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US-Japan Leadership Program Class of 2024 Announced

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. ...

January 1, 2024

USJF announces new dissertation award

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.

The United States-Japan Foundation is creating a new annual competition recognizing...

September 19, 2024

Social entrepreneur Lin Kobayashi to Join USJF Board

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...

September 11, 2024

Kohei Itoh, Keio University President, Named USJF Vice Chair

Kohei Itoh, president of Keio University, will join the United States-Japan FoundationBoard of Trustees as Vice Chair.

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

September 10, 2024

USJF-USJLP launch fundraiser to restore Seattle Peace Park statue

The United States-Japan Foundation and its US-Japan Leadership Program have launched a matching fundraiser challenge to help restore the stolen statue of a renowned Hiroshima atomic bomb victim in Seattle.

Sometime in the night between July 11th...

March 1, 2024