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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...

The United States-Japan Foundation is proud to announce the Class of 2024 Delegates to the US-Japan Leadership Program (USJLP), a next-gen network of both rising and established thought-leaders, innovators, and boundary-breakers in the U.S. and...

TOKYO — The United States-Japan Foundation donated $15,000 to the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation to support its “Profile in Courage” Award ceremony jointly honoring Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol...

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...

WASHINGTON — The United States-Japan Foundation (USJF) congratulates Arfiya Eri, an alumna of the organization’s US-Japan Leadership Program (USJLP), on her historic election Sunday to Japan’s parliament.

Eri is the first person with Uyghur heritage...