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Japan-United States Friendship Commission 1995-1996 Biennial Report

The Japan-United States Friendship Commission, an independent federal agency dedicated to 

promoting mutual understanding and cooperation between the United States and Japan, 

administers grant programs 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 1995 and 1996.

This year marks the end of my first year as Chairman of the Japan-US Friendship Commission. 

Early in my term I had the opportunity to meet many of the important players in the Commission’s 

fortunes, both inside and outside the government, and I was impressed by the deep level of support 

for its activities that I have found. Subsequently, the commissioners and I reviewed the entire range 

of Commission priorities, programs and activities at both the Spring and Fall, 1996 meetings. We 

have published our conclusions in the November, 1996 edition of the Commission’s Program 

Guidelines. Over the course of this process I have come to appreciate the spirit of collegiality that 

marks the commissioners’ interactions. I value that spirit above all.

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The historically low return on investments in Japan has greatly affected the operations of all 

agencies and organizations that work in US-Japan exchange. The Commission is no exception. It 

faces an era of significantly diminished resources, a situation that inevitably affects grant-making 

abilities and program priorities.

One option has been to look increasingly to cost-sharing with other agencies on large-scale projects. 

Another response by the Commission has been to help organize informal consultations among the 

major funding agencies of US-Japan exchange, to promote better coordination and co-operation. 

Nonetheless, the situation remains grave.

In light of this, while maintaining a presence in all its traditional areas of activity, the Commission 

has chosen to concentrate its efforts in the areas of policy-oriented research and its effective 

dissemination, of greater attention to Japan in the US media, especially broadcasting, and to a new 

category called “infrastructure building.” Potential applicants are urged to consult with the 

Commission staff for information on priorities in Commission support for policy-oriented research 

and on its other programs.

In the vital area of Japanese studies, the Commission will continue to look for projects of national 

scope that help to open new opportunities for research and exchange, especially for areas such as 

undergraduate study for American students in Japan. In particular, the Commission will continue 

to look favorably on those organizations that serve to “retail” Commission funds by crafting grants 

for individual research projects in Japanese studies through peer review committees.

An area of great interest to me is the Commission’s leadership of CULCON, a USIA-sponsored 

bilateral forum to review educational and cultural relations between the United States and Japan. 

Under a CULCON initiative, the two countries have planned ways of increasing the number of 

American undergraduates studying in Japan. Under this plan, Japanese national universities have 

steadily been building new junior year-abroad programs in English for American students from a 

variety of backgrounds. For our part, we have begun the process of establishing a national 

clearinghouse of information, orientation and facilitative services to address the several obstacles 

that continue to impede greater flows to Japan, and to recruit students for these new programs. 

More recently, CULCON has established an initiative to increase access to information in the public 

domain in Japan through a variety of means, particularly through increased use of the Internet. I 

look forward to reporting more to you on these efforts in the future.

With a permanent staff of only four, the Commission remains one of the smallest and most costeffective independent agencies in the federal bureaucracy. Its purpose is to prepare Americans to 

deal effectively with the challenges we face in the Asia Pacific region in the 21st century. Through 

this work, it offers the possibility of strengthening true friendship between the United States and 

Japan, based on tested and accurate knowledge of each other, devoid of stereotypes, as the most 

important goal toward which we should aim. I am pleased to have the opportunity to provide 

leadership in its quest for that goal.

Richard J. Wood 
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Chairman 

January, 1997

The Japan-United States Friendship Commission, 1995-1996

Chairman:

Vice-Chairman:

Mr. Glen S. Fukushima* ** 

Vice President, International Affairs 

AT&T Japan, Ltd., Tokyo

Members:

Hon. Jane Alexander 

Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts

Mr. Burnill F. Clark** 

President, KCTS TV, Seattle

Hon. Joseph D. Duffey* ** 

Director, United States Information Agency

Dr. Carol Gluck* ** 

Professor of History 

Columbia University

Mr. David I. Hitchcock* ** 

Senior Associate 

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Mr. Jeffrey M. Lepon** 

Partner, Lepon, McCarthy, White & Holzworth

Hon. David Longanecker** 

Assistant Secretary of Education for Post-Secondary Education

Hon. Winston P. Lord** 

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Dr. Richard J. Wood* ** 

Dean 

Yale Divinity School
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Mr. Thomas E. McLain** 

Partner, Perkins Coie

Hon. Frank H. Murkowski 

United States Senate

Hon. Thomas Petri* 

United States House of Representatives

Hon. John D. Rockefeller IV* 

United States Senate

Mr. George H. Takei** 

Actor/Writer 

Los Angeles, CA

Mr. Ira Wolf** 

Director, Japan Relations and Vice President 

Eastman Kodak Asia-Pacific Ltd.

Hon. Robert Wise 

United States House of Representatives

Staff:

Executive Director 

Dr. Eric J. Gangloff

Assistant Executive Director 

Ms. Margaret P. Mihori

CULCON Program Officer 

Ms. Pamela L. Fields

Secretary 

Ms. Roberta S. Stewart

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Washington, DC 20005 

Telephone: (202) 275-7712 

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*Members of the Executive Committee

**Members of CULCON

The Japan-United States Friendship Commission in 1995-96

In compliance with the provisions of PL 94-118, as amended, the Japan-United States Friendship 

Commission is pleased to submit to the President and to the Congress this report on its nineteenth 

and twentieth years of operations covering the period from October 1, 1994 to September 30, 1996, 

which corresponds to the Federal Fiscal Years 1995 and 1996.

Background and Overview

The Japan-United States Friendship Commission is an independent federal agency, dedicated to 

promoting mutual understanding and cooperation between the United States and Japan. Although 

governmental, the Commission operates much like a private foundation.

In passing the Japan-United States Friendship Act (PL 94-118) in 1975, the 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.

To carry out these efforts, the Congress established the Commission, the only federal agency whose 

sole 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 $36 

million 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 
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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 thereof, and up to five per cent 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 such gifts as 

it may receive and to spend the principal and interest earnings thereof without reference to the 

appropriations process.

It does not require special insight to comprehend that the mission given to the Commission 

remains valid. 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 with competition, friendship 

with rivalry, it stands alone.

The relationship stands, however, on a narrow and 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, each nation has its own objectives and concerns. Moreover, 

the record of that relationship shows that the centuries-old 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, and particularly the United States, 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. New thinking about the relationship and new ways of managing it – 

based on greater understanding of the character and causes of these problems and devised through 

mutual deliberation – are called for.

