JUSFC 

The Japan-United States Friendship Commission, an independent 

federal agency, supports programs of training, education and 

information management to help prepare Americans to meet the 

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

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

—Japanese Studies in the United States 

—The Study of the United States in Japan 

—Public Affairs/Education 

—The Arts 
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A Message from the Chairman 

I am pleased to present the Japan-US 

Friendship Commission’s biennial 

report for Fiscal Years 2007 and 2008. 

With this report, the Japan-US 

Friendship Commission concludes its 

thirty-second year of operation. 

It is my privilege to have been 

appointed Chairman of the US panel 

for the US-Japan Conference on 

Cultural and Educational Interchange 

(CULCON) and the Japan-US 

Friendship Commission, two organizations with overlapping memberships, 

in January, 2008. Together with four 

new appointments in 2007, and several 

more in 2008, the boards of the two 

organizations are virtually new. Taking 

this opportunity, the Commission 

board carried out a full review of the 

Commission’s programs and priorities 

in September, 2008 and affirmed 

through this process its commitment to 

the support of core institutions of 

Japanese studies and of educational and 

cultural exchange at the highest levels. 

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. 

Moreover, in view of the renewed vigor 

of CULCON, it agreed to highlight 

CULCON’s interest in the role of soft 

power in the bilateral relationship in its 

own programming, putting priority on 

support for projects that explore that 

theme in the bilateral relationship and 

in the relations of the United States and 

Japan throughout East Asia and the 

world. By so doing, the commissioners 

seek to achieve maximum synergy from 

the functioning of the two 

organizations. 

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. The 

Foundation continues to work in close 

cooperation with both the Commission 

and CULCON. Its purpose is to raise 

scholarships to help American undergraduates study in Japan. The 

Foundation has achieved its goals thus 

far and sent over 800 students to study 

in Japan. As the Foundation moves 

into a position of financial 

independence, I would like to 

congratulate it on its great success. 

These are extraordinarily difficult and 

uncertain times. The role of the 

Commission will be critical in helping 

maintain the strength of the vital 

infrastructure of research and training 

that supports the field of Japanese 

studies in the United States. The 

commissioners made clear their 

commitment to this goal in placing the 

Commission’s highest priority on 

support for the core institutions of the 

field. The Commission has weathered 

difficulties in the past brought about by 

disagreements in trade and security 

policies. In the present, we face even 

greater challenges in finding sufficient 

financial support to keep alive the 

tradition of healthy research and 

exchange the Commission has helped 

develop and shape over more than 

thirty years. I am honored to be 

appointed guardian of this task. 
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In closing, I would like to thank the 

commissioners with whom I am 

working closely to effect change in the 

Commission, CULCON and the 

Bridging Foundation. I would also like 

to thank the officers and staff of these 

three organizations for their 

outstanding job of managing their 

affairs on behalf of their boards. 

Thierry Porté 

Chairman 

January, 2009
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The Commission 2006-2007 

The Board as of January 1, 2007 

Chairman:

Dr. Richard J. Samuels* ** 

Ford International Professor of Political 

Science 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Vice-Chairman:

Dr. Michael J. Green* ** 

Japan Chair and Senior Advisor 

Center for Strategic and International 

Studies

Commissioners: 

Mr. Willard G. Clark* ** 

Founder, Clark Center for Japanese 

Art & Culture 

The Honorable Bruce Cole 

Chairman 

National Endowment for the Humanities 

Dr. Richard E. Dyck** 

President 

TCS Japan, KK 

The Honorable Dana Gioia 

Chairman 

National Endowment for the Arts 

Ms. Ellen H. Hammond** 

Curator, East Asian Library 

Yale University 

The Honorable Christopher R. Hill** 

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian 

and Pacific Affairs 

United States Department of State 

Dr. Velina Hasu Houston** 

Professor of Theater 

School of Theater 

University of Southern California 

The Honorable James McDermott 

United States House of Representatives 

The Honorable Lisa Murkowski 

United States Senate

The Honorable Thomas E. Petri* 

United States House of Representatives 

Dr. Susan J. Pharr* ** 

Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese 

Politics 

Harvard University 

Ms. Amelia Porges** 

Sidley Austin LLP 

The Honorable Dina Powell* ** 

Assistant Secretary of State for Educational 

and Cultural Affairs 

United States Department of State

The Honorable John D. Rockefeller, IV* 

United States Senate 

Mr. Frank P. Stanek** 

President 

Stanek Global Advisors 

The Honorable Sally Stroup** 

Assistant Secretary of Education for PostSecondary Education 

United States 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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The Commission 2007-2008 

