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
Chairman:
Dr. Richard J. Samuels* **
Ford International Professor of Political
Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vice-Chairman:
Dr.
Amy V. Heinrich* **
Director, CV Starr East Asian Library
Columbia University
Members:
The
Honorable Bruce Cole
Chairman
National Endowment for the Humanities
Dr. Richard E. Dyck**
President
TCS Japan, KK
The Honorable Dana Gioia
Chairman
National Endowment for the Arts
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. gReggeh 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
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 Hawaifi
The Honorable Sally Stroup**
Assistant
Secretary of Education for Post-
Secondary Education
US Department of Education
Staff:
Dr.
Eric J. Gangloff
Executive Director
Ms. Margaret P.
Mihori
Assistant Executive Director
Ms. Pamela L.
Fields
Assistant Executive Director, CULCON
Ms. Sylvia L.
Dandridge
Secretary
*Members of the Executive Committee
**Members of the US CULCON Panel
I
am pleased to present the Japan-US Friendship Commissionfs 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 non-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-homeh for
many scholars visiting Japan. The
gI-Househ 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 Americansf 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
The Japan-United States Friendship Commission
(gCommissionh) 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 Commissionfs 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 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 otherfs 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
Commissionfs 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 countryfs understanding of the other, both
inside and outside the academy, leading in the Commissionfs 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.
Program Highlights
1. Japanese Studies in
the United States
The Commission pursues as its fundamental mandate the
promotion of expertise on Japan throughout the American public. Its primary means of accomplishing this
goal is through maintaining the vitality of Japanese studies in institutions of
American higher education and associated professional organizations and
institutions. Thus, as has been
the case in previous years, 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 long-standing in the
future.
Another major change in the administration of the
Commissionfs 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 Commissionfs board of governors. The Commission made this decision in
light of the NEHfs 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 Hawaifi (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.
2. The Study of the United States
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.
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 Commissionfs 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 Japanfs 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 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 latterfs establishment
for the International Housefs 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 Japan-America 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.
4. The Arts
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
well-established 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
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.
5. CULCON
CULCON
(the US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange), a binational
advisory panel to the governments of the United States and of Japan, serves to
focus official and public attention in both countries on the vital cultural and
educational underpinnings of the bilateral relationship. Its origins lie in 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 Commissionfs 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, CULCONfs
highest priority at that time. The
Working Groupfs mission was to harness the power of the Internet to CULCONfs
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 Commissionfs 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 2003
October 1, 2002 - September 30,
2003
|
Grants Awarded |
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US Dollar Grants |
Japanese Yen Grants |
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A. |
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JAPANESE STUDIES IN THE UNITED
STATES |
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Faculty
and Curriculum Development |
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1. |
University
of Pennsylvania
– for support of gThe 2003 Faculty and Curriculum Development Seminar on
Japanh |
50,700 |
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Language |
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2. |
Alliance
of Associations of Teachers of Japanese – for support of gStaff, Infrastructure and
Project Support for the Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japaneseh |
75,000 |
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3. |
Stanford
University, for the Interuniversity Center for Japanese Language Studies in
Yokohama –
for support of advanced Japanese language training for American graduate
students |
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40,000,000 |
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Libraries |
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4. |
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 2003-2004h |
83,750 |
10,000,000 |
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Research |
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5. |
Association
for Asian Studies, Inc.
