April 2009
Education
Japan Society of Boston
To support a program to strengthen ties between Kyoto and Boston by bringing together little-league baseball players from both cities. Boston, MA.. $30,000
Midori Foundation (Midori & Friends)
To support Midori and Friendsf music education programs in underprivileged elementary schools in the New York City area. New York, NY.. $30,000
Seattle Public Schools
To support the next phase of development of a model Kindergarten through 12th grade Japanese immersion program for the Seattle Public Schools as part of their international school initiative. Seattle, WA.. $49,051
September 11th Widows and Families Association (Tribute WTC Visitor Center)
To support the development of materials to teach young people about Sadako Sasaki in the context of September 11th, focusing on how they can build from an emotional and intellectual response to these stories to taking action in their world. New York, NY.. $10,000
Michigan State University
To support a three-week environmental studies exchange program between high school science students and teachers in the state of Michigan and Shiga prefecture. East Lansing, MI.. $50,674.80
Gitter-Yelen Foundation
To support a series of Japanese art education workshops in New Orleans. New Orleans, LA.. $20,000
Murray State University
To partially support the salary for the first Japanese language teacher in the local public schools in western Kentucky. Murray, KY.. $3,500
The Association of Teachers of Japanese
To support a new on-line course for pre-college non-native Japanese language teachers in the US that focuses on advanced Japanese reading skills. Boulder, CO. $3,000
Primary Source
To support the Primary Source Japan Program. Watertown, MA. $30,000
Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
To support the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation’s ongoing programs and activities and in honor of Ambassador Walter Mondale, recipient of the United States-Japan Foundation’s 2008 Distinguished Service Award. Washington, DC. $10,000
Children’s Museum (Boston)
To support critical repairs in the Kyo no Machiya, as part of the 50th anniversary of the Kyoto-Boston Sister City relationship. Boston, MA. $5,000
Michigan State University
To support additional airfare charges for MSU’s three-week environmental studies exchange program between high school science students and teachers in the state of Michigan and Shiga prefecture. East Lansing, MI. $15,000
Communication and Public Opinion
Class Acts Arts
To support the creation of a feature length documentary chronicling the glifeh of pictures drawn by children of Hiroshima, Japan in 1947 in gratitude to a church in Washington, DC for their donations of art supplies. Silver Spring, MD.. $80,000
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
To support an exhibition titled, The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989. New York, NY. $50,000
US-Japan Policy Studies
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior
To support a comparative study of the formation of historical memory of the Sino-Japanese and Pacific wars in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States with the aim of promoting understanding and reconciliation. Stanford, CA.. $52,616
Japan Center for International Exchange
To support a research and dialogue initiative to formulate a new action-oriented strategy for strengthening US-Japan policy dialogue and discussion. New York, NY.. $30,963
Trustees of Princeton University
To support a project that examines the importance of national identities in Japanfs relations with its neighbors and the widening regional context in which U.S.-Japan relations are becoming situated. Princeton, NJ. $25,000
Japan Center for International Exchange
To support JCIE’s project on reinvigorating US-Japan policy dialogue and discussion in a time of political change. New York, NY. $15,000