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Current Program Guidelines

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• History and Organization
• Programs
  • Japanese Studies in the United States
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Projects Not Considered

The Commission will not provide direct financial support for the following activities or projects:

• Language and area studies K through 12
• Pre-collegiate exchanges
• Individual scholarships or fellowships, with the exception of the Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship Program
• University chairs or endowment funds
• Research, teaching, publications and translations in mathematics, medicine and the natural sciences. Scientific exchanges with Japan are conducted by the National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230.
• Building construction, design or maintenance costs
• Touring of symphony and other strictly musical groups or solo performing artists. In the field of music, only those projects that are interdisciplinary artistic collaborations will be considered.
• Amateur and university performing arts groups
• Support for American museums for regular staff, acquisition of objects, or cataloging of existing collections
• Japanese performing arts groups and exhibitions traveling to the United States