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2003–2004 Biennial Report

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Japan-United States Friendship Commission 2003-2004 Biennial Report

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

training, education and information management to help prepare Americans to meet the challenges 

and opportunities in the US-Japan relationship of the 21st century. It works through providing 

grants to non-profit entities in the following areas:

—Japanese Studies in the United States

—Public Affairs/Education

—The Study of the United States in Japan

—The Arts

The Commission, 2003-2004

Chairman:

Dr. Richard J. Samuels* ** 

Ford International Professor of Political 

Science 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Vice-Chairman:

Dr. Amy V. Heinrich* ** 

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Dr. Richard E. Dyck** 

President 

TCS Japan, KK

The Honorable Dana Gioia

The Honorable Patricia De Stacy Harrison* ** 

Assistant Secretary of State for Educational 

and Cultural Affairs 

US Department of State

The Honorable James A. Kelly** 

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian 

and Pacific Affairs 

US Department of State

Dr. Linda K. Kerber* ** 

May Brodbeck Professor in Liberal Arts 

University of Iowa

Mr. Theodore R. •gRegge•h Life, Jr. * ** 

Filmmaker

Ms. Doris O. Matsui** 

Senior Advisor 

Collier, Shannon Scott PLLC

The Honorable James McDermott 

United States House of Representatives

The Honorable Thomas E. Petri* 

United States House of Representatives

The Honorable John D. Rockefeller, IV* 

United States Senate

Director, CV Starr East Asian Library 

Columbia University

Members: 

The Honorable Bruce Cole 

Chairman 

National Endowment for the Humanities

Chairman 

National Endowment for the Arts
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Mr. Francis Y. Sogi** 

Life Partner 

Kelley Drye & Warren

Mr. Frank P. Stanek** 

President 

Stanek Global Advisors

Dr. Patricia G. Steinhoff** 

Professor 

Department of Sociology 

University of Hawai•fi

The Honorable Sally Stroup** 

Assistant Secretary of Education for PostSecondary Education 

US Department of Education

Ms. Margaret P. Mihori 

Assistant Executive Director

Ms. Pamela L. Fields

Assistant Executive Director, CULCON

Ms. Sylvia L. Dandridge

Secretary

I am pleased to present the Japan-US Friendship Commission•fs biennial report for Fiscal Years 

2003 and 2004.

During the period of this report, the Commission streamlined its programs into four categories and 

began the practice of offering three-year grants to selected grantees. By offering three-year grants, 

the Commission hopes to reduce administrative burdens on the thinly-stretched staffs of the nonStaff: 

Dr. Eric J. Gangloff 

Executive Director

*Members of the Executive Committee 

**Members of the US CULCON Panel

A Message from the Chairman
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profit institutions that it supports. Also, the Commission aims to help these institutions embark on 

longer-term planning and acquire greater leverage in approaching other sources of support.

Among the institutions supported by the Commission during this period, none is more important 

than the International House of Japan, a •ghome-away-from-home•h for many scholars visiting 

Japan. The •gI-House•h is undergoing renovation of its facility and restructuring of its programs. 

It also underwent a change in leadership in 2004, when Dr. Motoo Kaji stepped down, and Mr. 

Takasu Takagaki succeeded him as chairman of the board. The I-House is an institution with 

perhaps the longest history of support among our grantees, and we are pleased to work closely with 

Mr. Takagaki during this transition.

In November, 2003, CULCON, closely related to the Commission, held its twenty-first plenary 

session at Sendai, Japan. The session was highlighted by the presentation of Cross Currents, a 

CULCON-inspired website and teaching tool devoted to mutual influences among Japanese and 

American educational, cultural, artistic and social institutions of the past fifty years. I encourage 

you to visit it at www.crosscurrents.hawaii.edu. In addition, CULCON adopted as its next focus the 

development of global awareness in the emerging generation of US-Japan leaders.

Finally, I am pleased to report that the US-Japan Bridging Foundation, inspired by CULCON and 

established by the Commission to raise scholarships for American undergraduates in Japan, 

surpassed its original goal of $2,000,000 in 2004 under the chairmanship of Dr. Richard J. Wood. 