The Board as of September 30, 2008

Chairman:

Mr. Thierry G. Porté* ** 

President and CEO 

Shinsei Bank, Limited 

Vice-Chairman: 

Dr. Michael J. Green* ** 

Japan Chair and Senior Advisor 

Center for Strategic and International 

Studies 

Commissioners: 

The Honorable Goli Ameri* ** 

Assistant Secretary for Educational 

and Cultural Affairs 

United States Department of State 

Mr. Willard G. Clark* ** 

Founder, Clark Center for Japanese 

Art & Culture 

The Honorable Bruce Cole 

Chairman 

National Endowment for the Humanities 

Dr. Robert A. Feldman**

Managing Director 

Morgan Stanley Japan Securities Co. Ltd. 

The Honorable Dana Gioia 

Chairman 

National Endowment for the Arts 

Ms. Ellen H. Hammond** 

Curator, East Asian Library 

Yale University 

The Honorable Christopher R. Hill** 

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian 

and Pacific Affairs 

United States Department of State 

Dr. Velina Hasu Houston** 

Professor of Theater 

School of Theater 

University of Southern California 

The Honorable James McDermott 

United States House of Representatives 

The Honorable Lisa Murkowski 

United States Senate 

Dr. David M. O’Brien** 

Spicer Professor of Politics 

University of Virginia 

The Honorable Thomas E. Petri* 

United States House of Representatives 

Dr. Susan J. Pharr* ** 

Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese 

Politics 

Harvard University 

Ms. Amelia Porges** 

Sidley Austin LLP 

The Honorable John D. Rockefeller, IV* 

United States Senate 

Assistant Secretary of Education for 

Post-Secondary Education** 

United States 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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The Japan-United States 

Friendship Commission in 

2007-2008

The Japan-United States Friendship 

Commission (“Commission”) is 

pleased to submit this report on its 

thirty-first and thirty-second years of 

operations for the period October 1, 

2006 to September 30, 2008, which 

corresponds to the federal Fiscal 

Years 2007 and 2008. 

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 Commission to seek the highest return on 

its investments in government 

obligations in either or both of the 

two countries. 

The Commission is composed of a 

board of eighteen commissioners and 

a permanent staff of four officers. 

The Board is divided equally between 

nine senior representatives of the 

United States government from the 

legislative and executive branches, 

and nine private citizens, including 

the chairman. Of these eighteen, 
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twelve members, including the private 

citizens and three government 

officials, serve ex officio on the 

Commission by virtue of their service 

on CULCON, a binational advisory 

panel to the two governments in 

educational and cultural affairs. The 

Board's responsibility is to manage 

investment of the Trust Fund and use 

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

and Japan for programs of research, 

training, education and exchange. 

The history of the past sixty years 

demonstrates that the United States 

and Japan have much in common in 

terms of broad national values. In 

the short term, however, each nation 

has its own objectives and concerns, 

and identification with each other’s 

objectives and concerns has become 

more difficult in the new global 

environment. Moreover, the record 

of the past sixty years shows that 

differences in thought patterns, value 

systems, social and economic 

behavior, decision-making processes 

and means of communication can 

lead to mutual misunderstanding and 

friction. These give rise to a broad 

array of issues that the Commission is 

asked 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, 

above all, for advanced training for 

American graduate students and 

professionals, occupies a central 

position in the Commission’s grantmaking activities. There is a severe 

imbalance in the amount of attention 

that the media in each country devote 

to the other. The Commission 

expends 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-plus 

years ago when the Commission was 

established, regional and global 

conditions play increasingly pivotal 

roles in shaping the bilateral 

relationship, leading to the 

Commission’s decision that it must 

take such conditions into account in 

its grant-making activities, especially 

in support of research. 
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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. 

Program Highlights

1. Japanese Studies in the 

United States 

The Commission pursues as its 

fundamental mandate the promotion 

of expertise on Japan throughout the 

American public. Its primary means 

of accomplishing this goal is through 

maintaining the vitality of Japanese 

studies in institutions of American 

higher education and associated 

professional organizations and institutions. Thus, as has been the case in 

previous years, support for Japanese 

studies in the United States has 

remained the largest program of 

Commission support during FYs 

2007 and 2008. 