In the past several years the Commission has placed greater emphasis on research that will focus on 

the problems in the contemporary relationship and suggest new and more effective ways of 

managing them. The Commission today has a renewed sense of purpose and a more focused 

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

binational relationship. In accordance with its mandate, it continues to address the problems and 

misperceptions that exist between Japan and the United States by funding projects that will lead to 

greater mutual understanding and cooperation. It asks, however, that the projects it supports take 

cognizance of the contemporary relationship and each in its own way contribute back to the public 

good that PL 94-118 envisioned and sought to embody in the Commission.

The Commission is under no illusion that its efforts alone will eliminate all problems and 

misperceptions. It does believe that as a principal source of American funds for educational and 

cultural exchanges, research and public affairs activities with Japan, its programs have a catalytic 

effect on activities of many kinds that can lead to mutual understanding and cooperation.

Program Highlights 

1. Japanese Studies in the United States
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In Japanese studies the Commission provided its largest single grants in FYs 1995 and 1996 to the 

Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama. Jointly sponsored with the 

Department of Education, the Japan Foundation and seventeen North American universities, this 

institution provides advanced language study to forty-eight carefully selected American students 

from institutions across the United States on a full-time, intensive basis. While in the early years 

most students planned academic careers in the Japan field, a recent trend is bringing to the Center 

more young lawyers, economists, engineers, scientists and business managers, who have realized 

the importance of the Japanese language to their professional interests.

In the field of library support, the Commission has continued and upgraded its support for the 

National Coordinating Committee for Japanese Library Resources, a permanent body that serves to 

plan for shared collection development and user access to Japanese-language library materials on a 

national scale, and to represent in a comprehensive manner the needs of the library community to 

various funding sources. Since 1992, the Committee has organized an annual program with 

Commission funds to purchase at least one copy of multivolume sets important to research that 

otherwise would not be found in US collections because of cost. It has begun the difficult task of 

planning to convert to machine-readable format the bibliographic records of North American 

library holdings in the Japanese language – an indispensable tool for planning collection 

development and user access on a national scale. It currently is directed by a professional director, 

hired with Commission support to transform its operations from a volunteer basis to a permanent, 

professional organization.

In addition to these two highly-focused programs of support, the Commission continued to pursue 

vigorously its two priorities during this period in Japanese studies: support of basic research to 

maintain the vitality of the field; and support for developing Japan programs in professional 

graduate schools of engineering, business, journalism and other fields. The Commission made 

major grants in FYs 1995 and 1996 to the Social Science Research Council, following a long 

tradition of such grants from its earliest operations, for support of postdoctoral research in and on 

Japan by established American scholars selected through a national competition. In its most recent 

years, the Commission’s support to the Council has been aimed at stimulating and supporting 

research on the modern Japanese political economy. Scholarship on Japan was also furthered 

through the efforts of the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, which was 

awarded grants in FYs 1995 and 1996 to support research, travel, regional seminars and a 

distinguished lecturer series, especially with a view to the needs of the “isolated” Japan scholar 

outside the major centers of Japanese studies.

In an effort to remedy critical shortages of Japan specialists in such key areas as economics, 

journalism and engineering, the Commission worked with major universities to offer fellowships to 

outstanding graduate students in these fields. In FY 1996, for example, the Commission provided 

support to the American Society for Engineering Education program for recently-graduated 

engineering undergraduates to spend nine-month internships in Japan. In a different vein, the 

Commission provided support in FY 1996 to NAFEO to help establish programs of Japanese studies 
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at member HBCU institutions. Support for these programs will be found in this report under the 

heading “Professional Studies” and “Other” in Japanese studies and represents a significant 

commitment on the Commission’s part to drawing Japanese studies into the mainstream of 

American undergraduate, graduate and professional education.

2. The Study of the United States in Japan

In FYs 1995 and 1996 the Commission provided support to Doshisha University for its library, 

research and American studies graduate programs. Both grants included funds for a unique effort 

to bring American graduate students of American studies to Doshisha for further training and 

development.

In a related effort, the Commission also provided funds in FY 1995 to the Center for American 

Studies at The University of Tokyo for the development of its American studies library collection 

and staff.

The Commission continued support to bring Japanese and American scholars into direct contact 

through seminars and conferences, to help them keep abreast of the most recent trends in their 

fields. Specifically, it continued a program of support in FY 1995 for a second series of three-year 

collaborative research projects on the general theme of “Images and Symbols of America” between 

the American Studies Association of the United States and the Japanese Association of American 

Studies. In FY 1996, a third series of three-year collaborative research projects between these two 

entities entitled “Japan-US Dialogues Across the Pacific” was begun to enhance curriculum, 

program and faculty development of the study of the United States in Japan. The two latter series 

were outgrowths of a previous project to exchange members of the two associations at each other’s 

annual meeting. The Commission also provided funds in FY 1995 to The University of the Ryukyus 

to assist in publishing the proceedings of a three-year project entitled “America and Postwar 

Okinawa: Fifty Years of Cross-Cultural Contact.” This publication was cited by the National Diet 

Library as a notable publication of 1995.

The Commission continues to look for guidance and leadership in the study of the United States in 

Japanese education from Japanese colleagues and friends. In this regard in FY 1996 the 

Commission funded a comprehensive survey of the field, organized by the International House of 

Japan, to assess strengths and areas requiring further attention. The Commission continues to seek 

opportunities to help create channels of communication between the American studies 

communities in Japan and the United States, and between American studies specialists in Japan 

and their Japanese counterparts in other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

3. Policy-Oriented Research

Since 1990, the Commission has made a concerted effort to take a more active stance vis-à-vis the 

US-Japan relationship and the serious challenges facing both countries in its management through 

placing emphasis on support of policy-oriented research projects. In sponsoring policy research 
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projects the Commission intends that the results of these research efforts be pertinent to those 

concerned with Japan in the Congress, various think tanks, academia and the media. In this 

category, the Commission places high priority on projects that deal with Japan-US economic, 

political and security policies. More recently, it has also placed emphasis on issues of social 

transition in Japan that have implications for the bilateral relationship.

In FYs 1995 and 1996 the heart of the Commission’s support for policy-oriented research lay in its 

RFP, or “Request for Proposals,” program. Under this program, the Commission designated certain 

topics for priority in research and advertised its support for this research widely through direct 

mail, newsletter, the Internet and other means. The Commission set aside sufficient funds to 

support five such projects per subject over a two-year period. It had begun the program in FY 1994 

with the subject of Japanese investment in Asia, when it selected two projects for support, and 

continued the program in FY 1995 with three more projects on Japanese investment in Asia, 

namely, Harvard University, The Program on US-Japan Relations, for the project “Japanese 

Corporate Activities in Asia: Effects on Regional Integration and US-Japan Relations,” University 

of California, San Diego, “Competing or Complementary Production Networks?”, and University of 

Washington, “Facing Japanese Competition in Asia: A Political-Economic Analysis.” Culminating 

this effort, in FY 1996 the Commission supported a conference at the Woodrow Wilson Center in 

Washington, DC to bring the results of these and several related projects to the attention of the 

Washington policy community.