It also surpassed its original goal of sending 500 students to study for semester- or year-long 

periods in Japan. The number of students applying for scholarships continues to exceed five 

applicants for every scholarship. The quality of applications remains high. The Foundation could 

easily double its fundraising activity and still not fulfill the demand. I remain highly optimistic 

about the visibility and desirability of Japan as a target for young Americans•f study and exchange 

in the years to come.

I would like to thank the board members with whom I have worked closely to effect meaningful 

change in the Commission, CULCON and the Bridging Foundation. I would also like to thank the 

officers and staff for their outstanding job of managing the affairs of these organizations.

Richard J. Samuels

Chairman

February, 2005

The Japan-US Friendship Commission in 2003-2004
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The Japan-United States Friendship Commission (•gCommission•h) is pleased to submit this 

report on its twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth years of operations for the period October 1, 2002 

to September 30, 2004, which corresponds to the federal Fiscal Years 2003 and 2004.

The Japan-US 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 relation-ship 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 mutual under-standing and respect.

Thus the Congress established the Commission, a unique federal agency in that its purpose is to 

promote understanding with a single foreign country. 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. 

These two funds represented a portion of the money paid by Japan to compensate the United States 

for post-World War II assistance, and for certain public facilities on Okinawa at the time of the 

reversion of the Ryukyus. The former payment became the yen fund, and the latter the dollar fund. 

The Commission was authorized to invest the Trust Fund in government obligations, and to expend 

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

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

the Commission to invest any gifts it may receive and to spend the principal and interest earnings 

from gifts without reference to the appropriations process. The Act was amended again in 1998 to 

make the dollar and yen funds interchangeable, allowing the Commission to seek the highest return 

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

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

of a board of eighteen commissioners and a permanent staff of four officers. The Board is divided 

equally between nine senior representatives of the United States government from the legislative 

and executive branches, and nine private citizens, including the chairman. Of these eighteen, 

twelve members, including the private citizens and the representatives from the Departments of 

State and Education, serve ex officio on the Commission by virtue of their appointment to 

CULCON, a bi-national advisory board to the two governments in educational and cultural affairs. 

The Board’s responsibility is to manage the Trust Fund by investing it and using the proceeds to 

make grants to institutions in the United States and Japan to develop programs of education and 

exchange.

The Commission•fs mission remains as valid now as when it was established. The relationship 

between Japan and the United States is unique in its sheer size, in its variety and complexity, and in 

Background and Overview
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its mixture of cooperation and competition, friendship and rivalry. That relationship, however, 

stands on the cusp of change.

The regional and global environments that surround and condition the bilateral relationship are in 

the process of restructuring. Globalization has changed the terms of international trade, and this 

has in turn impacted the core concerns of US-Japan trade and economic relations permanently. 

 The consequences of this new global economic environment are still unknown. International 

terrorism and the emergence of China as a great power are changing the terms of global security. 

This again has profound implications for US-Japan security and political relations that continue to 

evolve. The new global environment has forced both nations to examine anew the fundamental 

character of bilateral economic, security and political ties and to reassess their optimal 

management.

The history of the past sixty years demonstrates that the United States and Japan have much in 

common in terms of broad national objectives. In the short term, however, each nation has its own 

objectives and concerns, and identification with each other•fs objectives and concerns has become 

more difficult in the new global environment. Moreover, the record of the past sixty years shows 

that differences in thought patterns, value systems, social and economic behavior, decision-making 

processes and means of communication can lead to mutual misunderstanding and friction.

There is above all a language barrier that all too often forces each nation to react to the other 

through stereotypes. There is a severe imbalance in the amount of attention that the media in the 

two countries devote to each other. There is, moreover, growing recognition that many of the 

problems that exist and persist in the relationship are not amenable to easy solutions occasioned by 

enhanced cultural understanding alone. We need greater knowledge of the character and causes of 

these problems – knowledge that might help us craft more effective policy in our management of 

the bilateral relationship. It is the Commission•fs primary purpose to help generate and 

disseminate new knowledge and insight, based on the results of rigorous, independent, scholarly 

research, that will help shape and inform each country•fs understanding of the other, both inside 

and outside the academy, leading in the Commission•fs view to a more sustainable and balanced 

relationship.