During this period, the most 

important step the Commission took 

in support of Japanese studies in the 

United States was to expand the 

practice of making three-year 

commitments to grantee institutions 

that support basic activities in the 

field. In the previous period, the 

Commission had invited and 

approved proposals for three-year 

grants from the Interuniversity 

Center for Japanese Language Studies 

and the Northeast Asian Council of 

the Association for Asian Studies. In 

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

Associations of Teachers of Japanese 

and the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library 

Resources. The Commission has full 

confidence in the quality of programs 

offered by these institutions; its 

purpose in inviting three-year grant 

proposals has been both to reduce 

administrative burdens, and to allow 

these institutions to leverage other 

sources of support with this new 

statement of confidence from the 

Commission. In addition to these 

two institutions, the Commission 

assessed the program it had 

established with the National 

Endowment for the Humanities to 

support fellowships for advanced 

research in the social sciences on 

Japan. The first three-year program 

proved extremely successful, and the 

Commission and the NEH agreed to 

support a full program of fellowships 

for a second three-year period. 
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While the Commission has given 

priority to support of the core 

institutions in the field of Japanese 

studies in American higher education, 

it has also continued to support 

projects of collaborative research on 

important and timely subjects. As an 

example of such projects in this 

period, the Commission supported 

“The Tokyo Trial: Legacy and 

Reassessment at Sixty” at The George 

Washington University. On the eve 

of the sixtieth anniversary of the 

conclusion of the International 

Military Tribunal for the Far East (the 

“Tokyo Trial”), the project analyzed 

the legacy of the Trial’s results from 

multiple Asian perspectives and 

disseminated these results widely to 

the American policy community and 

general public. 

The close relationship between the 

boards of CULCON and the 

Commission continues to lead to a 

high degree of coordination between 

the Commission’s resources and 

CULCON priorities, especially in 

Japanese studies. In the two fiscal 

years under report, the most 

significant expressions of this close 

coordination were the Commission's 

continued support of administration 

of the Bridging Project Clearinghouse 

inside the Association of Teachers of 

Japanese, continued support of the 

innovative CULCON-initiated web 

site Cross Currents under management 

of the University of Hawai’i (under 

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

support for the CULCON-initiated 

US-Japan Bridging Foundation, 

which serves to raise funds to help 

send more US undergraduates to 

study in Japan, a long-standing 

CULCON priority. By the end of 

this reporting period, the Foundation 

had arrived close to completing its 

second goal of $2.5M to help send a 

second cohort of 500 American 

undergraduates to Japan for a 

semester or 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. 

Senior figures in the field in Japan 

have continued to express their 

concern to the Commission that their 

highest priority lies in the support of 

Japanese graduate students in the 

field, and the nurturing of a new 

generation to take the place of the 

current generation of specialists at 
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Japanese universities as they retire. 

The Commission studied the issue in 

consultation with experts in both 

countries and then worked with the 

Graduate School for American 

Studies at Doshisha University in 

Kyoto to devise a national competition for Japanese graduate 

students of American studies for 

funds to support field research in the 

United States. Launched as a pilot 

project in FY 2002, the program has 

thrived and has helped to produce a 

constant stream of talent moving into 

programs of advanced research and 

training at the most competitive 

programs in the field in Japan. The 

Commission continued this effort 

with grants to Doshisha University 

for this program in both FYs 2007 

and 2008. It also provided support 

for graduate students through its 

grants to the academic associations 

noted above. 

3. Public Affairs/Education

The Commission’s support for 

activities in public affairs and 

education remains lively. Through it, 

the Commission endeavors to meet 

the demand for information on Japan 

throughout the United States. It 

emphasizes projects that provide 

education and information both to 

selected groups of political and 

professional leaders, and to the 

American public at large. Projects in 

Public Affairs/Education fall under 

two general headings: Counterpart 

Exchanges and Media. 

In the area of counterpart exchanges, 

the Commission continued to give 

highest priority to legislative 

exchange programs between the 

United States and Japan. These 

included the US-Japan Economic 

Agenda Legislative Exchange 

Program (LEP) at The George 

Washington University for meetings 

between members of the Japanese 

Diet and US Congress, and the 

United States Association of Former 

Members of Congress for the 

Congressional Study Group on Japan. 

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 and 

highly productive expansion is, to the 

Commission’s knowledge, a unique 

channel for communication among 

members of the three legislative 

bodies in an informal but increasingly 

complex trilateral relationship. 

In the period under review, the 

Commission continued to support 

the services of the International 

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

grant for support of the International 

House’s facilitative and library 

services. In consultation with the 

new leadership of the International 

House, the Commission transformed 

its support from a grant to a contract 

basis in FY 2006, at the completion 

of the International House’s project 
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to renovate its physical facilities and 

modernize its financial management. 

