Winners of 2021 Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation Announced
The winners of the 2021 Healthy Aging Prize for Asian Innovation have been announced!
WEBINAR | Why Oral Health Matters for an Aging Asia
JCIE and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) co-hosted a webinar on the importance of oral health when it comes to healthy longevity.
2021 AHWIN Researchers Virtual Roundtable
JCIE and the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) convened a meeting of about three dozen researchers to share information about their work with one another, compare notes, and discuss the implications of their findings to date.
JCIE/USA Senior Fellow James Gannon Receives Commendation
JCIE/USA is delighted to share the news that our Senior Fellow and former Executive Director, Jim Gannon, has received the Consul General’s Commendation from H.E. Ambassador Kanji Yamanouchi. The commendation recognized Jim’s contributions to the field of US-Japan exchange, to philanthropic initiatives including in response to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, and […]
We Need to Do Better–Perspectives on the Global Response to COVID-19: An Interview with Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez
This interview with JCIE/USA Board Member and Columbia University Medical Center Professor Dr. Ariel Pablos-Méndez highlights responses to the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, and where we should go from here.
Event Report | Japan-US Dialogue on Harnessing New Technologies to Battle COVID-19
Report on an online dialogue featuring Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, the recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This was designed to share lessons from Japan’s relatively successful COVID-19 response and explore possible areas of US-Japan collaboration in battling the epidemic.
Global Health Needs US-Japan Partnership
Jim Gannon, Executive Director of JCIE/USA, calls for greater US-Japan partnership on pandemic response and global health in this piece for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Asia Unbound blog, pointing out key areas where cooperation is needed.
US-Japan Cooperation on COVID-19 with James Gannon
Jim Gannon, Executive Director of JCIE/USA, discusses Japan’s COVID-19 response and the expanding potential of the US-Japan cooperation in this episode of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center’s “Asia in Washington” podcast.
Japan’s Friendship with the US Remains Unshakable
This opinion piece was written by Ambassador Koji Tomita, who references a 2016 JCIE survey on US givings in the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami disaster response.
The Time Has Come for a COVID-19 Marshall Plan
“In his announcement of COVID-19 vaccine donations, President Biden evoked World War II by vowing that the U.S. will be the world’s “arsenal of vaccines.” It is time to instead harken back to the immediate postwar period, specifically to the Marshall Plan.” In this opinion piece published in The Hill James Gannon, Senior Fellow at […]