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

the conditions both of its financial management and of the bilateral relationship. It asks that the 

projects it supports take cognizance of the new relationship and each in its own way contribute 

back to the public good that Congress envisioned and sought to embody in PL 94-118.

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 

Program Highlights

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years, Japanese studies in the United States remained the largest single category of Commission 

support in this period.

During this period, the most important step the Commission took in support of Japanese studies in 

the United States was to institute the practice of making three-year commitments to grantee 

institutions that support basic activities in the field. The Commission invited and approved 

proposals for three-year grants from both the Interuniversity Center for Japanese Language Studies 

and the Northeast Asian Council of the Association for Asian Studies. The Commission has full 

confidence in the training and research programs offered by these institutions; its purpose in 

inviting three-year grant proposals was 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 the quality and future prospects of their programs. Given the success of these first 

two invitations, the Commission will consider issuing similar invitations to select grantees of longstanding in the future.

Another major change in the administration of the Commission•fs support for programs of basic 

scholarly research in the field was to shift its program of advanced social science research 

fellowships on Japan from the Social Science Research Council to the National Endowment for the 

Humanities, a constituent member of the Commission•fs board of governors. The Commission 

made this decision in light of the NEH•fs continued strong support for foreign language skills and 

area expertise and the production of new knowledge based on the scholarly use of those skills.

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

coordination between Commission support 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 

website Cross Currents under development at the University of Hawai•fi (under the category of 

Public Affairs/Education), and in particular, in-kind support for the US-Japan Bridging 

Foundation, which serves to raise funds to help send more US undergraduates to study in Japan, a 

long-standing CULCON priority.

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, the Organization of 

American Historians and the Economic Historians Association, and counterpart organizations in 

Japan. In addition, it helped launch a similar exchange between the African American Literature 

and Culture Society and the Japan Black Studies Association with a grant to Indiana State 

University. 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.

2. The Study of the United States 
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Senior figures in the field in Japan have continued to express their concern to the Commission that 

their highest priority lies in the support of Japanese graduate students in the field, and the 

nurturing of a new generation to take the place of the current generation of specialists at Japanese 

universities as they begin to retire. The Commission studied the issue in consultation with experts 

in both countries and then worked with the Graduate School for American Studies at Doshisha 

University in Kyoto to devise a national competition for Japanese students of American studies for 

funds to support field research in the United States. The Commission funded a pilot program for 

this effort in FY 2002. With the success of the pilot, the Commission continued its support of that 

effort with a second grant in FY 2004. It also provided support for graduate students through its 

grants to the academic associations listed above. In addition, the Commission provided support to 

American studies research centers at Doshisha and Ryukyus Universities for an array of research, 

work-shop and conference programs.

The Commission•fs support for activities in public affairs and education remains lively. Through it, 

the Commission endeavors to meet the growing demand for information on Japan throughout the 

United States. It emphasizes projects that provide education and information both to selected 

groups of political and professional leaders, and to the American public at large. Projects in Public 

Affairs/Education fall under two general headings: Counterpart Exchanges and Media. The 

following provides brief descriptions of some highlights of the many project supported by the 

Commission in this category during the period of this report.

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

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

Economic Agenda Legislative Exchange Program at The George Washington University for 

meetings between members of the Japanese Diet and US Congress, the United States Association of 

Former Members of Congress for the Congressional Study Group on Japan, and the Congressional 

Economic Leadership Institute for support of study tours of Japan by Members of Congress and 

their staff. In addition, the Commission gave support for exchanges among healthcare providers in 

the United States and Japan who use art as part of their therapy. Also, it helped foster policy dialog 

on a trilateral basis with Korean participants through a grant to the Japan Society and with Chinese 

participants through grants to the Pacific Forum/Center for Strategic and International Studies.