Similarly, in FY 1995 the Commission designated a second topic for support – the deregulation and 

reregulation of the domestic Japanese economy and its implications for US-Japan relations. Under 

this second RFP, the Commission supported five more research projects in 1995 and 1996, namely, 

Georgia Institute of Technology, “Deregulating Japan’s Health Care and Pension Systems,” the 

University of Hawaii and Purdue University, “The Political Economy of Deregulation in Japan,” the 

University of California, San Diego, “Deregulation and the Japanese Firm,” the University of 

California, Santa Cruz, “The Context and Rationale for Deregulation in Japan: Real and Financial 

Implications,” and the University of Washington, “Regulating Electronics.” Once again, the 

Commission plans to bring the results of these projects to the attention of the Washington policy 

community through a grant in FY 1996 to the Japan Information Access Project, which will 

organize a conference in March, 1997 entitled “The Political Economy of Deregulation in Japan: 

Sectors, Interest Groups and the Prospects for Meaningful Market Liberalization.”

A full record of the Commission’s support for policy-oriented research projects for both FY 1995 

and FY 1996 follows in this report.

4. Public Affairs/Education

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

throughout the United States. The Commission emphasizes projects that disseminate information 

on major issues and potential areas of cooperation between the two countries. These projects fall 

under three major sub-headings: Outreach, Media and Counterpart Exchanges.
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As has been the case for several years, the core of the Commission’s outreach program funding was 

provided to the network of Japan-America societies throughout the country, which the Commission 

has supported since 1979. This funding has allowed societies in thirty-four American cities to hire 

professional staff and move from providing primarily social and cultural programming to offering 

substantive public affairs programs on Japan and on US-Japan issues, as well as providing a link 

between Japan and geographical regions and minority communities in the United States that 

historically have had little association with it. Fiscal Years 1995 and 1996 saw a further maturation 

of this program with a total of eight newly-forming societies receiving administrative support.

In addition to providing administrative support in both fiscal years, the Commission also provided 

program support Japan-America societies. Specifically, in FY 1996, the Commission supported the 

Japan-America Society of the State of Washington’s “US-Japan Links,” a project to link JapanAmerica societies electronically across the United States. The Commission also provided support to 

the Japan Society of Boston, Inc. in FY 1995 for its project “Critical Issues in Japan and the US: 

Understanding the Demands of a New Society.” This project allowed American and Japanese 

experts at four symposia in Boston dealing with subject areas deemed critical to both nations to 

visit other, smaller societies in New England. In the foreseeable future the Commission will remain 

committed to assisting societies as a major means of educating the American public on issues 

facing the US-Japan relationship and of engaging communities that heretofore have not had 

significant contact with Japan.

The Commission lacks the staff and funding to make a major contribution to the complex and 

costly field of media. Nevertheless, in FYs 1995 and 1996 it continued to seek opportunities to 

provide support for media projects that exhibit high quality, good financial prospects and 

opportunity for broad visibility and impact. Of particular note in FY 1995 was a project with Public 

Radio International for the weekly business news program “Marketplace: Japan Desk,” and a 

project with the Film News Now Foundation for its documentary film “Doubles: Japan and 

America’s Intercultural Children.” During this period, the Commission also provided partial 

support for documentaries on the lives of Isamu Noguchi, Akira Kurosawa, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

In the future, the Commission will give priority to projects in broadcast media that promote 

coverage, commentary and sustained analysis of Japan on major news and public affairs programs, 

both on PBS stations and commercial networks. It will continue to consider requests for the 

research and development of the treatment of scripts for documentaries and for support for their 

direct production costs on a case-by-case basis.

In the area of counterpart exchanges, the Commission continued its support for three on-going 

legislative exchange programs between the United States and Japan. These included: the US-Japan 

Economic Agenda at George Washington University for its FY 1995 and FY 1996 legislative 

exchange programs between Diet members and the members of the US Congress; the US 

Association of Former Members of Congress for its Congressional Study Group on Japan; and the 

Congressional Economic Leadership Institute’s study tour of Japan by senior congressional staff 

members. In both fiscal years grants were again made to the International House of Japan to 
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provide support services to American scholars and researchers as needed. Also of interest in this 

category was a grant in FY 1995 to the National Security Archive to help support “A Public Forum 

in Japan on Public Access to Official Japanese Records,” a symposium in Tokyo held jointly with 

the Yomiuri Newspaper on the purposes and operations of the Freedom of Information Act in the 

United States.

5. The Arts

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

collaborative projects in contemporary modes. It recognizes that it must take an increasingly 

selective approach to funding in this field, given pressure in other program areas. However, it 

supports the arts 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 and other current issues.

In FYs 1995 and 1996 the Commission continued to work closely with the National Endowment for 

the Arts (NEA) and the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs in sponsoring the US-Japan Creative 

Artists Exchange Fellowship Program. The national competition awards up to five fellowships 

annually to American artists and draws hundreds of applications from established creative artists 

in a wide range of disciplines. The recipients spend six months in Japan, studying Japanese culture 

and its manifestations in their particular fields. 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 1996 the Commission took over the direct administration of this program.

During this period, the Commission was able to help support tours of Japan by significant 

American artists and art, including second tours of Japan by the Fiji Theater Company and the Bill 

T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and a series of performances and workshops at several sites 

in Japan by Eiko and Koma in collaboration with Native American musicians. In exchanges from 

Japan, the Commission was particularly active in supporting US tours by major performance 

troupes during this period, including the butoh troupes Sankaijuku and Butoh-Sha Tenkei. In 

addition, the Commission assisted with several major exhibitions of Japanese art in US museums, 

including a show of Momoyama-period art at the Dallas Museum of Art, and a retrospective show 

of the postwar avant garde art world of Japan entitled “Scream Against the Sky” in New York and 

San Francisco. A number of important collaborative projects were supported during this period, 

including the production of SILENCE by the Milwaukee Repertory Theater and the Institute of 

Dramatic Arts of Tokyo, the NOH Project by the June Watanabe Company and Japanese artists, 

and “Strange Nature,” organized by the American Composers Forum for American and Japanese 

composers and performers.

In view of the new infusion of funds from Japan to bring Japanese art, both visual and 

performance, to the United States, the Commission will place priority on helping support the 

exchange of American art to Japan. To begin this process, it made a grant in FY 1995 to the 

Japanese American Cultural & Community Center of Los Angeles for the “Japan-US Visual Arts 

Partnership Project” to help organize exhibitions of American visual art for exchange with 
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museums in Japanese prefectural centers.

