Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) will be in Japan and New Zealand this week to promote the Trans-Pacific Partnership and stronger trade ties with Japan and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region.  He also will have the opportunity to meet with the nine Mansfield Fellows currently in Japan — the sixteenth group of Fellows who are completing their year in Japan and the seventeenth group who will begin working full-time for Japanese government offices in September.  Mansfield Foundation Deputy Executive Director David Boling is quoted in an August 16 Billings Gazette article about the trip. Click here to read the article, and here http://www.baucus.senate.gov/?p=press_release&id=1122 to read a press release about the trip from the office of Sen. Baucus.