In FY 2001 the Commission helped launch the Japan Forum at the National Bureau of Asian 

Research, a public on-line forum on Japan and US-Japan relations. This pilot project to harness 

the power of the Internet in discussion and analysis of the US-Japan relationship proved extremely 

successful, and the Commission has provided support for this open discussion forum through the 

period under report. In addition, the Commission provided support to the Information 

Clearinghouse Japan in both years to help it build a database on the worldwide web of actions 

taken on appeals made to local review boards overseeing Japan•fs prefectural information 

disclosure laws. This database will be searchable in both Japanese and English and will provide the 

only analytical tool available to assess the effectiveness of this important area of Japanese 

3. Public Affairs/Education
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legislation.

While the internet-based projects above are recent initiatives, the Commission also continued to 

foster its traditional public affairs programs through support for the International House of Japan, 

where the Commission had provided an annual grant since the latter•fs establishment for the 

International House•fs facilitative activities. Also, the Commission provided support to the 

National Association of Japan-America Societies (NAJAS) during the period under report, to offer 

mentorship training to new executive directors of the regional Japan-America societies. The 

Commission was instrumental in helping establish NAJAS and many of the individual JapanAmerica societies in the United States in the 1980s and early 1990s. Many are now firmly 

established in their home communities, while NAJAS has established itself as the leading national 

voice in the promotion of closer ties between regional leadership in the United States and Japan. 

The Commission was pleased to revisit these societies and reaffirm its support of their activities by 

helping strengthen a new generation of regional leadership as the first generation of society 

directors has begun to retire.

Finally, the period under review saw particularly lively Commission support for the production of 

documentary films on a variety of subject matters concerning Japanese society and US-Japan 

relations.

The Commission continues to support projects in the arts in the firm belief that art is one of the 

most effective means of fostering better understanding between the two countries. It recognizes 

that it must take an increasingly selective approach to funding in this field, given financial 

pressures in other program areas. Thus beginning in FY 1999, the Commission set as its priority 

for support in the arts projects to send American exhibitions and performing arts groups to Japan.

Presentation of American arts and artists, especially at venues outside Tokyo, does not have a wellestablished history. While the Commission worked to implement this priority directly, it also 

worked with the National Endowment for the Arts to design a structure that would take the lead in 

facilitating the presentation of American art in Japan. Thus, in FY 2002 the Commission made a 

grant to Arts Midwest to establish the Cultural Trade Network (CTN), an office inside Arts Midwest 

devoted to this purpose. The pilot program proved successful, and the Commission has continued 

to support the CTN through the period under report. The Commission expects it will help not only 

increase the flow of American performing art to Japan, but also help leverage funding from state 

and local sources to support the costs of such exchanges. Readers will find in this biennial report 

an increased number of grants to send American performing arts troupes to Japan, not only to 

venues in Tokyo, but increasingly to regional venues, facilitated in many instances by the CTN.

In FY 2003 and FY 2004 the Commission continued to work closely with the National Endowment 

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

Artists Exchange Fellowship Program. Under this program, five Fellows annually spend six months 

in Japan, immersed in Japanese culture and its manifestations in their fields and in training in the 

4. The Arts
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arts. In addition, the Commission continued to provide support to the International House of 

Japan to hire an expert to facilitate the program on site. The Commission has also upgraded the 

program by adding a fund for resident Fellows to use for collaborative projects while they are in 

Japan.

CULCON (the US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange), a binational 

advisory panel to the governments of the United States and of Japan, serves to focus official and 

public attention in both countries on the vital cultural and educational underpinnings of the 

bilateral relationship. Its origins lie in discussions held in 1961 between President John F. Kennedy 

and Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda.

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

to Department of State oversight with the consolidation of foreign affairs agencies in 1999. In 1991, 

permanent secretariats were established in Tokyo and Washington to provide continuity to 

CULCON activities. The US Secretariat was established at the Commission, given the close 

relationship between CULCON and Commission membership. Since 1991, US CULCON has 

become a highly visible, proactive organization, emphasizing the implementation of CULCON 

recommendations, frequently with the Commission•fs professional and financial support.

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

exchange and information access. There also was considerable activity in media cooperation. 

Breaking with precedent, CULCON held its nineteenth plenary session outside Tokyo and 

Washington, in Naha, Okinawa in February, 1999, its twentieth session in Los Angeles in 2001 and 

its twenty-first in Sendai, Japan in 2003. CULCON XX provided the opportunity to review the 

work of the Digital Culture Working Group, CULCON•fs highest priority at that time. The Working 

Group•fs mission was to harness the power of the Internet to CULCON•fs mission of improving 

educational and cultural relations between the two countries. The product of this Working Group 

is Cross Currents, a web-based multimedia educational resources on US-Japan cultural and 

educational relations over the past fifty years.

