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Since 2000, the US-Japan Leadership Program (USJLP) has been devoted to creating lifelong friendship, continuous dialogue, and greater shared understanding through a next-gen network of both rising and established thought-leaders, innovators and...

The United States-Japan Foundation is creating a new annual competition recognizing the best social sciences doctoral dissertation on Japan produced in the U.S.

A committee of distinguished Japan specialists will review dissertations nominated by...

Renowned Japanese social entrepreneur Lin Kobayashi will join the United States-Japan Foundation Board of Trustees in January.

Kobayashi is best known as the co-founder of ISAK, the International School of Asia Karuizawa, which was established in...

He will replace in that position Takeshi Niinami, CEO of Suntory Holdings Ltd. and Chairman of the Keizai Doyukai association of...

Santa J. Ono, president of the University of Michigan, has joined the United States-Japan Foundation Board of Trustees.Ono, an accomplished medical researcher and leader in higher education across North America, is a second-generation Japanese...

Arfiya Eri, a member of Japan’s House of Representatives, has joined the United States-Japan Foundation Board of Trustees.

Eri’s historic candidacy in the April 2023 parliamentary election drew worldwide attention. A Japanese national of Uyghur and...