JCIE Celebrates 50th Anniversary
JCIE CELEBRATES 50th ANNIVERSARY In 2020, JCIE celebrates our 50th anniversary. Our story began when JCIE’s founder, Tadashi Yamamoto, began organizing exchanges of schoolteachers, legislators, and various experts between the United States and Japan in the mid-1960s. Those efforts led to the establishment of the Japan Center for International Exchange in 1970, and we quickly expanded […]
FGFJ x GLOBE+ Interview Series | From Hopelessness to Hopefulness—Three Decades of Leading the Fight against HIV/AIDS
This installment of the “Infectious Diseases Without Borders: Our Story” features Ambassador Mark Dybul, who decided to pursue a medical career to fight HIV/AIDS and ended up leading the American effort —and later the global effort—to battle the disease. This interview series is a collaboration between the Friends of the Global Fund Japan (FGFJ) and Asahi GLOBE+.
FGFJ x GLOBE+ Interview Series | Surviving TB & COVID – What a South African Doctor Has to Tell the World
This interview features Zolelwa Sifumba, a young medical doctor from South Africa who has survived MDR-TB and COVID-19. In it, she shares more about her experiences with communicable diseases and her journey from patient to doctor and advocate for healthcare workers.
FGFJ x GLOBE+ Interview Series | A Transgender Woman and HIV Activist Who Realized Her Dreams
This interview tells the story of Erika Castellanos, a transgender woman living with HIV who has struggled for survival and acceptance, and now works as an advocate for trans, gender diverse and intersex people on the international stage. It features her life, learning, and message to all of us in the COVID age.
UK-Japan 21st Century Group Webinar| The Future Direction of Japan Under Prime Minister Suga
The UK-Japan 21st Century Group held its first online webinar to discuss Japan’s future under Prime Minister Suga.
UK-Japan 21st Century Group | 37th Conference
The 37th annual meeting of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group was held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the participation of 20 members from each country, who held discussions on the latest political and economic developments in Japan and the United Kingdom.
The GFF and Prospects for Maternal and Child Health Services in Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis
The Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE) organized a special roundtable in conjunction with International Universal Health Coverage Day (on December 12) to highlight the work of the Global Financing Facility (GFF) in advancing universal health care (UHC) and how developments such as the COVID-19 pandemic are affecting the push for UHC and the GFF’s work.
In Japan, these Single Moms and Shrinking Cities are Trying a New Start – Together
Susie Armitage writes on the relationship between Japan’s single moms, who face many challenges in Japan’s work culture, and the underpopulated areas that are developing programs to promote relocation.
Diet Women’s Study Group | 7th Meeting
Yoko Takeda, Chief Economist and General Manager, Research Center for Policy and Economy, Mitsubishi Research Institute, met with the Diet Women’s Study Group to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy and Japan’s post-pandemic future.
JCIE Publications | JCIE at 50—Pioneering US-Japan Political Exchange
This report, compiled as part of JCIE’s commemoration of its 50th anniversary, is intended to serve as a record of US-Japan political and parliamentary exchange and offer JCIE’s perspective on how that exchange has impacted US-Japan relations.