With Cross Currents established, CULCON has turned its focus to a new subject at the twenty-first 

plenary session: the develop-ment of a new generation of leaders with a global perspective and the 

experiences necessary to place the US-Japan relation-ship firmly in the globalized international 

community.

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•fs web site at www.jusfc.gov, where links are available to individual project sites, or 

may consult with the Commission staff.

5. CULCON
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Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2003

October 1, 2002 – September 30, 2003

 1.

 2.

 3.

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

A. JAPANESE STUDIES IN THE UNITED 

STATES

Faculty and Curriculum Development

University of Pennsylvania – for 

support of •gThe 2003 Faculty and 

Curriculum Development Seminar on 

Japan•h

50,700

Language

Alliance of Associations of Teachers of 

Japanese – for support of •gStaff, 

Infrastructure and Project Support for 

the Alliance of Associations of Teachers 

of Japanese•h

75,000

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
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4.

 5.

 6.

 7.

8.

North American Coordinating Council 

on Japanese Library Resources – for 

support of •gInfrastructural Support for 

the North American Coordinating 

Council on Japanese Library Resources, 

for Fiscal Year 2003-2004•h

83,750 10,000,000

Research

Association for Asian Studies, Inc. – 

for support of •gNEAC/AAS Grants for 

Japanese Studies•h

67,792 3,600,000

Social Science Research Council – for 

support of •gEvaluation of SSRC•fs 

Grants for Advanced Research

on Japan•h

19,000

Stimson Center – for support of 

•gJapan•fs Nuclear Option: Security, 

Politics and Policy in the 21st

Century•h

30,000

 Exchanges

American Academy of Religion – for 

support of •gReligious Studies in the 

Japanese Context•h

4,707
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9.

 1.

 2.

 3.

Association of Teachers of Japanese – 

for support of •gThe Bridging Project 

Clearinghouse to Encourage Study 

Abroad in Japan by American 

Undergraduate Students•h

80,461

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN 

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

B. THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES 

IN JAPAN

American Political Science Association 

– for support of •gAn Open Boundaries 

Workshop: Women and Elective Office 

in Comparative Perspective•h

37,580

American Studies Association – for 

support of Year Two of •gJapan-United 

States Dialogues Across the Pacific: 

New Dimensions of American Studies•h

12,020 1,062,000

Economic Historians Association – for 

support of •gBuilding Economic 

History Bridges between Japan

and the United States•h

24,765 1,590,000

THE UNITED STATES

$411,410¥53,600,000 

Faculty and Curriculum Development
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 4.

5.

1.

2.

 3.

Organization of American Historians 

– for support of •gJAAS/OAH 

Historians’ Collaborative Project•h

20,668 2,772,000

Other 

Doshisha University – for support of 

•gWomen in American Politics•h 1,244,800

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF 

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

C. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

Outreach 

Japan Society – for support of 

•gRedefining Japan and the US-Japan 

Alliance•h

15,000

Japanese America National Museum – 

for support to send the exhibit •gFrom 

Obento to Mixed Plate: Americans of 

Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural 

Hawai’i•h to Niigata, Japan

50,000

National Association of Japan-America 

Societies – for support of •gNAJAS 

Mentorship Program Pilot Project•h

29,843

THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN 

$95,033¥6,668,800
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4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

Counterpart Exchange 

Congressional Economic Leadership 

Institute – for support of •g2003 

Congressional Staff Educational 

Exchange Program•h

85,595

George Washington University – for 

support of •gGWU US-Japan Economic 

Agenda Legislative Exchange Program•h

132,312 1,787,500

International House of Japan – for 

support of services to American 

educational, cultural and professional 

organizations

8,500,000

Pacific Forum CSIS – for support of 

•gToward a Stronger Foundation for 

United States, Japan and China 

Relations•h

19,205

Media and Dissemination 

Information Clearinghouse Japan – for 

support of •gSearchable Database for 

Japan Information Disclosure 

Recommendations•h

5,200,000

National Bureau of Asian Research – for 

support of •gJapan Forum•h 26,485
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10.

11.

 1.

