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Kohei Itoh, Keio University President, Named USJF Vice Chair
Kohei Itoh, president of Keio University, will join the United States-Japan Foundation Board 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

Santa J. Ono, University of Michigan President, Joins USJF Board
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 ...
July 1, 2024

Japanese Rep. Arfiya Eri joins United States-Japan Foundation Board
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 ...
July 1, 2024

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. and ...
May 6, 2024

United States-Japan Foundation Announces Latest Grants
TOKYO — The United States Foundation announced its latest round of grants awarded in late 2023 and early 2024. The projects funded cover a wide variety of themes, including support for: news coverage of Japan’s cutting-edge response to shared ...
March 16, 2024

USJF Launches Matching Fund Campaign for Japanese Earthquake Relief
January 8, 2024 The United States-Japan Foundation is running a matching donation campaign to raise funds for recovery and relief efforts in central Japan, following the devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake there on New Year’s Day. You can make a ...
March 14, 2024