The period under review continued 

to see lively Commission support for 

the production of documentary films 

on subjects ranging from the arts to 

Japan’s security architecture. Perhaps 

the most widely distributed of these 

films was Riverwebs, a documentary 

film exploring collaborative research 

on stream/forest ecology by Japanese 

and American scientists that received 

high acclaim and wide distribution 

both in the media and in educational 

outlets in both countries. 

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 limited access to funds for 

mounting their productions in Japan, 

especially at venues outside Tokyo. 

In FYs 2007 and 2008 the Commission continued to work closely 

with the National Endowment for 

the Arts and the Agency for Cultural 

Affairs in Japan to sponsor the USJapan Creative Artists Exchange 

Fellowship Program through the 

International House of Japan. Under 

this program, five Fellows annually 

spend a residency of five months in 

Japan, immersed in Japanese culture 

and its manifestations in their fields 

and in training in the arts. In 

addition, the Commission continued 

to provide support to the 

International House to hire experts to 

facilitate the program on site. 

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 US 

Department of State, CULCON 

became a program of the United 

States Information Agency in 1978. 

In 1999, it returned to the US 

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 
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unique membership to make inroads 

where organizations with homogeneous membership have failed. 

In the period under consideration, 

CULCON undertook a thorough 

review of its history and 

accomplishments, beginning with the 

drafting of a new mission statement 

to provide direction for CULCON 

efforts in regional and global 

environments far removed from 

those of its beginnings in the 1960s. 

During 2007 its members undertook 

a study of the state of educational and 

cultural relations between the two 

countries, which served as the focus 

for the agenda of CULCON’s 

Twenty-Third Plenary Session, held 

in Tokyo in June, 2008. At that 

session, under the direction of newly 

appointed chairmen on both panels, 

the members approved a final version 

of the CULCON report on the state 

of bilateral educational and cultural 

relations and presented their findings 

to Prime Minister Fukuda. They also 

agreed to pursue as a future theme 

the role of soft power in the USJapan relationship, beginning with a 

symposium on the subject in 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 2007 

October 1, 2006 - September 30, 2007

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” 

56,000 

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 

4. Society for American Archivists – for support of 

“Access to Archives: The Japanese and 

American Practices” 

25,000 

5. Society for Japanese Studies – for support in 

placing the Journal of Japanese Studies in 150 

college, university and public libraries across 

the United States 

7,500 
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Grants Awarded US Dollar 

Grants 

Japanese Yen 

Grants 

Professional Studies 

 6. Columbia University, The Donald Keene Center of 

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

Translation of Japanese Literature” in FY 

2007 

22,057 

Research 

 7. American University – for support of 

“Competitive Regionalism: Strategic 

Dynamics of FTA Negotiation in East Asia 

and Beyond” 

5,999 

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

of “NEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese 

Studies” in FY 2007

114,943 

 9. The George Washington University – for support 

of “The Tokyo Trial: Legacy and 

Reassessment at Sixty” 

74,228 

 10. National Endowment for the Humanities – for 

support of “Advanced Social Science Research 

Fellowship Program on Japan” 

124,000 

11. Pacific Forum CSIS – for support of “USJapan-ROK Relations for the 21st Century” 13,000 

Student Exchange 

12. Association of Teachers of Japanese – for support 

of “The Bridging Project Clearinghouse to 

Encourage Study Abroad in Japan by 

American Undergraduate Students” 

52,737 

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN 

THE UNITED STATES $583,878 ¥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: 

Women in Foreign Policy and Foreign 

Affairs” 

40,000 

 2. American Studies Association – for support of 

Year Three of “Bridging the World(s)” 

25,000 

 3. Organization of American Historians – for support 

of “JAAS/OAH Historians’ Collaborative 

Project” 

30,000 

 4. Nanzan University – for support of “Nagoya 

American Studies Summer Seminar, 2007” 

20,000 

Other 

 5. Doshisha University, Graduate School of American 

Studies – for support of “American Studies 

Research Travel Grants for MA Students at 

Japanese Universities” 

 1,600,000 

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF 

THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN $115,000 ¥1,600,000 
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Public Affairs/Education FY 2007

16 

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 2007” 

115,000 

 2. Japan Society – for support of “The US-Japan 

Innovators Project” 

15,000 

Media and Dissemination 

 3. Freshwaters Illustrated – for support of the film 

Riverwebs 

25,300 

 4. National Bureau of Asian Research – for support 

of “Japan-US Discussion Forum” 

25,000 

 5. University of Hawai’i – for support of 

“Maintenance, Support, and Promotion of 

Cross Currents Website, 2007”

15,732 

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION $196,032 ¥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 2007 were administered 

in Japan for the Commission by the International 

House of Japan, Inc. 