Pacific Basin Institute – for support of 

•gBridge to the Rising Sun: Teachers and 

Students of the US Navy Japanese 

Language School during WWII – An Oral 

History Project•h

64,000

The University of Hawai•fi – for support 

of •gCross Currents, Phase II•h 57,500

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/

EDUCATION

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants

D. THE ARTS

Exchange Fellowships for Creative 

Artists – jointly sponsored program 

funded by the JUSFC and the US 

National Endowment for the Arts. The 

funds devoted to this program include 

$75,000 received from the National 

Endowment for the Arts. Grant funds 

for the artists in FY 2003 were 

administered in Japan for the 

Commission by the International House 

of Japan, Inc.

Artists sponsored under the exchange 

fellowships:

Thomas Beale

Iona Brown (began residency in 2005)

Bruce Gremo

Sawako Nakayasu

24,660 42,560,000*

* for FYs 

2003 and 

2004

$479,940 ¥15,487,500
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2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

Japanese Studies in the United States

The Study of the United States in Japan

Ellen Oppenheimer

American Performances/Exhibitions 

in Japan

GOH Productions – for support of 

Shizuoka Suite 30,000

Headlong Dance Theater – for support 

of Grasp 40,000

Japan-America Society of 

Pennsylvania – for support of 

Moments of Disbelief in association 

with Attack Theater

30,000

Ping Chong and Company – for 

support of Obon: Tales of Rain and 

Moonlight

50,000

Other

Arts Midwest – for support of •gUS/

Japan Cultural Trade Network•h 70,050

Hara Museum – for support of •gHara 

Museum and The Contemporary 

Museum, Honolulu (TCM) Joint 

Exhibition•h

6,786

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS

Commission Program Totals

As of September 30, 2003

$411,410 ¥53,600,000

95,033 6,668,800

$251,496¥42,560,000
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Public Affairs/Education

The Arts

Information Access Working Group

Digital Culture Working Group

Personnel

General Services Administration for 

Payroll, 

Accounting and Other Services

Office Space

Travel

Communications

Printing, Supplies, Publications

479,940 15,487,500

251,496 42,560,000

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS

CULCON Activities 

Funded by Transfer from US Department of State

$400

37,580

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES 

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2003

As of September 30, 2003

$373,000

47,839

61,298

36,924

8,572

3,027

$1,237,879¥118,316,300

$37,980
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Other

Personnel

Communications

Supplies

Other

Net Interest (Earned Basis)

Refunds on Grants

Received from the National 

Endowment for the

49,840

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2003

$113,420

200

200

200

TOTAL FOR CULCON 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

Appropriated Fund Income and Expense Statement 

Fiscal Year 2003 (10-1-02 through 9-30-03)

INCOME

$2,880,403

124,726

Arts

75,000

$580,500

$114,020
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Received from the US Department of 

State for

Commission Dollar Grants

Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants

Commission Administration

CULCON Activities

CULCON Administration

Original Appropriation, 1-1-76

Fund Balance, 9-30-02

Income or (loss)

CULCON support

152,000

TOTAL INCOME

EXPENSES

$1,237,879

1,004,610

580,500

37,980

114,020

TOTAL EXPENSES 

GAIN OR (LOSS)

Appropriated Fund Balance

Fiscal Year 2003 (10-1-02 through 9-30-03)

$18,000,000 ¥3,941,112,771

44,389,030

257,140

BALANCE, 9-30-03

$3,232,129

$2,974,989

$257,140

$44,646,170
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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•fs web site at www.jusfc.gov, where links are available to individual project sites, or 

may consult with the Commission staff.

Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 2004

October 1, 2003 – September 30, 2004

Balance, 9-30-02

Grants

Administrative Expenses

Refunds on Grants

Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 2003 (10-1-02 through 9-30-03)

$4,019

0

Contributions

1,069

0

0

BALANCE, 9-30-03

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

A. JAPANESE STUDIES IN THE UNITED 

STATES

Language

$2,950
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 2.

 3.

4.

 5.

