JCIE’s Team on Healthy Aging in Asia at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2026

JCIE’s team working on healthy aging in Asia co-hosted side meetings and events at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) 2026, which had as its theme “Demographic Transition.” JCIE’s events included a special launch session for the 5th Round of the Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation (HAPI).

2025 Briefing Series | Japan’s Global Leadership in a New Era of US-Japan Relations

JCIE USA's 50th anniversary logo

2025 marked a new era in US-Japan relations under political leadership transitions in both countries. In this context, JCIE USA organized a series of three online discussions to explore Japan’s domestic political developments and its engagement in key regions of the world to assess Japan’s standing as a global leader as well as the implications for US-Japan relations.

OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS | 5th Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation

Now accepting applications for the Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation (HAPI), which seeks to recognize and amplify innovative policies, programs, services, and products that address these and many other challenges facing aging societies.

Opening for Paid Internship at JCIE USA

JCIE/USA, based in New York, is seeking a full-time program officer to work closely with the executive director and other staff on general organizational operations and a range of program activities.

Japan-Korea Forum | 13th Meeting

Forty-one political leaders, business executives, scholars, and public intellectuals gathered from August 29 to 31 for the 13th Japan-Korea Forum on Jeju Island, Korea, to discuss political trends in Japan and Korea, bilateral history issues, Korea-Japan cooperation on East Asia community building, and measures to promote greater exchange between the two countries.

Japan-US Dialogue | Harnessing New Technologies to Battle COVID-19

The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE/USA) and the Consulate General of Japan in New York co-hosted a special webinar featuring Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, the recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The event started with special remarks from Hon. Yasutoshi Nishimura, the Minister of State in charge of Japan’s COVID-19 response. Dr. Yamanaka […]

Second Sunnylands Initiative Retreat Hosted in Japan

Responding to the urgent need to address the threats to democracy in the Indo-Pacific region and around the world, JCIE convened the second meeting of the Sunnylands Initiative on Enhancing Democratic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific (Sunnylands Initiative) on August 1-3, 2022 in Tokyo and Odawara, Japan

Interviews from the Sunnylands Initiative Retreat

At the second meeting of the Sunnylands Initiative on Enhancing Democratic Partnership in the Indo-Pacific region in Japan, select participants shared their thoughts on key issues concerning democracy in the region in a series of short video clips.

Defending Universal Values in the Indo-Pacific—The Roles of Japan and the G7 Summit

JCIE hosted a public symposium in the lead up to Japan hosting the G7 Summit in Hiroshima to deepen discussions on the role Japan should fulfill in defending universal values and a rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific

Global Health Diet Roundtable | Vaccine Diplomacy and Japan: What Is Needed Now?

On April 5, JCIE hosted its 6th Global Health Diet Roundtable, which was held online and attended by seven Diet members across multiple parties. Speakers discussed the current status of COVID-19 vaccine development around the world, background information on the vaccine development delays in Japan, and issues in the global COVID-19 response that Japan should address.