– for support of gNEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese Studiesh |
67,792 |
3,600,000 |
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6. |
Social
Science Research Council
– for support of gEvaluation of SSRCfs Grants for Advanced Research on Japanh |
19,000 |
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7. |
Stimson
Center – for
support of gJapanfs Nuclear Option:
Security, Politics and Policy in the 21st Centuryh |
30,000 |
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Exchanges |
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8. |
American Academy of Religion – for support of gReligious Studies in the Japanese
Contexth |
4,707 |
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9. |
Association
of Teachers of Japanese –
for support of gThe Bridging Project Clearinghouse to Encourage Study Abroad
in Japan by American Undergraduate Studentsh |
80,461 |
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TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES |
$411,410 |
¥53,600,000 |
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Grants Awarded |
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US Dollar Grants |
Japanese Yen Grants |
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B. |
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THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES
IN JAPAN Faculty
and Curriculum Development |
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1. |
American
Political Science Association –
for support of gAn Open Boundaries Workshop: Women and Elective Office in Comparative Perspectiveh |
37,580 |
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2. |
American
Studies Association
– for support of Year Two of gJapan-United States Dialogues Across the
Pacific: New Dimensions of
American Studiesh |
12,020 |
1,062,000 |
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3. |
Economic
Historians Association
– for support of gBuilding Economic History Bridges between Japan and the United Statesh |
24,765 |
1,590,000 |
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4. |
Organization
of American Historians –
for support of gJAAS/OAH Historians' Collaborative Projecth |
20,668 |
2,772,000 |
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Other
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5. |
Doshisha
University –
for support of gWomen in American Politicsh |
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1,244,800 |
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TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN |
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|
$95,033 |
¥6,668,800 |
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Grants Awarded |
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US Dollar Grants |
Japanese Yen Grants |
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C. |
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PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION |
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Outreach
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1. |
Japan
Society – for
support of gRedefining Japan and the US-Japan Allianceh |
15,000 |
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2. |
Japanese
America National Museum
– for support to send the exhibit gFrom Obento to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in
Multicultural Hawai'ih to Niigata, Japan |
50,000 |
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3. |
National
Association of Japan-America Societies – for support of gNAJAS Mentorship Program Pilot
Projecth |
29,843 |
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Counterpart
Exchange |
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4. |
Congressional
Economic Leadership Institute –
for support of g2003 Congressional Staff Educational Exchange Programh |
85,595 |
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5. |
George
Washington University –
for support of gGWU US-Japan Economic Agenda Legislative Exchange Programh |
132,312 |
1,787,500 |
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6. |
International
House of Japan –
for support of services to American educational, cultural and professional
organizations |
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8,500,000 |
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7. |
Pacific
Forum CSIS –
for support of gToward a Stronger Foundation for United States, Japan and
China Relationsh |
19,205 |
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Media
and Dissemination |
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8. |
Information
Clearinghouse Japan –
for support of gSearchable Database for Japan Information Disclosure
Recommendationsh |
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5,200,000 |
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9. |
National
Bureau of Asian Research
– for support of gJapan Forumh |
26,485 |
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10. |
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 Projecth |
64,000 |
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11. |
The
University of Hawaifi –
for support of gCross Currents, Phase IIh |
57,500 |
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TOTAL FOR PUBLIC
AFFAIRS/EDUCATION |
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$479,940 |
¥15,487,500 |
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Grants Awarded |
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US Dollar Grants |
Japanese Yen Grants |
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D. |
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THE ARTS |
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1. |
Exchange
Fellowships for Creative Artists –
jointly sponsored program funded by the JUSFC and the US National Endowment