6. CULCON

The US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) is a binational 

advisory panel to the two governments on cultural and educational relations between the two 

nations. In the United States, it is a program of the US Information Agency, and of the Ministry of 

Foreign Affairs in Japan. Its origins lie in discussions held in Washington, DC in 1961 between 

President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda.

In March, 1991 a bilateral accord to restructure and revitalize CULCON was adopted, calling for the 

establishment of permanent CULCON secretariats in Tokyo and Washington. With funding from 

the USIA, the US CULCON panel secretariat was established at the Japan-US Friendship 

Commission to administer CULCON programs.

In the past two years, CULCON has focused on two areas of activity: undergraduate student 

exchange and information access.

At its April, 1993 plenary session, and again at its January, 1995 plenary session, CULCON called 

for an effort to “significantly increase the number of American undergraduates studying in Japan in 

order to build better understanding and closer relations between the two countries.” CULCON 

efforts in this area have generated three integrated projects: the Bridging Project Clearinghouse; 

the Faculty and Development Project; and the Curriculum Abroad Project.

The Bridging Project Clearinghouse is a multi-faceted, multi-year effort that will encompass, 

among other elements, providing information about study opportunities in Japan for US 

undergraduate students, recruiting US students for study in Japan, and providing support services 

relating to that study. Fundraising for this project is underway.

The goal of the Faculty and Curriculum Development Project is to develop a corps of faculty 

members at US institutions who are sensitized to Japan-related issues and can incorporate material 

about Japan into regular curricula, especially where full-fledged Japan studies and Japanese 

language programs are not available. In addition to training students on Japan, such faculty 

members will help recruit students for study there. Together with a major grant from the US 

Department of Education, which also serves on CULCON, the Commission has provided funds to 

the Association of American Colleges & Universities to help teams of three faculty members each 

from eight universities to undertake a year of directed study of Japan and develop undergraduate 

curriculum to begin the project,.

The Curriculum Abroad Project is a three-year project to develop and implement model curricula in 

selected Japanese national universities for undergraduates studying there for semester or year-long 

terms. Currently, twenty national universities are participating in the program. Major funding for 

the initiative is provided by the Japanese Ministry of Education. The programs are taught in 

English with a strong Japanese language and culture component. The Department of Education’s 
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Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) has provided major funding for US 

participation in the discussion leading to the implementation of actual curriculum.

A binational working group under CULCON auspices has been established and charged with setting 

policy for all three projects above and for monitoring their progress.

A second focus for CULCON has been issues of information access between the two countries. A 

joint working group has developed an agenda to address a range of issues including: the current 

status of accessibility of public resources on the information highway in the United States and 

Japan; the needs for information; guidelines for fees, copyrights and technical obstacles; and new 

technologies for information access and sharing.

In 1996, CULCON published the third edition of ON THE RECORD, a directory of Japan specialists 

in the United States and Japan for use by US media personnel. This resource, published with 

funding from USIA, is available online through the US CULCON homepage.

The next round of CULCON meetings were held in Washington, DC on May 8-9, 1997.

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

project.

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

A. JAPANESE STUDIES IN AMERICAN

EDUCATION

Language

 1. Stanford University, for the 50,678,250

Inter-University Center for

Japanese Language Studies in

Yokohama - for advanced

 Japanese language training for

 American graduate students

Libraries

Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 1995

October 1, 1994 – September 30, 1995
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 2. International House of Japan, 3,000,000

Inc.- to support revision of

 the publication entitled "A

 Guide to Reference Books for

 Japanese Studies"

 3. National Coordinating 86,156 10,000,000

Committee on Japanese Library

Resources - to support the

 project "Planning and

 Coordinating, Operation

 Maintenance, and Project

 Execution of the National

 Coordinating Committee on

 Japan Library Resources, FY

 1995-1996"

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

Professional

Studies

 4. Columbia University, Graduate 85,772 6,955,900

School of Journalism - for

 training two future

 journalists for reporting in

 Japan. Includes funds for

 second half of 1994-1995

 program and first half of

 1995-1996 program

 5. Committee on Japanese Economic 80,000 3,750,000

Studies - for support of a

 program to train specialists

 on the Japanese economy

 6. Johns Hopkins University - for 44,200 1,392,000
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 support of a program for

 fellowships for disadvantaged

 students at the Nitze School

 of Advanced International

 Studies. Includes funds for

 second half of 1994-1995

 program and first half of

 1995-1996 program

 7. Massachusetts Institute of 37,200

Technology - for professional

 graduate fellowships and a

 summer workshop in technical

 Japanese language

Research

 8. Association for Asian Studies, 46,690 6,000,000

Northeast

Asia Council - for a program

 to enhance the quality of

 American research and

 instruction devoted to Japan,

 primarily for scholars not

 located in the major graduate

 research centers of Japanese

 studies. Yen portion includes

 3,000,000 for the 1996 year

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 9. Social Science Research 78,528 9,000,000

Council - for fellowship and

 administrative support for

 advanced research on Japan by

 American scholars
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 10. Society for Japanese Studies - 17,164

 to publish "The Journal of

 Japanese Studies"

Other

 11. Amherst College - to support 25,000

 the first year of a two-year

 project entitled "The

 Constitution of Japan: A

 Documentary History in

 English"

 12. Columbia University, The 17,449

Donald Keene

Center of Japanese Culture -

 prize for translation of

 Japanese literature

 13. Society for Japanese Studies - 23,450

 to support a two-day symposium

 entitled "Pacific North- west

 Symposium on the Heisei

 Transforma- tion of Japan"

 14. University of Hawaii 4,000

Foundation - to support the

 first conference, entitled

 "Taisho Demokurashii," of the

 Association for Asian

 Studies/Northeast Asia

 Council's conference series on

 competing modernities in 20th

 Century Japan

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES $545,609 ¥90,776,150

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants
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 Grants

B. THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES IN

JAPANESE EDUCATION

Research Centers

 1. Doshisha University, Center 4,400 5,000,000

for American Studies - to

 provide assistance in the

 development of a research

 collection and other related

 activities of the Center

 2. University of Tokyo, Center 2,000,000

for American Studies - to

 provide assistance in

 promoting activities of the

 Center

Faculty and

Curriculum

Development

 3. American Studies Association - 6,000 1,999,120

 to provide assistance in the

 final two years of a

 three-year collaborative

 project with members of the

 Japanese Association for

 American Studies. The yen

 portion includes support for

 the 1995 and 1996 programs

Other

 4. The American Studies Society 2,830 140,000

of the University of the

Ryukyus - to provide

 assistance in sending a guest
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 speaker from the United States

 to the sixteenth annual

 meeting to be held in Naha

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 5. The American Studies Society 2,000,000

of the Uni- versity of the

Ryukyus - to assist in pub-

 lishing the proceedings of a

 three-year project entitled

 "America and Postwar Okinawa:

