JCIE Publications | Challenges and Opportunities in US-Japan Relations

This report focuses on the Japan-US relationship in a changing international environment.

JCIE Publications | Supplemental Report of the Japan–United States Economic Relations Group

This supplemental report discusses the comments of the US and Japanese governments and the private sectors to the January 1981 report, reviews some important issues in the two countries’ economic relationship, and makes additional recommendations.

JCIE Publications | Japan-United States Economic Relations Group/Background Papers

This volume is a compilation of background papers prepared for the Japan–US Economic Relations Group, which made two reports to the president of the United States and the prime minister of Japan on factors affecting the two countries’ long-term bilateral economic relationship.

JCIE Publications | Philanthropy in Japan

This publication is a revised edition of a survey report from a 1975 survey conducted by JCIE as part of its International Exchange Project on Private Philanthropy and provided basic background information on philanthropy and philanthropic organization in Japan.

2022 Japanese Young Political Leaders Virtual Exchange

The 2022 US-Japan Young Political Leaders Exchange Program was held virtually, allowing the 31st Japanese delegation to explore US-Japanese relations and build global relationships.

LBO Focus: Japan’s Aging Population Burnishes Health Deals

The Japanese government realizes the country lacks a sufficient capacity of nursing homes and senior-care facilities. For the past five years, the government has worked to incentivize the private sector to take on the task of building nursing homes and other such health-care facilities. To attract this kind of development, the government has provided subsidies for the construction costs of new facilities as well as discounts on property taxes.

Japan Exasperated by Trump’s Trade Policies

As US farmers suffer under high tariffs, Japanese officials are in no rush to cut a new trade deal with the United States.

Why This Hiroshima Survivor Dedicated His Life to Searching for the Families of 12 American POWs

A moving portrait by our 2018 Journalism Fellow Ibby Caputo of Shigeaki Mori, a man who survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima and made it his life’s mission to seek recognition for the 12 American POWs who lost their lives in the attack.

Nation Marks Second Year Since Calamity

From Japan Times
Memorial and prayer services were held across Japan on Monday, which marked the second anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Tohoku’s coastline and left some 19,000 people dead or missing amid the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.

Strong ASEAN-Japan Ties Important to Global Stability

Partnership between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Japan must be enhanced far beyond economic means in anticipation of the ASEAN Community, set to be effective in 2015, when the region is expected to play a more determinant role in global security, say analysts.