for the Arts. The funds devoted
to this program include $75,000 received from the National Endowment for the
Arts. Grant funds for the
artists in FY 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 Ellen Oppenheimer |
24,660 |
42,560,000* * for FYs 2003 and 2004 |
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American
Performances/Exhibitions in Japan |
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2. |
GOH
Productions –
for support of Shizuoka Suite |
30,000 |
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3. |
Headlong
Dance Theater –
for support of Grasp |
40,000 |
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4. |
Japan-America
Society of Pennsylvania –
for support of Moments of Disbelief in
association with Attack Theater |
30,000 |
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5. |
Ping
Chong and Company –
for support of
Obon:
Tales of Rain and Moonlight |
50,000 |
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|
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|
|
|
|
Other |
|
|
|||||
|
|
6. |
Arts
Midwest – for
support of gUS/Japan Cultural
Trade Networkh |
70,050 |
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
|
7. |
Hara
Museum –
for support of gHara Museum and The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu (TCM) Joint
Exhibitionh |
6,786 |
|
||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||
|
TOTAL FOR THE ARTS |
|
|
$251,496 |
¥42,560,000 |
||||||
|
Commission Program Totals As of September 30, 2003 |
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
Japanese Studies in the United
States |
$411,410 |
¥53,600,000 |
||
|
|
|
The Study of the United States
in Japan |
95,033 |
6,668,800 |
||
|
|
|
Public Affairs/Education |
479,940 |
15,487,500 |
||
|
|
|
The Arts |
251,496 |
42,560,000 |
||
|
TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS |
|
|
$1,237,879 |
¥118,316,300 |
||
|
CULCON Activities Funded by Transfer from US
Department of State |
||||||
|
|
|
Information Access Working
Group |
$400 |
|
||
|
|
|
Digital Culture Working Group |
37,580 |
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES |
|
|
$37,980 |
|
||
|
Administrative Expenses of the
Commission in FY 2003 As of September 30, 2003 |
||||||||
|
|
|
Personnel |
$373,000 |
|
||||
|
|
|
General Services
Administration for Payroll, |
47,839 |
|
||||
|
|
|
Office Space |
61,298 |
|
||||
|
|
|
Travel |
36,924 |
|
||||
|
|
|
Communications |
8,572 |
|
||||
|
|
|
Printing, Supplies,
Publications |
3,027 |
|
||||
|
|
|
Other |
49,840 |
|
||||
|
TOTAL FOR COMMISSION
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS |
$580,500 |
|
||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
|
Administrative Expenses of
CULCON in FY 2003 |
||||||||
|
|
|
Personnel |
$113,420 |
|
||||
|
|
|
Communications |
200 |
|
||||
|
|
|
Supplies |
200 |
|
||||
|
|
|
Other |
200 |
|
||||
|
TOTAL FOR CULCON
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS |
|
|
$114,020 |
|
||||
|
Appropriated Fund Income and
Expense Statement
Fiscal Year 2003 (10-1-02
through 9-30-03) |
||||||
|
|
INCOME |
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
Net Interest (Earned Basis) |
$2,880,403 |
|
||
|
|
|
Refunds on Grants |
124,726 |
|
||
|
|
|
Received from the National
Endowment for the Arts |
75,000 |
|
||
|
|
|
Received from the US
Department of State for CULCON support |
152,000 |
|
||
|
|
TOTAL INCOME |
|
$3,232,129 |
|
||
|
|
EXPENSES |
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
Commission Dollar Grants |
$1,237,879 |
|
||
|
|
|
Dollar Equivalent of Yen
Grants |
1,004,610 |
|
||
|
|
|
Commission Administration |
580,500 |
|
||
|
|
|
CULCON Activities |
37,980 |
|
||
|
|
|
CULCON Administration |
114,020 |
|
||
|
|
TOTAL EXPENSES |
|
$2,974,989 |
|
||
|
|
GAIN OR (LOSS) |
$257,140 |
|
|||
|
Appropriated Fund Balance Fiscal Year 2003 (10-1-02
through 9-30-03) |
|||||
|
|
|
Original Appropriation, 1-1-76 |
$18,000,000 |
¥3,941,112,771 |
|
|
|
|
Fund Balance, 9-30-02 |
44,389,030 |
|
|
|
|
|
Income or (loss) |
257,140 |
|
|
|
|
BALANCE, 9-30-03 |
|
$44,646,170 |
|
|
|
Gift Fund (non-appropriated) Fiscal Year 2003 (10-1-02
through 9-30-03) |
|||||
|
|
|
Balance, 9-30-02 |
$4,019 |
|
|
|
|
|
Grants |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
Administrative Expenses Contributions |
1,069 0 |
|
|
|
|
|
Refunds on Grants |
0 |
|
|
|
|
BALANCE, 9-30-03 |
|
$2,950 |
|
|
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 Commissionfs 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
|
Grants Awarded |
|
|
US Dollar Grants |
Japanese Yen Grants |
|||||
|
A. |
|
|
JAPANESE STUDIES IN THE UNITED
STATES |
|
|
||||
|
|
Language |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
1. |
Alliance
of Associations of Teachers of Japanese – for support of gStaff and Infrastructure
Support for Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japaneseh |
68,130 |
|
|||||
|
|
2. |
Stanford
University, for the Interuniversity Center for Japanese Language Studies in
Yokohama –
for support of advanced Japanese language training for American graduate
students |
|
40,000,000 |
|||||
|
|
Libraries |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
3. |
North
American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources – for support of
gInfrastructural Support for the North American Coordinating Council on
Japanese Library Resources, for Fiscal Year 2004-2005h |
83,750 |
10,000,000 |
|||||
|
|
4. |
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 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
5. |
Columbia
University, The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture – for support of gThe
Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese
Literatureh for FY 2004 and FY 2005 |
40,000 |
|
|
|
|
Research |
|
|
|
|
|
|
6. |
Association
for Asian Studies, Inc.
