Earlier this month, U.S. Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (Republican-Wisconsin) and Mark Takano (Democrat-California) traveled to Tokyo for meetings with their counterparts from Japan’s National Diet and Korea’s National Assembly. This was the second Asia visit under the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Thomas S. Foley Legislative Exchange.  The U.S. lawmakers’ visit began with an April 4 tour of Yokosuka […]

The expertise and experiences of women were at the forefront of an extended conversation during the first U.S.-Japan Women Leaders Dialogue convened by the Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) in September 2017 in Tarrytown, New York. The two-day event capped the 2017 gathering of JCIE’s Parliamentary Exchange Program. Made possible in part through a […]