Artists sponsored under the exchange fellowships: 

Brenda Aoki and Mark Izu (joint fellowship) 

Anthony D’Souza 

Ellen Fullman 

Joseph Maida 

Leyna Papach & Michel Kouakou (joint fellowship) 

25,520 21,030,000 

 American Performances/Exhibitions in 

Japan

 

 2. Tokyo International Arts Festival – for support of 

“American Contemporary Plays and 

Playwrights Project” 

 1,755,000 

 3. GOH Productions – for support of Page Out of 

Order Manipur 

5,750 

 4. International House of Japan – for support of 

“IHJ Commemorative Installation Project” 

12,000 

 5. Liz Lerman Dance Exchange – for support of 

Radical Prayer

20,000 

 6. Ma-Yi Theater – for support of The Wind-Up 

Bird Chronicle

12,500 

 7. Ping Chong & Company – for support of 

“Cathay: Three Tales of China – Japan Tour” 

10,000 

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $85,770 ¥22,785,000 
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Commission Program Totals 

 Japanese Studies in the United States $583,878 ¥49,000,000

 The Study of the United States in Japan 115,000 1,600,000 

 Public Affairs/Education 196,032 0 

 The Arts 85,770 22,785,000 

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS $980,680 ¥73,385,000 

CULCON Activities 

Cross Currents/Digital Culture Working Group $6,600 

 Mission Statement Working Group 17,450 

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES $24,050 
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Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2007 

 Personnel $429,839 

 General Services Administration for Payroll, 

 Accounting and Other Services 68,440 

 Office Space 82,440 

 Travel 58,625 

 Communications 5,081 

 Printing, Supplies, Publications 4,603 

 Other 64,915 

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $713,943

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2007 

 Personnel $132,610 

 Communications, Printing 300 

 Supplies 640 

 Website Design and Maintenance 2,400 

TOTAL FOR CULCON 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $135,950
_________________________________________________ 

Funds and Expenses FY 2007

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Appropriated Fund Income and Expense Statement 

Fiscal Year 2007 (10-1-06 through 9-30-07) 

INCOME 

 Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,157,000 

 Refunds on Grants 55,422 

 Received from the US National Endowment for 

the Arts 

 

100,000 

 Received from the US Department of State for 

CULCON support 160,000 

TOTAL INCOME $2,472,422 

EXPENSES 

 Commission Dollar Grants $980,680 

 Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants 616,680 

 Commission Administration 713,943 

 CULCON Activities 24,050 

 CULCON Administration 135,950 

TOTAL EXPENSES $2,471,303 

 GAIN OR (LOSS) $1,119 
_________________________________________________ FY 2007 Funds and Expenses

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Appropriated Fund Balance 

Fiscal Year 2007 (10-1-06 through 9-30-07) 

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

 Fund Balance, 9-30-06 39,520,101 

 Income or (loss) $1,119 

BALANCE, 9-30-07 $39,521,220 

Gift Fund (non-appropriated) 

Fiscal Year 2007 (10-1-06 through 9-30-07) 

 Balance, 9-30-06 $13,028 

 Grants 0 

 Administrative Expenses 2,035 

 Contributions 0 

BALANCE, 9-30-07 $10,993 
_________________________________________________ 

Japanese Studies in the United States FY 2008

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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 2008 

October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2008

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” 

49,000 

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 

Professional Studies 

 4. Columbia University, The Donald Keene Center of 

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

Translation of Japanese Literature” in FY 

2008 

22,057 
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Research 

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

of “NEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese 

Studies” in FY 2008

110,000 

 6. National Endowment for the Humanities – for 

support of “Advanced Social Science Research 

Fellowship Program on Japan” 

120,800 

7. Pacific Forum CSIS – for support of “USJapan-ROK Relations for the 21st Century” 13,000 

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” 

50,467 

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN 

THE UNITED STATES $453,738 ¥49,000,000 
_________________________________________________ 

Study of the United States in Japan FY 2008

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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. Organization of American Historians – for support 

of “JAAS/OAH Historians’ Collaborative 

Project” 