Alliance of Associations of Teachers of 

Japanese – for support of •gStaff and 

Infrastructure Support for Alliance of 

Associations of Teachers of Japanese•h

68,130

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

North American Coordinating Council 

on Japanese Library Resources – for 

support of •gInfrastructural Support for 

the North American Coordinating 

Council on Japanese Library Resources, 

for Fiscal Year 2004-2005•h

83,750 10,000,000

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

Professional Studies

Columbia University, The Donald 

Keene Center of Japanese Culture – for 

support of •gThe Japan-US Friendship 

Commission Prize for the Translation 

of Japanese Literature•h for FY 2004 

and FY 2005

40,000

Research
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 7.

 8.

9.

10.

11.

Association for Asian Studies, Inc. – 

for support of •gNEAC/AAS Grants for 

Japanese Studies•h in FY 2004 and FY 

2005

182,734 3,600,000

Columbia Business School – for 

support of •gSolutions for the Japanese 

Economy•h

10,000

East-West Center – for support of 

•gShifting Terrain: The Domestic 

Politics of the US Military Presence in 

the Asia Pacific•h

51,037

Pacific Forum CSIS – for support of 

•gToward a Stronger Foundation for 

United States, Japan and China 

Relations•h

21,563

University of Pennsylvania – for 

support of •gGoing Too Far: 

Rationalizing Unethical Medical 

Research in Japan, Germany and the 

United States•h

10,000

Association of Teachers of Japanese – 

for support of •gThe Bridging Project 

Clearinghouse to Encourage Study 

Abroad in Japan by American 

Undergraduate Students•h

76,107

TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN 

Student Exchange

THE UNITED STATES

$550,821¥53,600,000
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 2.

 3.

 4.

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

B. THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES 

IN JAPAN

American Studies Association – for 

support of Year Three of •gJapanUnited States Dialogues Across the 

Pacific: New Dimensions of American 

Studies.•h Also, partial support for 

Year One of •gBridging the World(s)•h 

for FY 2005

24,040 1,512,000

Indiana State University – for support 

of Year One of •gThe Current State of 

African American Studies: Japanese 

and American Perspectives•h

40,000

Organization of American Historians 

– for support of •gJAAS/OAH 

Historians•f Collaborative Project•h

21,443 3,236,948

Other

Doshisha University, Graduate School 

of American Studies – for support of 

•gAmerican Studies Research Travel 

Grants for MA Students at Japanese 

Universities•h and •gUSA Election 

2004•h

3,720,000

Faculty and Curriculum Development
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5.

 1. Japan-America Student Conference – 

for support of the 56th Japan-America 

Student Conference

 2. National Association of Japan-America 

Societies – for support of •gNAJAS 

Mentorship Program Year Two•h

 3. Society for the Arts in Health Care – for 

support of •gThe Dissemination Phase 

of •eCaring for Caregivers: A 

Grassroots USA-Japan Initiative•f•h

University of the Ryukyus – for 

support of Year One of •gThe CuttingEdge Lecture and Workshop Series in 

American Studies•h

1,465,000

TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF 

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

C. PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION

Outreach 

10,000

27,346

20,000

Counterpart 

Exchanges

THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN

$85,483 ¥9,933,948
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 5.

 6.

7.

8.

9.

Congressional Economic Leadership 

Institute – for support of •gUS-Japan 

Members of Congress Education 

Exchange Program•h

65,950

The George Washington University – 

for support of •gGWU US-Japan 

Economic Agenda Legislative Exchange 

Program•h

153,787

International House of Japan – for 

support of services for American 

educational, cultural and professional 

organizations

8,500,000

US Association of Former Members of 

Congress – for support of •gThe 

Congressional Study Group on Japan•h

31,591

Media and Dissemination

Information Clearinghouse Japan – 

for support of •gSearchable Database 

for Japan Information Disclosure 

Recommendations•h

4,378,000

Media Bridges – for support of the 

documentary film The Spirit of Taiko 25,000
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10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

Mystic Aquarium Institute for 

Exploration – for support of the 

documentary film Bridging the Ocean 

Divide: How Dolphins Unite Japanese 

and American Citizens in Global 

Environmental Stewardship

20,000

National Bureau of Asian Research – 

for support of •gJapan Forum•h in FY 

2004 and FY 2005

56,420

National Japanese American 

Historical Society – for support of the 

documentary film Stolen Lives

25,000

Projectile Arts – for support of the 

documentary film Kokoyakyu: High 

School Baseball

50,200

University of Hawai•fi – for support of 

•gCross Currents, Phase III•h 57,500

University of Illinois – for support of 

the documentary film The Birth of 

Edo: Making of a Metropolis

16,100

TOTAL FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS/

EDUCATION $558,894¥12,878,000
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Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese 

