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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

Five federal employees awarded Mansfield Fellowships

 

Toshiba Japan Discussion Series 2005-2008

 

Fellows Featured in American View article:

in Japanese

in English

Corporate Affiliates Program

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 25th Anniversary Conference

 

Twenty-five years ago, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation was established to honor Mike Mansfield and his wife Maureen and to further their efforts to promote understanding and cooperation between the United States and Asia.  As part of its 25th anniversary celebration, on April 15 the Mansfield Foundation hosted a major conference in Tokyo on U.S.-Japan relations in East Asia.   Former Vice President Walter F. Mondale delivered the keynote speech.

 

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

 

 

Asian Opinion Poll Database adds new Asahi Shimbun and Nikkei Shimbun Polls.

 

Insouciance Concerning the Worst Recession in 60 Years?  Thoughts on Japanese Newspaper Polls

 

Commentary by Edward J. Lincoln, Director of the Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies and Clinnical Professor of Economics at New York University Stern School of Business

 

Upcoming Programs

Young Economists Washington Seminar

Washington, D.C.

June 21-27, 2009

 

News

 

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

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

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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