 Fifty Years of Cross-Cultural

 Contact"

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE UNITED $13,230 ¥11,139,120

STATES IN JAPANESE

EDUCATION 

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

C. POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH

 1. Defense Budget Project - for 46,300

 the second half of the

 research project entitled

 "Potential Military

 Applications of Japanese

 Advanced Technology Transfers

 in East Asia: Implications

 for Regional Stability and

 Japan-US Relations"
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 2. Harvard University, The 52,800

Program on US-Japan Relations

 - for the research project

 entitled "Japanese Corporate

 Activities in Asia: Effects

 on Regional Integration and

 US-Japan Relations"

 3. Harvard University, The 30,000

Program on USJapan Relations - for the

 research project entitled "Who

 is in Charge? - Leadership and

 Influence in Contemporary

 Japan"

 4. Japan Forum on International 750,000

Relations - for the research

 project entitled "The Essence

 of US-Japan Economic Conflicts

 and Japan's Response"

 5. Mississippi State University - 19,609 459,800

 for the research project

 entitled "Global Partner-

 ship: A Multinational Study

 Group on Dumped Nuclear Waste

 in the Sea of Japan, Sea of

 Okhotsk and the North Pacific

 Ocean"

 6. US-Japan Joint Committee on 10,000

Politics & Economics of the

Contemporary Middle 

East - for the research

 project entitled "Politics and

 Economics of the Contempo-

 rary Middle East and the

 Possibilities of Japan-United

 States Cooperation"
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Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 7. University of California, 40,200 1,730,000

Berkeley - for the

 research project entitled "The

 Network

 Organization of Japan:

 Structure, Conse-

 quences and Change"

 8. University of California, 50,270

Berkeley - for final phase of

 the research project entitled

 "The Development of the East

 Asian Economic System: The

 Role of Investment from, and

 Trade with, Japan and the

 U.S."

 9. University of California, Los 15,000

Angeles - to publish the

 findings of the research

 project entitled "US/Japan

 Comparative Cultural Policy

 Project"

 10 University of California, San 25,000

 . Diego - for the research

 project entitled "The Economic

 Structure of Asia: Competing

 or Complementary Production

 Networks?"

 11. University of California, 36,168

Santa Cruz - for the research

 project entitled "The Context

 and Rationale for Deregulation

 in Japan: Real and Financial
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 Implications"

 12. University of Georgia - for 64,400 900,000

 the third and final year of a

 three-year research project

 entitled "Nonproliferation

 Export Control: US-Japanese

 Interests and Initiatives"

 13. University of Hawaii - for the 57,481

 research project entitled "The

 Political Economy of

 Deregulation in Japan:

 Sectors, Interest Groups and

 the Prospects for Meaningful

 Market Liberalization"

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 14. University of Washington - for 26,000

 the research project entitled

 "Facing Japanese Competi- tion

 in Asia: A Political-Economic

 Analy- sis"

TOTAL FOR POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH $473,228 ¥3,840,200

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

D. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

Outreach Programs 
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 1. Japan-America Society of 30,000

Charlotte - for a first year

 of administrative support

 2. Japan-America Society of 30,000

Cleveland - for a first year

 of administrative support

 3. Japan-America Society of 30,000

Minnesota - for a third and

 final year of administrative

 support

 4. Japan-America Society of 14,000

Northwest Florida - for a

 first year of administrative

 support

 5. Japan Society of Boston, Inc. 11,400

 - for support of a project

 entitled "Critical Issues in

 Japan and the US:

 Understanding the Demands of a

 New Society"

 6. National Association of 6,630

Japan-America Societies, Inc.

- for support of the second of

 a three-year project entitled

 "American Business Seminar

 Series"

 7. University of Arkansas - for a 27,165

 second year of administrative

 support for the Japan-America

 Society of Arkansas

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants
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 Grants

Counterpart

Exchanges

 8. Congressional Economic 65,000 3,985,000

Leadership Institute - for

 support of study trips to

 Japan in 1995 and 1996 by

 senior congressional staff

 members

 9. The George Washington 62,083 1,280,000

 . University - for support of

 "The US-Japan Economic Agenda:

 1995 Legislative Exchange

 Pro-

 gram"

 10 International House of Japan - 8,500,000

 . for services for American

 educational, cultural and

 professional institutions

 11. The National Security Archive 23,298

(The Tides Foundation) - for

 support of the project

 entitled "Public Forum in

 Japan on Public Access to

 Official Japanese Records"

Media

 12. Film Arts Foundation - for 25,000

 support of a film entitled

 "Stones and Paper," a one-hour

 documentary on the American

 sculptor Isamu Noguchi

 13. Film News Now Foundation -for 15,000

 support of a film entitled
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 "Doubles: Japan and America's

 Intercultural Children"

 14. Films for Humanity - for 15,000

 support of a film entitled

 "SENSEI: A Documentary

 Profile of Akira Kurosawa"

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 15. Pittsburgh Filmmakers - for 12,500

 support of a film entitled

 "Frank Lloyd Wright and

 Japanese Art"

 16. Public Radio International - 25,000

 for the inter-

 national news program "Market

 Place: Japan Desk"

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION $392,076 ¥13,765,000

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

E. THE ARTS

 1. Exchange Fellowships for 26,492 21,390,000

Creative Artists -

 Jointly-sponsored program

 funded by the Japan-United

 States Friendship Commission

 and the U.S. National

 Endowment for the Arts. The
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 funds devoted to this program

 include $75,000 received from

 the National Endowment for the

 Arts. Grant funds for the

 artists in FY 1995 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:

 David Blair

 Margarita Guergue

 Sandra Higbie

 Mark Klett*

 Wendy L. Maruyama

 Richard M. Wiley

 *Received offer in FY 1994 but

 deferred

 grant until FY 1995.

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

American Performances/Exhibitions

in Japan

 2. Fiji Theater Company - for 45,000

 support of costs associated

 with the production of DESHIMA

 at the 1995 Tokyo

 International Festival and

 various other sites in Japan
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 3. Foundation for Dance Promotion 45,000

 - for support of costs

 associated with the Bill T.

 Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

 1995 Japan tour

Japanese Performances/Exhibitions

in the United States

 4. Dallas Museum of Art - for 30,000

 costs associated with

 publication of the exhibition

 catalogue "Power and Glory:

 The Arts of Japan's Golden Age

 (1568-1615)"

 5. June Watanabe In Company - for 20,000

 costs associated with The Noh

 Project

 6. Milwaukee Repertory Theater - 45,000

 for costs associated with the

 production of SILENCE, a

 collaboration with the

 Institute of Dramatic Arts of

 Tokyo

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 7. Portland State University - 9,390 200,450

 for costs associated with

 "Portland International

 Performance Festival:

 Japanese Contemporary Artists

 in Residence"

 8. San Francisco Museum of Modern 19,500
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Art - for costs associated

 with the exhibit "Japanese

 Avant-Garde Art of the Postwar

 Era Since 1945: Scream

 Against the Sky"

 9. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum - 19,500

 for costs associated with the

 exhibit "Japanese Avant-Garde

 Art of the Postwar Era Since

 1945: Scream Against the Sky"

Other

 10. The Artist Trust - for a 25,793

 project to produce a published

 history of the Commission by

 former Creative Artist Fellow,

 Tommer Peterson

 11. Japanese American Cultural & 10,800 1,665,000

Community Center - for the

 Japan-US Visual Arts

 Partnership Project

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $296,475 ¥23,255,450

Commission Program Totals U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen

 Expenses Expenses

 Japanese Studies $ 90,776,150

 545,609

 The Study of the United States 13,230 11,139,120

 in Japanese

 Education

 Policy-Oriented Research 473,228 3,840,200
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 Public Affairs/Education 392,076 13,765,000

 The Arts 296,475 23,255,450

TOTAL $1,720,618 ¥142,775,92

 0

 U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen

 Expenses Expenses

F. CULCON ACTIVITIES FUNDED BY

TRANSFER FROM USIA

 1. Undergraduate Educational $ 5,625

 Exchange

 Oversight Committee

 2. Media Working Group 18,755

 3. Information Access Working 945

 Group

 4. CULCON XVII Plenary Session 37,195

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES FUNDED $62,520

BY TRANSFER FROM USIA

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 1995

 Personnel $277,515

 General Services 42,800

 Administration for Payroll,

 Accounting and Other Services

 Office Space 33,204
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 Travel 17,927

 Communications 5,613

 Printing, Supplies, 10,613

 Publications

 Equipment 2,896

 Other 14,023

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION $404,591

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 1995

 Personnel $71,945

 Communications 800

 Supplies 210

 Other 250

TOTAL FOR CULCON ADMINISTRATIVE $73,205

COSTS

Appropriated Dollar Fund Income and Expense Statement

Fiscal Year 1995

(10-1-94 through 9-30-95)

INCOME

 Net Interest (Earned Basis) $1,175,832
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 Refunds on Grants 90,594

 Received from the National 75,000

 Endowment for the Arts

 Received from the U.S. 135,725

 Information Agency

 for CULCON support

 Transfer from Yen Account 187,000

 TOTAL INCOME $1,664,151

EXPENSES

 Commission Grants $1,720,618

 Commission Administration 404,591

 CULCON Task Force 25,325

 CULCON Administration 73,205

 CULCON Plenary 37,195

 TOTAL EXPENSE (GROSS) $2,260,934

 Japanese Government Gift Fund (594,040)

 (Non-Appropriated)

 TOTAL EXPENSE (NET) $1,666,894

 GAIN OR (LOSS) ($2,743)

Appropriated Dollar Fund Balance

 Original Appropriation, 1-1-76 $18,000,00

 0
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 Fund Balance, 9-30-94 14,966,000

 Cash on hand, 9-30-94 57,290

 Income or (loss) (2,743)

 FUND BALANCE, 9-30-95 

 Portfolio $14,966,00

 Cash on hand, 9-30-95 0 $ 

 54,547

Japanese Government Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 1995

(10-1-94 through 9-30-95)

 Balance, 9-30-94 $1,586,018

 Grants 594,040

 Administrative Expenses 5,275

 Interest Income 122,000

 Refunds on Grants 5,179

 BALANCE, 9-30-95 $1,113,882

Appropriated Yen Fund Income and Expense Statement

Fiscal Year 1995

(10-1-94 through 9-30-95)

INCOME

 Discount on Bill ¥

 1,276,640
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 Interest on Japanese 158,509,234

 Government Bonds and Bank

 Deposits

 Refunds on Grants 3,911,143

 TOTAL INCOME ¥163,697,01

7

EXPENSES

 Grants ¥142,775,92

 0

 Administration 2,318,700

 Transfer to Dollar Account 18,681,300

 Fees 610,000

 TOTAL EXPENSE ¥164,385,92

0

 GAIN OR (LOSS) (¥688,903)

Appropriated Yen Fund Balance 

 Original Appropriation ¥3,615,429,4

 Received, 11-1-76 55

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

 Fund Balance, 9-30-94 3,538,346,72

 4

 Cash on hand, 9-30-94 3,199,013

 Income or (loss) (688,903)
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NOTE: In the listings below, in many cases Commission support met only partial costs of the total 

project.

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

A. JAPANESE STUDIES IN AMERICAN

EDUCATION

Language

 1. Stanford University, for the 43,900 50,500,000

Inter-University Center for

Japanese Language Studies in

Yokohama - for advanced

 Japanese language training for

 American graduate students and

 for the Center's Financial

 Advisory Committee

Libraries

 2. National Coordinating 52,000 10,000,000

Committee on Japanese Library

Resources - for continuation

 and expansion of activities,

 and support of the National

 Program for Coordinated

 FUND BALANCE, 9-30-95 

 Portfolio ¥3,538,346,7

 Cash on Hand, 9-30-95 24 ¥ 

2,510,110

Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 1996

October 1, 1995 – September 30, 1996
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 Japanese Library Acquisitions

 of Multi-Volume Sets and

 External User Services

Professional

Studies

 3. American Society for 75,407

Engineering Education - for

 support of a program to

 provide nine-month internships

 to train US engineering

 graduates in Japan

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 4. American University - for 23,076

 tuition scholar- ships for two

 students to participate in the

 second year of the

 University's "Dual Masters

 Degree Program" with

 Ritsumeikan University

 5. Columbia University, Graduate 5,800 6,930,000

School of Journalism - for

 training two future

 journalists for reporting in

 Japan

 6. Committee on Japanese Economic 50,315 3,750,000

Studies -

 for support of program to

 train specialists on the

 Japanese economy

 7. Johns Hopkins University - for 24,200
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 support of a program for

 fellowships for disadvantaged

 students at the Nitze School

 of Advanced International

 Studies

 8. Massachusetts Institute of 22,200

Technology MIT-Japan Program -

 for support of the training,

 research and public affairs

 program on Japanese technology

 and management

Research

 9. The Association for Asian 46,460 3,000,000

Studies, Northeast Asia

Council - for the various

 programs the Council

 undertakes to pro- mote the

 teaching and study of Japan in

 the United States

 10. Social Science Research 78,528 3,000,000

Council - for fellowship and

 administrative support for

 advanced research on Japan by

 American scholars

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 11. Society for Japanese Studies - 10,000

 for publica- tion of "The

 Journal of Japanese Studies"

