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Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program

This exchange program allows a select group of U.S. federal employees to develop an in-depth understanding of Japan, learn how its government works, and establish relationships with their counterparts in the government of Japan as well as in the business, professional and academic communities. more

 

Application for the Mansfield Fellowship: April 1, 2010

 

Attend one of the three remaining information sessions

 

Five federal employees awarded Mansfield Fellowships

 

Download our 2009/2010 Fellowship Brochure

 

Capitol Hill Area Policy Dialogues

The CAP program gives a group of world-class corporations top access to policymakers and Asia experts as well as vital information on contemporary economic security and trade issues. more

“Moving U.S.-China Relations to a New Stage through Cooperation on Climate Change ”

On March 11, 2009, the Mansfield Foundation hosted a discussion with the authors of “Overcoming Obstacles to U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change.”  China and climate change experts Kenneth Lieberthal (University of Michigan professor, Brookings Institution Visiting Fellow) and David Sandalow (Brookings Institution Senior Fellow) discussed their recommendations for U.S.-China cooperation on climate change with congressional staff, business leaders, and policy experts.

 

CAP Membership

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Mansfield Internships

Learn more about our internships.

 

Mansfield Foundation Visiting Fellows

Learn more about our visiting fellows program 

 

 

 

 

Mansfield Foundation Congratulates “U.S.-Japan Network for the Future” Participants

 

The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation welcomed fifteen emerging Japan specialists in Washington January 6-8 for the first meeting of the “U.S.-Japan Network for the Future.”  This new program, launched in collaboration with the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, is aimed at identifying and supporting the next generation of American public policy intellectuals interested in Japan. 

 

The following scholars were selected to participate in the program:

  • Daniel Aldrich, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Purdue University

  • James Gannon, Executive Director, Japan Center for International Exchange

  • Mary Alice Haddad, Assistant Professor of Government, Wesleyan University

  • Ken Haig, Advanced Research Fellow, Harvard University

  • Llewelyn Hughes, Assistant Professor, George Washington University

  • Kathryn Ibata-Arens, Associate Professor, DePaul University

  • Jennifer Lind, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

  • Phillip Lipscy, Assistant Professor, Stanford University

  • Mark Manyin, Specialist in Asian Affairs, Congressional Research Service

  • Matthew Marr, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Florida International University

  • Sherry Martin, Assistant Professor of Government and the Program in Feminist, Gender and Sexual Studies, Cornell University

  • Robert Pekkanen, Associate Professor, University of Washington

  • Kaoru Shimizu, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

  • Mireya Solis, Associate Professor, American University

  • Nicholas Szechenyi, Deputy Director and Fellow, Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies  

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Mansfield Fellows Share Expertise at GRIPS Seminar Series

 

The Mansfield Foundation’s joint seminar series with the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo provides opportunities for Mansfield Fellows to share their expertise with students, policymakers, business leaders and others during their year in Japan.  The first of these series with Fellows currently in Japan featured Doug Jacobson (U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce) addressing “U.S. Government Trade Promotion Assistance for Small and Medium Sized Companies.” Former Diet member Hideki Makihara served as the moderator and commentator at the November 9, 2009 seminar.  To view Mr. Jacobson’s presentation, click here.  The next GRIPS seminar will feature Mansfield Fellow Michael Clark (National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce) discussing “Experiences with Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) as a Fisheries Management Tool and the Potential for their Inclusion in Japan.”  The January 29 seminar will be moderated by GRIPS Professor Masayuki Komatsu.

