US Congressional Staff Exchange
JCIE established the US Congressional Staff Exchange Program in 1982 in recognition of the vital role Congressional staff play in policymaking. The one-week program provides senior Congressional staffers with the opportunity to meet Japanese legislators and policymakers and give them a sense of the Japanese policymaking process as well as political, economic, and societal trends.
Trilateral Commission
Founded in 1973, the Trilateral Commission is a nongovernmental forum of leading private citizens from Europe, North America, and Japan (now including all of Asia Pacific) that aims to promote mutual understanding and closer cooperation on common problems facing these three major democratic, industrialized regions of the world.
JCIE Publications | Presence and Perceptions: The Underpinnings of ASEAN-Japan Relations
This book analyzes the Japanese presence and local perceptions of Japan in four Southeast Asian nations and Japanese views of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
JCIE Publications | The Role of Philanthropy in International Cooperation
This report summarizes many topics addressed at JCIE’s 15th Anniversary International Symposium, including different types of corporate giving in Japan, unfavorable tax codes, and American corporate donors and foundations.
JCIE Publications | Political and Security Cooperation: A New Dimension in ASEAN-Japan Relations?
This book compiles updated versions of papers submitted to the ASEAN-Japan Dialogue Conference in 1984; authors analyze Japan’s expanding role in Southeast Asia in the wake of an American withdrawal from the region that began with the US defeat in the Vietnam War.
JCIE Publications | The Japanese Diet and the US Congress
This book, a comparative study of legislative systems, explains the histories and structures of the bicameral legislatures; in subsequent chapters, it discusses election procedures, financial policies, and power distribution.
JCIE Publications | Survey Report on Binational and Other Research on Economic Themes of Interest to Japan and the United States (JCIE Research Reports: No. 1)
This brief report, written for the 11th US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Education Interchange held in June 1982, surveys and summarizes joint US-Japan policy research carried out at research institutions and universities from 1979 to mid-1982.”
JCIE Publications | Korea-Japan Relations in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities
This book contains essay presented to the 4th Korea-Japan Intellectual Exchange Conference, which coincided with a period of change in both Korea and Japan–in Korea, the inauguration of a new government was seen as a possible harbinger of rapprochement following tense bilateral strains.
JCIE Publications | Selected Bibliography: Studies of Japanese-US Relations
This bibliography is a provisional list of publications on Japan-US relations. Priority was given in compiling the list to material relevant to the research activities of the Japan-US Economic Relations Group.
Facilitating Philanthropy Program
The US-Japan Philanthropy Initiative handles charitable donations from US-based individuals and corporations in the manner of a donor-advised fund, accepting recommendations about organizations the donor prefers to support, then conducting due diligence to decide whether to make a grant to the suggested organization or others that advance the aims of the donation.