 12. University of Colorado at 16,988

Denver - for publication and
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 dissemination of the results

 of a survey of Japanese

 programs in colleges and

 schools of business in the

 United States

Other

 13. Amherst College - for support 25,000

 of the second and last year of

 a project entitled "The

 Constitution of Japan: A

 Documentary History in

 English"

 14. The Association for Asian 2,250

Studies, North- east Asia

Council - for creation of a

 data- base system to manage

 the Northeast Asia Council's

 activities undertaken with

 support from the Japan-US

 Friendship Commission

 15. Cornell University - for 4,505

 support of a scholarly panel

 organized by the American

 Anthropological Association to

 be held on the occasion of the

 50th anniversary of the

 publication of "The

 Chrysanthemum and the Sword"

 16. NAFEO - for support of a 38,780

 project to expand Japanese

 studies programs in the

 curricula of historically

 black colleges and universi-

 ties

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES $519,409 ¥77,180,000
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Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

B. THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES IN

JAPANESE EDUCATION

Research Centers

 1. Doshisha University, Center 2,572,000

for American Studies - to

 provide assistance for the

 activities of the Center

Faculty and

Curriculum

Development

 2. American Studies Association - 6,000

 to provide support of the

 project entitled "Japan-United

 States Dialogues Across the

 Pacific: Curriculum, Program,

 and Faculty Development for an

 International American

 Studies"

Other

 3. International House of Japan, 1,900,000

Inc. - to provide support for

 the project entitled "Survey

 on American Studies in Japan"

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE UNITED $6,000 ¥4,472,000

STATES IN JAPANESE EDUCATION
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Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

C. POLICY-ORIENTED RESEARCH

 1. Columbia University - for the 11,730

 research project entitled

 "International Competitive-

 ness and the Management of

 Japanese and American

 Transnational Corporations in

 Asia" at the Center on

 Japanese Economy and Business

 2. Georgia Tech Research 37,247

Corporation - for the research

 project entitled "Deregulating

 Japan's Health Care and

 Pension Systems"

 3. Japan Information Access 23,774

Project - for the research

 project entitled "The

 Political Economy of

 Deregulation in Japan:

 Sectors, Interest Groups and

 the Prospects for Meaningful

 Market Liberalization"

 4. Japan Information Access 19,607

Project - for dissemination of

 policy information in

 Washington, D.C. on Japanese

 deregulation

 5. Middle East Institute - for 10,000

 the research project entitled

 "Japan, the United States and

 the Middle East"
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 6. Pacific Forum CSIS - for the 30,000

 research project entitled

 "Cooperation Among Japan,

 China and the US on Security

 in East Asia"

 7. Purdue University - for the 39,101

 research project entitled "The

 Political Economy of

 Deregulation in Japan:

 Sectors, Interest Groups and

 the Prospects for Meaningful

 Market Liberalization"

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 8. University of California, 55,500

Berkeley - for the second and

 final year of the research

 project entitled "The Network

 Organization of Japan: A

 Continuing Research Program"

 9. University of California, San 43,746

Diego - for the research

 project entitled "Deregulation

 and the Japanese Firm"

 10 University of California - for 25,852

 . the second and final year of

 the research project entitled

 "The Economic Structure of

 Asia: Competing or

 Complementary Production

 Networks?"

 11. University of California, San 54,471
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Diego - for the research

 project entitled "Power and

 Prosperity: Linkages between

 Security and Economics in

 US-Japanese Relations since

 1960"

 12. University of California, 34,457

Santa Cruz - for the second

 and final year of the research

 project entitled "The Context

 and Rationale for Deregulation

 in Japan: Real and Financial

 Implications"

 13. University of Hawaii at Manoa 24,085

 - for the second and final

 year of the research project

 entitled "The Political

 Economy of Deregu- lation in

 Japan: Sectors, Interest

 Groups and the Prospects for

 Meaningful Market

 Liberalization"

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 14. University of Nevada - for the 8,650 630,000

 research project entitled "The

 Postal Savings System in the

 Context of Financial

 Liberalization, Monetary

 Policy, and Government Deposit

 Guarantees"

 15. University of Washington - for 38,101

 the research project entitled
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 "Regulating Electronics:

 Japan's State Management of

 Competition in the

 Telecommunications, Computer,

 Semiconductor, Software and

 Consumer Electronics

 Industries"

 16. The Woodrow Wilson Center - 25,000

 for the research project

 entitled "A Conference on

 Policy Implications of

 Japanese Investment in Asia"

TOTAL FOR POLICY-ORIENTED $481,321 ¥630,000

RESEARCH 

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

D. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

Outreach Programs

 1. Japan-America Society of 30,000

Charlotte - for a second year

 of administrative support

 2. Japan-America Society of 30,000

Greater Philadelphia - for a

 first year of administrative

 support

 3. Japan-America Society of 15,000

Ithaca Area - for a first year

 of administrative support

 4. Japan-America Society of 30,000
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Nevada - for a first year of

 administrative support

 5. Japan-America Society of 14,000

Northwest Florida - for a

 second year of administrative

 support

 6. Japan-America Society of the 30,000

State of Washington - for

 support of Year One of the

 project "US-Japan Links"

 7. Japan Society of Cleveland - 27,550

 for a second year of

 administrative support

 8. National Association of 6,630

Japan-America Societies - for

 the third and final year of

 the project entitled "The

 American Business Seminar

 Series"

 9. National Association of 2,339

Japan-America Societies - for

 a press conference held in

 Washington, D.C. for Japanese

 journalists

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 10. University of Arkansas - for a 29,600

 third and final year of

 administrative support for the

 Japan-America Society of

 Arkansas
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Counterpart

Exchanges

 11. Congressional Economic 3,985,000

Leadership Institute - for a

 study tour to Japan by senior

 congressional staff members

 12. The George Washington 62,623 1,280,000

University - for support of

 "The US-Japan Economic Agenda:

 1996 Legislative Exchange

 Program"

 13. International House of Japan, 8,500,000

Inc. - for services for

 American educational, cultural

 and professional institutions

 14. Life Foundation - for the 4,000

 project entitled "Banishing

 Fear: AIDS Awareness Sharing

 Between the US and Japan"