 

Mansfield Asian Opinion Poll Database

 

Our new web-based resource contains English translations of opinion polls from Japan, Korea and China, enabling visitors to our website to monitor key public opinion trends in Northeast Asia. Enter

 

 

New Polls:

Asahi Shimbun January 2010 Regular Public Opinion Poll (10-01)

Asahi Shimbun December 2009 Regular Public Opinion Poll (09-32)

 

New Commentary:

Back to the Future? : Comparing the U.S.-Japan Alliance Under Hatoyama With the U.S.-Korea Alliance Under Roh

Commentary by Janet Cho, 2008-2010 Mansfield Fellow, Asia Pacific Regional Specialist, United States Department of Defense
January 25, 2010

 

 

Upcoming Programs

Experiences with Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) as a Fisheries Management Tool and the Potential for their Inclusion in Japan

Speaker: Michael Clark, Mansfield Fellow, Fishery Management Specialist, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

U.S. Department of Commerce

Moderator: Masayuki Komatsu, Professor, the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

January 29, 2010, The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS),

Tokyo, Japan

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News

 

Mansfield Foundation November 2009 E-Newsletter

 

China Specialist Joins Mansfield Foundation Staff

 

The Mansfield Foundation and the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership Announce "U.S.-Japan Network for the Future" Program

 

Five Federal Employees Awarded Mansfield Fellowship as Program Celebrates its Fifteenth Year

 

Mansfield Foundation Board of Directors Meets Japanese Prime Minister Aso, Korean Prime Minister Han Seung Soo, and Key Political and Business Leaders in Japan and Korea

 

J. Thomas Schieffer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, joins Mansfield Foundation Board

 

Christopher J. LaFleur of J.P. Morgan Securities Japan Co., Ltd. joins Mansfield Foundation Board

 

Government of Japan awards Walter F. Mondale, Senior Counsel to Dorsey & Whitney, LLP, and Chairman of the Mansfield Foundation Board, the prestigious Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers

 

Rep. Dennis Rehberg Recognizes Mansfield Foundation’s 25th Anniversary

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Commentary

“The F-22 and the Japan-U.S. Alliance,” Article by Weston Konishi, Adjunct Fellow, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; and Robert Dujarric, Director, Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University, Japan Campus, published in PacNet Newsletter, July 1, 2009

 

Managing Interlinked Global Risks for Common Security in Asia,” commentary by Mika Shimizu, Visiting Scholar, East-West Center, with an introduction by Leo Bosner (Mansfield Fellow, 1999-2001)

 

“Three Yardsticks for a Strategic Evaluation:  Responding to a Nuclear North Korea”   Commentary by Gordon Flake, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation

 

“Major Powers in Asia: Implications for Southeast Asia and U.S. Policy” Commentary by Weston Konishi, Mansfield Foundation Adjunct Fellow and Council on Foreign Relations/Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan

 

“The Kaesong Industrial Complex: Lightning Rod or Banner?” Paper presented by Gordon Flake at The Third Hankyoreh-Busan International Symposium:

After 2007 Inter-Korean Summit: the Role of the Two Koreas for Peace in Northeast Asia, Busan, South Korea, on November 14, 2007

 

“A Vision for the Korean Peninsula at Kaesong Industrial Complex” Commentary by Gordon Flake, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, published in Hankyoreh

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_opinion/255152.html

 

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Previous Programs / Events

Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics

Speaker: Jennifer Lind, U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Fellow, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

January 21, 2010

Stability Operations and Requirements for a Transitioning Korea

Speaker: Jennifer Lind, U.S.-Japan Network for the Future Fellow, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington, D.C.

January 21, 2010,

U.S.-Japan Network for the Future

Washington, D.C.

January 6-8, 2010

APEC: Strengthening Strategic Ties between the U.S. and the Asia Pacific

Speaker: Kurt Tong, U.S. Senior Official for APEC, Bureau of East Asia and the Pacific, U.S. Department of State

Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill Asia Policy Dialogue

December 17, 2009

U.S. Government Trade Promotion Assistance for Small & Medium Sized Companies

Speaker: Douglas Jacobson, Mansfield Fellow, International Trade Specialist, U.S. Commercial Service, U.S. Department of Commerce

Moderator: Hideki Makihara, Former member of the House of Representatives in the Diet (LDP), Affiliated Fellow, the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

November 9, 2009, The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS),

Tokyo, Japan

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Seizing the Moment: APEC 2010 and 2011

A public forum hosted by Keizai Doyukai, the Australian National University, and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation

Tokyo, Japan

October 1, 2009

The DPJ's Foreign Policy: Implications for U.S.-Japan Relations

Speakers: Masatoshi Honda, PhD, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; and Weston Konishi, Analyst in Asian Affairs, Congressional Research Service, and Adjunct Fellow, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation

Mansfield Foundation Roundtable Discussion Series, Washington, D.C.

