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.
US-Japan Global Health Dialogue
JCIE gathers policy experts and senior officials from various US and Japanese government agencies for a series of high-level dialogues to identify areas where the two countries can deepen cooperation on global health. Meetings have been co-organized with the UN Foundation, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
Tadashi Yamamoto Memorial Seminar
Throughout his career, JCIE’s founder Tadashi Yamamoto made a special effort to engage both senior and emerging leaders from politics, government, civil society, and other walks of life in the type of substantive policy dialogue that builds the foundations for greater international cooperation.
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.
US-Japan Parliamentary Exchange
The US-Japan Parliamentary Exchange Program brings members of the US Congress and Japanese Diet to one another’s countries for a series of intensive dialogues with leaders from a broad range of fields. Participants in the US-Japan Parliamentary Exchange Program have risen to influential positions in their respective countries with an enhanced understanding of the US-Japan relationship.
US-Japan Young Political Leaders Exchange
In 1973, JCIE and the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL) jointly launched the US-Japan Young Political Leaders Exchange Program, an annual bilateral exchange program designed to expose young leaders of each country to the politics and policymaking processes of the other country and to enhance their understanding of US-Japan relations.
JCIE/USA Roundtables & Special Events
JCIE/USA holds occasional roundtables, offering an opportunity for visiting scholars and experts to engage in initimate discussions with a select group of relevant stakeholders from the New York area. It also convenes roundtables that target the US-Japan Journalism Fellows and holds additional events for the business community.
A50 Caravan
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the signing of the San Francisco Peace Treaty, which formally brought World War II to a close, JCIE’s offices in Tokyo and New York, along with the National Association of Japan-America Societies (NAJAS) in Washington DC, organized an A50 Caravan. The Caravan featured 15 teams, each consisting of three Japanese participants who represented different generations and a broad spectrum of professions and backgrounds.
Revitalizing Regional Exchanges between the United States and Japan: Examples of Sister-City Exchanges
With the goal of revitalizing sister-city exchanges between Japan and the United States, this project sought to identify ways to overcome the issues that have led to the stagnation of many of these exchanges and to explore appropriate models for sister-city exchange in the twenty-first century.
An Enhanced Agenda for US-Japan Partnership
JCIE and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership undertook a study to explore how bilateral cooperation can be deepened in order to face common challenges, strengthen regional and global stability and prosperity, and, ultimately, make the US-Japan alliance more robust and versatile in light of wide-ranging developments that had begun to reshape Asia at the start of the 20th century.