35,660 

Other 

2. Doshisha University, Graduate School of American 

Studies – for support of “American Studies 

Research Travel Grants for MA Students at 

Japanese Universities” 

 1,600,000 

3. Doshisha University, International Institute of 

American Studies – for support of “US 

Presidential Election 2008 in a Global 

Perspective” 

 2,000,000 

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF 

THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN $35,660 ¥3,600,000 
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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” 

118,043 

2. Japan Society – for support of “The US-Japan 

Innovators Project” 

10,000 

3. United States Association of Former Members of 

Congress – for support of “The Congressional 

Study Group on Japan” 

15,000 

Media and Dissemination 

4. Asian Cine Vision – for support of the film 

Wings of Defeat

33,350 

5. Educational Broadcasting Corporation – for 

support of the film Japan’s About Face

50,000 

6. Film Arts Foundation – for support of the film 

KUSAMA: Princess of Polka Dots

15,000 

7. Freshwaters Illustrated – for support of 

“Riverwebs in Japan: Versioning an educational 

science documentary film for Japanese 

television and schools” 

21,200 

8. Vista 360◦ – for support of the Jackson Hole 

Fire Festival: Phase I of the Mt. 

Fuji/Yellowstone Partnership Project 

15,000 

9. University of Hawai’i – for support of 

“Maintenance, Support, and Promotion of 

Cross Currents website, 2008”

15,732 

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION $293,325 ¥0 
_________________________________________________ 

The Arts FY 2008

26 

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 2008 were administered 

in Japan for the Commission by the International 

House of Japan, Inc. 

Artists sponsored under the exchange fellowships: 

Elizabeth Brown 

Dmitri Carter 

Elaine Chow 

Brian Current 

Suji Kim 

29,193 21,030,000 

 American Performances/Exhibitions in 

Japan

 

2. GOH Productions – for support of the 

collaborative production POOOM

17,250 

3. Portland Taiko – for support of the 

collaborative production Dances Across Borders

10,000 

4. Tandem Otter Productions – for support of 

“Japan Tour of Basil Twist’s original work 

Dogugaeshi”

20,000 

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $76,443 ¥21,030,000 
_________________________________________________ FY 2008 Commission and CULCON Totals

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Commission Program Totals 

 Japanese Studies in the United States $453,738 ¥49,000,000 

 The Study of the United States in Japan 35,660 3,600,000 

 Public Affairs/Education 293,325 0 

 The Arts 76,443 21,030,000 

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS $859,166 ¥73,630,000 

CULCON Activities 

Cross Currents/Digital Culture Working Group $15,732 

 Mission Statement Working Group 1,918 

 CULCON XXIII Plenary Session 88,898 

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES $106,548 
_________________________________________________ 

Funds and Expenses FY 2008

28 

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2008 

 Personnel $439,000 

 General Services Administration for Payroll, 

 Accounting and Other Services 

71,000 

 Office Space 82,352 

 Travel 35,065 

 Communications 5,700 

 Printing, Supplies, Publications 3,900 

 Other 56,143 

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $693,160

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2008 

 Personnel $141,050 

 Communications, Printing 500 

 Supplies 200 

 Website Design and Maintenance 600 

TOTAL FOR CULCON 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS $142,350
_________________________________________________ FY 2008 Funds and Expenses

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Appropriated Fund Income and Expense Statement 

Fiscal Year 2008 (10-1-07 through 9-30-08) 

INCOME 

 Net Interest (Earned Basis) $2,092,963 

 Refunds on Grants 57,626 

 Received from the US National Endowment for 

the Arts 

 

100,000 

 Received from the US Department of State for 

CULCON support 248,898 

TOTAL INCOME $2,499,487 

EXPENSES 

 Commission Dollar Grants $859,166 

 Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants 710,217 

 Commission Administration 693,160 

 CULCON Activities 106,548 

 CULCON Administration 142,350 

TOTAL EXPENSES $2,511,441 

 GAIN OR (LOSS) ($11,954) 
_________________________________________________ 

FY 2008 Funds and Expenses

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Appropriated Fund Balance 

Fiscal Year 2008 (10-1-07 through 9-30-08) 

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

 Fund Balance, 9-30-07 39,521,220 

 Income or (loss) ($11,954) 

BALANCE, 9-30-08 $39,509,266 

Gift Fund (non-appropriated) 

Fiscal Year 2008 (10-1-07 through 9-30-08) 

 Balance, 9-30-07 $10,993 

 Grants 0 

 Administrative Expenses 432 

 Contributions 0 

BALANCE, 9-30-08 $10,561