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.
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 cost-effective 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
Chairman
January, 1997
The Japan-United States Friendship Commission, 1995-1996
Chairman:
Dr. Richard J. Wood* **
Dean
Yale Divinity School
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
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
Head Office:
1120 Vermont Avenue, NW, Suite 925
Washington, DC 20005
Telephone: (202) 275-7712
Facsimile: (202) 275-7413
e-mail: jusfc@compuserve.com
or jusfc@dgs.dgsys.com
Homepage: www2.dgsys.com/~jusfc/commissn/commissn.html
Japan Liaison Office:
c/o Program Office
International House of Japan, Inc.
11-16, Roppongi 5-chome
Minato-ku, Tokyo 106
Japan
Tel. (03) 3470-4611
*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 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
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 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 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.
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 Japan-America 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 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 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 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 in Fiscal Year 1995
October 1, 1994 - September 30, 1995
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
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
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
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
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
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"
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 US-
Japan 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"
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
FUND BALANCE, 9-30-95
Portfolio ¥3,538,346,7
Cash on Hand, 9-30-95 24 ¥
2,510,110
NOTE: In the listings below, in many cases Commission support met only partial costs of the total project.
Grants Awarded in Fiscal Year 1996
October 1, 1995 - September 30, 1996
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
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
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
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
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
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"
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
5
EXPENSES
Grants ¥106,717,00
0
Administration 4,177,052
Transfer to Dollar Account 7,581,150
Fees 712,658
TOTAL EXPENSE ¥119,187,86
0
GAIN OR (LOSS) (¥1,268,725
)
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