Arts
- Dance Documents Japan Committee – Touch, Contact, Bones: Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson Japan Workshop, $40,000
- Electronic Arts Intermix – Past as a New Present: Japanese and American Video Art from the 1960s and ’70s, $12,000
- International House of Japan – Creative Artists Exchange Fellowship Program, ¥21,030,000; $30,000
- International WOW Company – Residency and Performances with Masataka Matsuda/Marebito no kai in Kyoto, Japan, 2009, $30,000
Japanese Studies
- Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japanese – Infrastructure Support for the Alliance of Associations of Teachers of Japanese, $42,500
- Association of Teachers of Japanese – The Bridging Project Clearinghouse to Encourage Study Abroad by American Undergraduate Students, $44,877
- Columbia University, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture– The Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for Translation of Japanese Literature, $22,057
- Interuniversity Center (IUC) – Operating Expenses for the Center for 2008-2009, ¥40,000,000
- JUSFC/NEH – Fellowship Program for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan, $150,000
- North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources – Infrastructural Support for the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources, $88,414, ¥9,000,000
- Northeast Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies (NEAC/AAS) – NEAC/AAS Grants for Japanese Studies, $110,000
- Pacific Forum CSIS – US-Japan-ROK-China Relations for the 21st Century, $17,000
Public Affairs and Education
- The Tides Center/ Center for Digital TV and the World – Tokyo Times (Japan Stories PART I), $15,000
- George Washington University – US-Japan Economic Agenda Legislative Exchange Program, $115,000
- National Bureau of Asian Research – Japan-US Discussion Forum, $15,000
- United States Association of Former Members of Congress – The Congressional Study Group on Japan, $15,000
- University of Hawai’i – Cross Currents– Maintenance, Support, and Promotion of Cross Currents Website, $15,732
Study of the United States
- American Studies Association – Change and Power: Comparative US-Japan Perspectives, $19,436
- Organization of American Historians – OAH/JAAS Historians’ Collaborative Project, $39,161