 15. US Association of Former 20,000

Members of Congress - for the

 Congressional Study Group on

 Japan under the leadership of

 Senator Max Baucus and

 Congressman Thomas E. Petri

Media and Dissemination

 16. Global Film Network - for the 30,000

 film "After America...After

 Japan"

 17. Japan Information Access 46,200

Project - for support of the

 project entitled "Rethinking
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 the Dissemination of Japanese

 Information"

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen Grants

 Grants

 18. Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Kenneth 20,000

Love - for postproduction

 costs of a film entitled

 "Frank Lloyd Wright and

 Japanese Art"

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION $397,942 ¥15,045,000

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen

 Grants Grants

E. THE ARTS

 1. Exchange Fellowships for 22,783 9,390,000

Creative Artists

-Jointly-sponsored program

 funded by the Japan-United

 States Friendship Commission

 and the U.S. 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 1996 are

 administered in Japan for the

 Commission by the

 International House of Japan,

 Inc. Yen funds are provided
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 for the ensuing program year.

 Artists sponsored under the

 exchange fellowships:

 Jill Baroff

 Bruce Chao

 Mei-ling Hom

 Christine LoFaso

 Roy Staab

American Performances/Exhibitions

in Japan

 2. Foundation for Independent 7,500

Artists, Inc. - for support of

 a project to present Native

 American musicians in concerts

 and workshops in Japan

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen

 Grants Grants

Japanese Performances/Exhibitions

in the United States

 3. AN Creative - for support of a 33,345

 project to present eight

 contemporary Japanese dance

 companies at the annual

 conferences of the

 International Society of

 Performing Arts

 Administrators, and the

 Association of Performing Arts

 Presenters

 4. LaMaMa, E.T.C. - for support 9,200
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 of several performances of a

 work entitled "Natural Sonic"

 by the Japanese composer

 Yoshiaki Ochi

 5. Sankai Juku - for multiple 48,000

 performances throughout the

 United States during the 1996

 North American tour

 6. Theater Artaud - for support 20,500

 of a five-state US tour by the

 Japanese dance company

 Buto-Sha Tenkei

Other

 7. The American Composers Forum - 10,160

 for support of a collaborative

 project entitled "Strange

 Nature Residency During Sonic

 Circuits IV"

 8. CEC International Partners, 5,000

Inc. - for support of the

 screening process to review

 the 1996 applications to the

 US/Japan Creative Artists'

 Fellowship Program

Grants Awarded U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen

 Grants Grants

 9. Center for Poetry and 18,500

Translation at 

Djerassi - for support of

 collaborative translation of

 modern Japanese poetry by
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 American translators

 10. Hamilton College - for support 6,630 `

 of a series of conferences on

 contemporary Japanese music

 featuring lectures and

 discussions, workshops and

 performances by the composers

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS $181,618 ¥9,390,000

Commission Program Totals U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen

 Expenses Expenses

 Japanese Studies $ ¥77,180,000

 519,409

 The Study of the United States

 in Japanese Education 6,000 4,472,000

 Policy-Oriented Research 481,321 630,000

 Public Affairs/Education 397,942 15,045,000

 The Arts 181,618 9,390,000

TOTAL $1,586,290 ¥106,717,00

 0

 U.S. Japanese

 Dollar Yen

 Expenses Expenses

F. CULCON ACTIVITIES FUNDED BY

 TRANSFER FROM USIA
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 1. Undergraduate Educational 4,105

 Exchange Oversight Committee

 2. Media Working Group 10,548

 3. Information Access Working 5,672

 Group

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES FUNDED $20,325

BY TRANSFER FROM USIA

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 1996

 Personnel $293,894

 General Services 33,322

 Administration for Payroll,

 Accounting and Other Services

 Office Space 33,622

 Travel 18,073

 Communications 9,503

 Printing, Supplies, 4,978

 Publications

 Equipment 333

 Other 28,206

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION $421,931

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 1996
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 Personnel $77,358

 Communications 400

 Office Supplies 200

 Other 250

TOTAL FOR CULCON ADMINISTRATIVE $78,208

COSTS

Appropriated Dollar Fund Income and Expense Statement

Fiscal Year 1996

(10-1-95 through 9-30-96)

INCOME

 Net Interest (Earned Basis) $1,226,503

 Refunds on Grants 91,351

 Received from the National 75,000

 Endowment for the Arts

 Received from the U.S. 98,533

 Information Agency for CULCON

 support

 Transfer from Yen Account 125,000

 TOTAL INCOME $1,616,387

EXPENSES

 Commission Grants $1,586,290

 Commission Administration 421,931
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 CULCON Task Forces 20,325

 CULCON Administration 78,208

 TOTAL EXPENSE (GROSS) $2,106,754

 Japanese Government Gift Fund (489,223)

 (Non-Appropriated)

 TOTAL EXPENSE (NET) $1,617,531

 GAIN OR (LOSS) ($1,144)

Appropriated Dollar Fund Balance

 Original Appropriation, 1-1-76 $18,000,00

 0

 Fund Balance, 9-30-95 14,966,000

 Cash on hand, 9-30-95 54,547

 Income or (loss) (1,144)

 FUND BALANCE, 9-30-96

 Portfolio $14,966,00

0

 Cash on hand, 9-30-96 $53,403

Japanese Government Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 1996

(10-1-95 through 9-30-96)

 Balance, 9-30-95 $1,113,882
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 Grants 489,223

 Administrative Expenses 6,527

 Interest Income 124,980

 Refunds on Grants 6,344

 BALANCE, 9-30-96 $749,456

Appropriated Yen Fund Income and Expense Statement

Fiscal Year 1996

(10-1-95 through 9-30-96)

INCOME

 Discount on Bill 770,796

 Interest on Japanese ¥115,618,23

 Government Bonds and Bank 3

 Deposits

 Refunds on Grants 1,530,106

 TOTAL INCOME ¥117,919,13

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EXPENSES

 Grants ¥106,717,00

 0

 Administration 4,177,052

 Transfer to Dollar Account 7,581,150

 Fees 712,658
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 GAIN OR (LOSS) (¥1,268,725

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Appropriated Yen Fund Balance

 Original Appropriation ¥3,615,429,4

 Received, 11-1-76 55

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

 Fund Balance, 9-30-95 3,538,346,72

 4

 Cash on hand, 9-30-95 2,510,110

 Income or (loss) (1,268,725)

 FUND BALANCE, 9-30-96

 Portfolio ¥3,538,346,7

 Cash on hand, 9-30-96 24

¥1,241,385