordinated 

Japanese Library Acquisitions 

of Multi-Volume Sets and 

External User Services for FY 

2000

68,750 10,000,000

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

Professional 

Studies

6. Association of Teachers of Japanese

– for scholarship and administrative 

support of Bridging Project 

Clearinghouse for Study Abroad in 

Japan

80,945

7. Columbia University, The Donald 

Keene Center of Japanese Culture – 

for support of the project "The JapanUS Friendship Commission Prize for 

the Translation of Japanese 

Literature"

19,157

Research

8. Princeton University – for support of 

the project "National Identity and 

Public Policy in Comparative 

Perspective"

8,652

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9. Social Science Research Council --

for fellowship and administrative 

support for advanced research on 

Japan by American scholars

82,500 6,000,000

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE 

STUDIES IN AMERICAN 

EDUCATION

$463,582 ¥56,000,000

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

B. THE STUDY OF 

THE UNITED 

STATES IN 

JAPANESE 

EDUCATION

Faculty and 

Curriculum 

Development

1. American Political Science 

Association – for support of 

the workshop entitled 

"Women and Politics in 

Comparative Perspective"

37,918

2. SFC Institute, Keio 

University – for support of 

the seminar entitled "The 

Analysis of the Loci of 

‘America’ in Japan Today"

27,600

TOTAL FOR THE 

STUDY OF THE 

UNITED STATES IN 

JAPANESE EDUCATION

$65,518 ¥0

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Grants Awarded

US Dollar Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

C. POLICYORIENTED 

RESEARCH

1. Harvard University – 

for support of the 

project "Civil Society 

in the Asia-Pacific"

50,000

2. The Nautilus 

Institute – for 

support of the 

project "Policy 

Assessment of East 

Asia Theater Missile 

Defense and US 

National Policy"

38,020

3. Purdue University – 

for support of the 

project "The Politics 

of 

Telecommunication 

Regulation"

78,360

4. Research Institute 

for Peace and 

Security – for 

support of the third 

and final year of the 

project "Strategic 

Studies Fellowship 

Program"

865,000

TOTAL FOR POLICYORIENTED 

RESEARCH 

$166,380 ¥865,000

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Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

D. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/

EDUCATION

Outreach 

Programs

1. Capital Children’s Museum – 

for support of the project 

"Japan: Through the Eyes of a 

Child"

5,000

2. Edwin O. 

Reischauer 

Center for East 

Asian Studies – 

for support of the 

project "Okinawa 

and its 

Relationship with 

the United States: 

The G7 Summit 

Meeting and 

Beyond"

5,000

3. Global Film 

Network – for 

support of a 

project to screen 

the documentary 

"After America...

After Japan"

10,000

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4. Japan-America Society of 

Washington, DC – for support 

of the project "21st Annual 

National Association of JapanAmerica Societies Conference"

28,693

5. National Association of JapanAmerica Societies – for support 

of updating "On The Record" 

data, and the project "2020 

Vision: A Digital Road Map for 

Policies and Priorities in the USJapan Relationship in the 21st 

Century"

59,761

6. New York Foundation for the 

Arts – for support of Year Two 

of the project "Conversation 

Continued"

49,680

Counterpart 

Exchanges

7. The George Washington 

University --for support of the 

project "GWU US-Japan 

Economic Agenda 2000 

Legislative Exchange Program"

116,647 1,950,000

8. The Mansfield Center for 

Pacific Affairs – for support of 

the project "The Mansfield 

Study Group on Asia"

50,000

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

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9. US Association of Former 

Members of Congress – for 

support of the project 

"Congressional Study Group on 

Japan"

31,000

Media/Dissemination

10. Catticus Corporation – for 

support of the documentary 

"Sumo East and West"

25,000

11. KCTS Television – for support of 

the documentary "The JapaneseAmerican Saga"

100,000

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC 

AFFAIRS/

EDUCATION

$480,781 ¥1,950,000

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen Grants

E. THE ARTS

1. Exchange 

Fellowships for 

Creative Artists - 

Jointly sponsored 

program funded by 

the JUSFC and the 

US National 

Endowment for the 

Arts. The funds 

devoted to this 

program include 

$75,000 received 

from the National 

Endowment for the 

Arts. Grant funds for 

$24,719 19,080,000

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the artists in FY 2000 

are administered in 

Japan for the 

Commission by the 

International House of 

Japan, Inc. Yen funds 

are provided for the 

ensuing program 

year. Yen funds for 

FY 2000 include 

funds for collaborative 

projects carried out in 

Japan by the Creative 

Artist fellows.