– for support of gNEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese Studiesh in FY 2004 and FY
2005 |
182,734 |
3,600,000 |
|
|
|
7. |
Columbia
Business School
– for support of gSolutions for the Japanese Economyh |
10,000 |
|
|
|
|
8. |
East-West
Center – for
support of gShifting Terrain:
The Domestic Politics of the US Military Presence in the Asia Pacifich
|
51,037 |
|
|
|
|
9. |
Pacific
Forum CSIS –
for support of gToward a Stronger Foundation for United States, Japan and
China Relationsh |
21,563 |
|
|
|
|
10. |
University
of Pennsylvania
– for support of gGoing Too Far:
Rationalizing Unethical Medical Research in Japan, Germany and the
United Statesh |
10,000 |
|
|
|
|
Student
Exchange |
|
|
|
|
|
|
11. |
Association
of Teachers of Japanese
– for support of gThe Bridging Project Clearinghouse to Encourage Study
Abroad in Japan by American Undergraduate Studentsh |
76,107 |
|
|
|
TOTAL FOR JAPANESE STUDIES IN THE UNITED STATES |
$550,821 |
¥53,600,000 |
|||
|
Grants Awarded |
|
|
US Dollar Grants |
Japanese Yen Grants |
|||||
|
B. |
|
|
THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES
IN JAPAN Faculty
and Curriculum Development |
|
|
||||
|
|
1. |
American
Studies Association
– for support of Year Three of gJapan-United 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 |
|||||
|
|
2. |
Indiana
State University
– for support of Year One of gThe Current State of African American
Studies: Japanese and American
Perspectivesh |
40,000 |
|
|||||
|
|
3. |
Organization
of American Historians –
for support of gJAAS/OAH Historiansf Collaborative Projecth |
21,443 |
3,236,948 |
|||||
|
|
Other |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
4. |
Doshisha
University, Graduate School of American Studies – for support of gAmerican Studies
Research Travel Grants for MA Students at Japanese Universitiesh and gUSA
Election 2004h |
|
3,720,000 |
|||||
|
|
5. |
University
of the Ryukyus –
for support of Year One of gThe
Cutting-Edge Lecture and Workshop Series in American Studiesh |
|
1,465,000 |
|||||
|
TOTAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES IN JAPAN |
|
|
$85,483 |
¥9,933,948 |
|||||
|
Grants Awarded |
|
|
US Dollar Grants |
Japanese Yen Grants |
|||||
|
C. |
|
|
PUBLIC AFFAIRS/EDUCATION |
|
|
||||
|
|
Outreach
|
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
1. |
Japan-America
Student Conference – for support of the 56th Japan-America
Student Conference |
10,000 |
|
|||||
|
|
2. |
National
Association of Japan-America Societies – for support of gNAJAS Mentorship Program Year Twoh |
27,346 |
|
|||||
|
|
3. |
Society
for the Arts in Health Care – for support of gThe Dissemination Phase of eCaring for
Caregivers: A Grassroots
USA-Japan Initiativefh |
20,000 |
|
|||||
|
|
Counterpart
Exchanges |
|
|
|
|||||
|
|
4. |
Congressional
Economic Leadership Institute
– for support of gUS-Japan Members of Congress Education Exchange Programh |
65,950 |
|
|||||
|
|
5. |
The
George Washington University
– for support of gGWU US-Japan Economic Agenda Legislative Exchange Programh |
153,787 |
|
|||||
|
|
6. |
International
House of Japan
– for support of services for American educational, cultural and professional
organizations |
|
8,500,000 |
|||||
|
|
7. |
US
Association of Former Members of Congress – for support of gThe Congressional Study Group
on Japanh |
31,591 |
|
|||||
|
|
Media
and Dissemination |
|
|
|||
|
|
8. |
Information
Clearinghouse Japan –
for support of gSearchable Database for Japan Information Disclosure
Recommendationsh |
|
4,378,000 |
||
|
|
9. |
Media
Bridges – for
support of the documentary film The
Spirit of Taiko |
25,000 |
|
||
|
|
10. |
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 |
|
||
|
|
11. |
National
Bureau of Asian Research
– for support of gJapan Forumh in FY 2004 and FY 2005 |
56,420 |
|
||
|
|
12. |
National
Japanese American Historical Society
– for support of the documentary film Stolen
Lives |
25,000 |
|
||
|
|
13. |
Projectile
Arts – for
support of the documentary film Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball |
50,200 |
|
||
|
|
14. |
University
of Hawaifi –
for support of gCross Currents, Phase IIIh |
57,500 |
|
||
|
|
15. |
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 |