Yen Grants

E. THE ARTS

Exchange Fellowships for Creative 

Artists – jointly sponsored program 

funded by the JUSFC and the US 

National Endowment for the Arts. The 

funds devoted to this program include 

$75,000 received from the National 

Endowment for the Arts. Grant funds 

for the artists in FY 2004 were 

administered in Japan for the 

Commission by the International House 

of Japan, Inc. Yen funds for FY 2004 

include funds for collaborative projects 

carried out in Japan by the Creative 

Artist Fellows.

Artists sponsored under the exchange 

fellowships:

Laure Drogoul

Adam Frelin

Rinehardt Linmark

Raymond Sandoval

17,492 22,660,000

Grants Awarded

US Dollar 

Grants

Japanese Yen 

Grants
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2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

American Performances/Exhibitions 

in Japan

Group Motion – for support of a 

collaboration with Japanese 

choreographer Kenshi Nohmi to travel 

to Dance Selection 2003 in Tokyo

13,000

New York City Ballet – for support of 

•gNew York City Ballet in Japan•h 12,250

Snappy Dance Theatre – for support to 

send the Snappy Dance Theatre to 

perform at the •gWe Love Dance 

Festival•h in Tokyo and to attend the 

Tokyo Performing Arts Market

5,000

Theatre of Yugen – for support of 

•gMoon of the Scarlet Plums

International Tour 2005•h

20,000

Other

Arts Midwest – for support of •gUS/

Japan Cultural Trade Network•h 68,800

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble – for 

support of the Noh Training Project 

10th Anniversary •gNoh Weekend•h 

Celebration

2,500

TOTAL FOR THE ARTS

Commission Program Totals

As of September 30, 2004

$139,042¥22,660,000
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Japanese Studies in the United States

The Study of the United States in Japan

Public Affairs/Education

The Arts

Global Leaders Working Group

CULCON XXI Plenary Session

Personnel

General Services Administration for 

Payroll,

$550,821 ¥53,600,000

85,483 9,933,948

558,894 12,878,000

139,042 22,660,000

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS

CULCON Activities 

Funded by Transfer from US Department of State

Cross Currents/Digital Culture 

Working Group $24,445

2,150

86,311

TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES

Administrative Expenses of the Commission in FY 2004

As of September 30, 2004

$390,823

Accounting and Other Services

52,000

$1,334,240¥99,071,948

$112,906
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Office Space

Travel

Communications

Printing, Supplies, Publications

Other

Personnel

Communications

Supplies

Other

70,332

35,747

4,614

5,197

46,450

TOTAL FOR COMMISSION 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

Administrative Expenses of CULCON in FY 2004

$124,072

200

200

200

TOTAL FOR CULCON 

ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS

Appropriated Fund Income and Expense Statement 

Fiscal Year 2004 (10-1-03 through 9-30-04)

INCOME

$605,163

$124,672
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Net Interest (Earned Basis)

Refunds on Grants

Received from the US National 

Endowment for the Arts

Received from US Department of State 

for CULCON support

Commission Dollar Grants

Dollar Equivalent of Yen Grants

Commission Administration

CULCON Activities

CULCON Administration

Original Appropriation

Fund Balance, 9-30-03

$2,229,381

73,352

75,000

237,578

TOTAL INCOME

EXPENSES

$1,334,240

902,941

605,163

112,906

124,672

TOTAL EXPENSES

GAIN OR (LOSS)

Appropriated Fund Balance

Fiscal Year 2004 (10-1-03 through 9-30-04)

$18,000,000 ¥3,941,112,771

44,646,170

$2,615,311

$3,079,922

($464,611)
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Income or (loss)

Balance, 9-30-03

Grants

Administrative Expenses

Contributions

(464,611)

BALANCE, 9-30-04

Gift Fund (non-appropriated)

Fiscal Year 2004 (10-1-03 through 9-30-04)

$2,950

0

887

7613

BALANCE, 9-30-04

$44,181,559

$9,676