Artists sponsored 

under the exchange 

fellowships:

Barbara Allen

Gene Coleman

Maureen Fleming

David Mazzacchelli

William Pope. L

American Performances and 

Exhibitions in Japan

2. The Museum of 

Contemporary Art, 

Los Angeles– for 

support of the project 

"Public Offerings: The 

Avant-Garde and the 

Art School in the 90s"

30,000

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3. New York City Ballet

– for support of the 

project "New York 

City Ballet’s Tour to 

Japan"

40,000

4. Ontological-Hysteric 

Theater – for support 

of the project 

"Ontological-Hysteric 

Theater Japan Tour 

2000"

45,000

Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen Grants

Other

5. CEC International 

Partners, Inc. – for 

support of the 

screening process to 

review the FY 2001 

applications to the US/

Japan Creative Artists 

Fellowship Program

2,540

6. Japanese American 

National Museum – for 

support of the project 

"Celebrating the JapanUS Friendship 

Commission Creative 

Artists Fellowship 

Program"

86,100

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7. San Diego State 

University Foundation – 

for support of the 

project "The 

Establishment of a 

Student Exchange 

Program Between 

SDSU’s Furniture 

Design Program and 

Takumi-Jyuku, a 

Woodworking School in 

Gifu, Japan"

15,060

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $243,419 ¥19,080,000

Commission Program 

Totals

As of September 30, 2000

Japanese Studies in American 

Education

$463,582 ¥56,000,000

The Study of the United States in 

Japanese Education

65,518 0

Policy-Oriented Research 166,380 865,000

Public Affairs/Education 480,781 1,950,000

The Arts 243,419 19,080,000

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION 

PROGRAMS

$1,419,680 ¥77,895,000

CULCON Activities 

(Funded by Transfer from US Department of State)

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Information Access Working 

Group

800

Digital Culture Working Group 11,725

TOTAL FOR CULCON 

ACTIVITIES

$12,525

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2000

As of September 30, 2000

Personnel 340,121

General Services 

Administration for Payroll, 

Accounting and Other 

Services

40,755

Office Space 46,278

Travel 59,483

Communications 8,816

Printing, Supplies, 

Publications

5,619

Equipment 76

Other 50,015

TOTAL FOR 

COMMISSION 

ADMINISTRATIVE 

COSTS

$551,163

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Fundraising Expenses of the Commission in FY 

2000

Travel 10,600

Communications 100

Consultant fee 14,000

TOTAL FOR 

COMMISSION 

FUNDRAISING 

COSTS

$24,700

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2000

Personnel 96,943

Communications 190

Supplies 180

Other 225

TOTAL FOR CULCON 

ADMINISTRATIVE 

COSTS

$97,538

Appropriated Dollar Fund Income and Expense Statement 

Fiscal Year 2000

(10-1-99 through 9-30-00)

INCOME

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Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,746,320

Refunds on Grants 106,519

Received from the US 

National Endowment for the 

Arts

75,000

Received from US 

Department of State

110,063

TOTAL INCOME 3,037,902

EXPENSES

Commission Dollar Grants 1,419,680

Dollar Equivalent of Yen 

Grants

742,759

Commission Administration 551,163

Fundraising Activities 24,700

CULCON Activities 12,525

CULCON Administration 97,538

TOTAL EXPENSE 2,848,365

GAIN OR (LOSS) 189,537

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Appropriated Dollar Fund Balance

Fiscal Year 2000

(10-1-99 through 9-30-00)

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

Fund Balance, 9-30-99 43,739,757

Income or (loss) 189,537

BALANCE, 9-30-00 $43,929,294

Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 2000

(10-1-99 through 9-30-00)

Balance, 9-30-99 $ 7,520

Grants 15,000

Administrative Expenses 10,965

Contributions 24,058

Refunds on Grants 0

BALANCE, 9-30-00 $ 5,613

Bridging Project Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 2000

(10-1-99 through 9-30-00)

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Balance, 9-30-99 $1,2060

Cash/Par 0

Grants 0

Administrative Expenses 1,274

Interest 75

BALANCE, 9-30-00 $7

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