September 30, 2009

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Methuselah’s Challenge: Aging in Asia and America

The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center at the University of Montana and The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation Annual Conference

The University of Montana, Missoula, MT

September 23-25, 2009

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Benchmarking Development of the Rule of Law in Asia: 1999-2009

Taipei, Taiwan

September 9-13, 2009

North Korea: Challenges for the U.S., Japan and South Korea

Speakers: L. Gordon Flake, Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; Robert Carlin, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University; Evans J.R. Revere, President, The Korea Society

Moderator: Alicia Ogawa, Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University School of International Affairs; Senior Advisor, Center on Japanese Economy and Business, Columbia Business School

Japan Society, New York, NY

August 6, 2009

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The Promise and Peril of Northeast Asian Regional Integration

Speakers: L. Gordon Flake, Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; Peter Drysdale, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Visiting Fellow in Policy and Governance, Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australia National University; Zhang Yunling, Director of the Institute of Asia Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Funabashi Yoichi, Editor-in-Chief, Asahi Shimbun; Alan Romberg, Distinguished Fellow, Henry L. Stimson Center; Lee Chung-Min, Dean and Professor of International Relations, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University

Moderator: Paul Evans, Professor, The University of British Columbia

Ishikawa, Japan

July 24, 2009

Toward an Ideal Security State for Northeast Asia 2025: Kanazawa Conference

Kanazawa, Japan

July 22-24, 2009

 Young Economists Washington Seminar

Washington, D.C.

June 21-27, 2009

The Global Financial Crisis: Lessons from Japan

Speaker: Kazumasa Iwata, President, Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan
Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill Asia Policy Dialogue

April 21, 2009

China's Responses to the Global Economic Recession

Speaker: David Dollar, Country Director for China and Mongolia, World Bank
Co-sponsored with The U.S.-China Business Council

Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill Policy Dialogues

April 20 , 2009

The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation 25th Anniversary Conference on U.S.-Japan Relations in East Asia

Tokyo, Japan

April 15, 2009

China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security

Speaker: Scott Snyder, Director, Center for U.S.-Korea Policy,
and Senior Associate, Asia Foundation
Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill Asia Policy Dialogue

April 2, 2009

Japan's Role in the International Financial Crisis

Speaker: Robert Dujarric, director, Institute of Contemporary
Japanese Studies, Temple University Japan Campus, Tokyo
Moderator: Weston Konishi, Adjunct Fellow, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation
Mansfield Foundation Roundtable Discussion Series, Washington, D.C.

March 27, 2009

U.S.-Korea-Japan Approaches to the Financial Crisis

Speakers: Subir Lall, Chief, Korea Division,  Asia and Pacific Department, International Monetary Fund; Tom Oku, Chief Representative-Washington, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ; and Amy Searight, Vice President, Stonebridge International
Co-sponsored with CSIS and KEI. Washington, D.C.

March 24, 2009

Moving U.S.-China Relations to a New Stage Through Cooperation on Climate Change

Speaker: Kenneth Lieberthal, University of Michigan professor and Brookings Institution Visiting Fellow; David Sandalow, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow

Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill Policy Dialogues

March 11, 2009

The Obama Administration's Likely Approach to Trade: The Next Phase of Trade Agreements and Implications for Asia

Speaker: Michael Panzera, Mansfield Fellow, Trial Attorney, Civil Division, Commercial Litigation (International Trade), U.S. Department of Justice

Moderator: James R. Rhodes, Professor, The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

February 23, 2009, The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan

All China Youth Federation Leadership Group Visits

Washington, D.C., New York, and Montana

February 14-22, 2009

U.S.-Japan Healthcare and Medical Devices Exchange

Washington, D.C.

January 24-31, 2009

 

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