Month: May 2012

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JUSFC Announces New Mission Statement and Updated Funding Priorities

Mission Statement: The Japan-US Friendship Commission is an independent federal agency established by Congress in 1975 to strengthen the US-Japan relationship through educational, cultural, and intellectual exchange.  Its mission is to support reciprocal people-to-people understanding, and promote partnerships that advance common interests between Japan and the United States. JUSFC Values Engage the next generation of US-Japan […]

Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature Awarded

JUSFC congratulates the 2012 winners of The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.  During an award ceremony at the Donald Keene Center for Japanese Studies at Columbia University, Dr. Matthew Fraleigh of Brandeis University received the prize for classical literature for his annotated translations of New Chronicles of Yanagibashi and Diary […]