||
|
Grants Awarded |
|
|
US Dollar Grants |
Japanese Yen Grants |
||||
|
E. |
|
|
THE ARTS |
|
|
|||
|
|
1. |
Exchange
Fellowships for Creative Artists
– jointly sponsored program funded by the JUSFC and the US National Endowment
for the Arts. The funds devoted
to this program include $75,000 received from the National Endowment for the
Arts. Grant funds for 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 |
||||
|
|
|
|
American
Performances/Exhibitions in Japan |
|
|
|||
|
|
2. |
Group
Motion – for
support of a collaboration with Japanese choreographer Kenshi Nohmi to travel
to Dance Selection 2003 in Tokyo |
13,000 |
|
||||
|
|
3. |
New
York City Ballet –
for support of gNew York City Ballet in Japanh |
12,250 |
|
||||
|
|
4. |
Snappy
Dance Theatre –
for support to send the Snappy Dance Theatre to perform at the gWe Love Dance
Festivalh in Tokyo and to attend the Tokyo Performing Arts Market |
5,000 |
|
||||
|
|
5. |
Theatre
of Yugen –
for support of gMoon of the Scarlet
Plums International Tour 2005h |
20,000 |
|
||||
|
|
|
|
Other |
|
|
|||
|
|
6. |
Arts
Midwest – for
support of gUS/Japan Cultural Trade Networkh |
68,800 |
|
||||
|
|
7. |
Bloomsburg
Theatre Ensemble –
for support of the Noh Training Project 10th Anniversary gNoh
Weekendh Celebration |
2,500 |
|
||||
|
TOTAL FOR THE ARTS |
|
|
$139,042 |
¥22,660,000 |
||||
|
Commission Program Totals As of September 30, 2004 |
|
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
Japanese Studies in the United
States |
$550,821 |
¥53,600,000 |
||
|
|
|
The Study of the United States
in Japan |
85,483 |
9,933,948 |
||
|
|
|
Public Affairs/Education |
558,894 |
12,878,000 |
||
|
|
|
The Arts |
139,042 |
22,660,000 |
||
|
TOTAL FOR COMMISSION PROGRAMS |
|
|
$1,334,240 |
¥99,071,948 |
||
|
CULCON Activities Funded by Transfer from US
Department of State |
||||||
|
|
|
Cross
Currents/Digital
Culture Working Group |
$24,445 |
|
||
|
|
|
Global Leaders Working Group |
2,150 |
|
||
|
|
|
CULCON XXI Plenary Session |
86,311 |
|
||
|
TOTAL FOR CULCON ACTIVITIES |
|
|
$112,906 |
|
||
|
Administrative Expenses of the
Commission in FY 2004 As of September 30, 2004 |
||||
|
|
|
Personnel |
$390,823 |
|
|
|
|
General Services
Administration for Payroll, Accounting and Other Services |
52,000 |
|
|
|
|
Office Space |
70,332 |
|
|
|
|
Travel |
35,747 |
|
|
|
|
Communications |
4,614 |
|
|
|
|
Printing, Supplies, Publications |
5,197 |
|
|
|
|
Other |
46,450 |
|
|
TOTAL FOR COMMISSION
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS |
$605,163 |
|
||
|
|
||||
|
Administrative Expenses of
CULCON in FY 2004 |
||||||
|
|
|
Personnel |
$124,072 |
|
||
|
|
|
Communications |
200 |
|
||
|
|
|
Supplies |
200 |
|
||
|
|
|
Other |
200 |
|
||
|
TOTAL FOR CULCON
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS |
|
|
$124,672 |
|
||
|
Appropriated Fund Income and
Expense Statement Fiscal Year 2004 (10-1-03
through 9-30-04) |
||||||
|
|
INCOME |
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
Net Interest (Earned Basis) |
$2,229,381 |
|
||
|
|
|
Refunds on Grants |
73,352 |
|
||
|
|
|
Received from the US National
Endowment for the Arts |
75,000 |
|
||
|
|
|
Received from US Department of
State for CULCON support |
237,578 |
|
||
|
|
TOTAL INCOME |
|
$2,615,311 |
|
||
|
|
EXPENSES |
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
Commission Dollar Grants |
$1,334,240 |
|
||
|
|
|
Dollar Equivalent of Yen
Grants |
902,941 |
|
||
|
|
|
Commission Administration |
605,163 |
|
||
|
|
|
CULCON Activities |
112,906 |
|
||
|
|
|
CULCON Administration |
124,672 |
|
||
|
|
TOTAL EXPENSES |
|
$3,079,922 |
|
||
|
|
GAIN OR (LOSS) |
|
($464,611) |
|
||
|
Appropriated Fund Balance Fiscal Year 2004 (10-1-03
through 9-30-04) |
|||||
|
|
|
Original Appropriation |
$18,000,000 |
¥3,941,112,771 |
|
|
|
|
Fund Balance, 9-30-03 |
44,646,170 |
|
|
|
|
|
Income or (loss) |
(464,611) |
|
|
|
|
BALANCE, 9-30-04 |
|
$44,181,559 |
|
|
|
Gift Fund (non-appropriated) Fiscal Year 2004 (10-1-03 through
9-30-04) |
|||||
|
|
|
Balance, 9-30-03 |
$2,950 |
|
|
|
|
|
Grants |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
Administrative Expenses |
887 |
|
|
|
|
|
Contributions |
7613 |
|
|
|
|
BALANCE, 9-30-04 |
|
$9,676 |
|
|