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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

“Japan and the United States: Indispensable Partners, in Asia and Beyond”

In a speech hosted by the Mansfield Foundation on April 17, 2007, Robert M. Kimmitt, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, urged Japan to press ahead with economic reforms and recovery of its economy. 

 

CAP Membership

   

 

 

Mansfield Internships

Learn more about our internships.

 

Mansfield Foundation Visiting Fellows

Learn more about our visiting fellows program 

 

 

 

 

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 Committee of 100’s Survey on American and Chinese Attitudes Toward Each Other – an unprecedented, large-scale poll of U.S. and Chinese opinions about each other.

 

Japan's Defense Establishment: A Crisis of Confidence

Commentary by Weston S. Konishi, 2007-08 Council on Foreign Relations/Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan and adjunct fellow at the Mansfield Foundation

 

New Book

ROK Book Understanding New Political Realities in Seoul:

Working toward a Common Approach to Strengthen U.S.-Korean Relations

 

Five papers from leading American scholars on how the U.S. and South Korea might forge a common approach on economic and humanitarian issues; denuclearization; a Northeast Asia peace and security mechanism; trade and economic relations; and the U.S.-ROK military alliance.  Includes an introduction, recommendations and chapter summaries in Korean.

 

 

Upcoming Programs

“An Insider View on U.S. and Japanese Policy towards the Asia Pacific”

Speaker: William R. Golike, Mansfield Fellow, International Trade Specialist, Office of the Pacific Basin, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce and Dawn N. Kawasaki, Mansfield Fellow, International Trade Specialist, Manufacturing and Services/Office of Materials and Machinery, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Moderator: Izumi Ohno, Professor, The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

June 12, 2008, The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan

For registration information

“Forging New U.S.-ROK Political Relationships”

This program, which consists of a series of retreats for likely leaders in post-Bush and post-Roh administrations, will consider key issues in the U.S.-ROK alliance and seek to forge deep political-level relationships among participants.

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News

Five Federal Employees Awarded Mansfield Fellowships

 

Margo Grimm Eule Joins Mansfield Foundation Team

 

Walter F. Mondale to Chair Mansfield Foundation Board

 

Glacier Club provides cherry trees and donation to Mansfield Foundation’s sister organization, the Mansfield Center in Montana

 

Government of Japan awards Ambassador Howard Baker, Jr., Senior Counsel to Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C., and Mansfield Foundation Board Member, the prestigious Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers

 

Mansfield Foundation Board Member Charles D. Lake II, Vice Chairman, Aflac Japan, featured in NHK program on globalization (in Japanese)

 

Mary D. Byron of Goldman Sachs Japan joins Mansfield Foundation Board

 

Teng Margaret Fu and Mari Aoyagi join Mansfield Foundation Team

 

Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, Honorary Chairman of the Board, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Mansfield Foundation Board Member, received the prestigious award of Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers from the Government of Japan, fall 2007.

 

Alicia Ogawa, expert on Japan’s financial system, joins Mansfield Foundation board. 

 

Two Mansfield Foundation board members receive Japan’s prestigious Order of the Rising Sun awards:  Norman Mineta receives the Grand Order of the Rising Sun; Bill Breer receives the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays.

 

Commentary

“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

"Is Japan Transitioning to a New Governance?"  Commentary by Kazumi Noguchi, Research Associate, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation

"Lessons learned from the BDA Debacle and the Six Party Talks"

Commentary by Gordon Flake, Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation

"When Implementation is Not Enough: Reviving the Six-Party Talks"

Commentary by Gordon Flake, Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation

"U.S.-ROK: Diverging Threat Perceptions of North Korea?"

Commentary by Ralph A. Cossa, President, Pacific Forum, CSIS

" Forging an Enduring Foundation for U.S.-ROK Relations"

Commentary by David C. Kang, Professor of Government, Dartmouth Coll

“Between Kantian Peace and Hobbesian Anarchy:  South Korea’s Vision for Northeast Asia” 

Commentary by Chung-in Moon, Professor of Political Science, Yonsei University, and Ambassador for International Security Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

“Divergent Threat Perceptions on North Korea

Commentary by Hyeong Jung Park, Visiting Fellow, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution 

“An Assessment of Current ROK-U.S. Relations”

Commentary by Kang Choi, Institute for Foreign Affairs and National Security

“Visions of Northeast Asia Regionalism:  The United States and the Republic of Korea”

Commentary by Gilbert F. Rozman, Musgrave Professor of Sociology at Princeton University

“The Role of Mike Mansfield in Consolidating Mongolia’s International Status in Establishing Diplomatic Relations with the United States” by Alicia Campi

"Assessing Public Opinion Data: What to look for, and what to look past"
by William Watts

"Listening to the People: Japanese Democracy and the New Security Agenda" Commentary by Andrew L. Oros

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Previous Programs / Events

“The Politics of the Internet in Japan”

Speaker: Jim Foster, Director for Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Japan.  Washington, D.C., Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill Policy Dialogues

May 28, 2008

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“FDA: Meeting the Challenges of a Rapidly Changing World”

Speaker: Sema Hashemi, Mansfield Fellow, International Policy Analyst, Office of Commissioner/Office of International Programs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Moderator: Atsushi Sunami, Association Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

May 13, 2008, The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan

“Populism to Prudence? The State of Sino-Japanese Relations”

Speaker: Kiichi Fujiwara, Professor of International Politics, Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo and Edward Lincoln, Director of the Center for Japan-U.S. Business and Economic Studies and Professor of Economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. U.S. Capitol, Toshiba Japan Discussion Series

May 13, 2008

“Japan’s Financial Diplomacy and Its Implication for the United States”

Speaker:  R. Logan Sturm, International Economist, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan

“An Insider’s Perspective on Health Policy and Tobacco Control in Japan and the United States”

Speaker:  Deirdre Lawrence, Ph.D., MPH, Epidemiologist, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Mansfield Fellow 2005-07. Seattle, Washington

April 22, 2008

“Critical Issues in U.S.-China Relations: A Conversation with Congressman Mark Kirk”

Speaker: Congressman Mark Kirk (R-IL). Washington, D.C., Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill Policy Dialogues

April 10, 2008

“A Conversation with Ma Zhengang on China's Military Modernization, Taiwan, and Energy Diplomacy: Implications for Asia-Pacific regional stability and U.S. National Security"

Speaker:  Ma Zhengang, Chairman of China National Committee, Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) and President of China Arms Control and Disarmament Association.  Washington, D.C., Capitol Hill, Capitol Hill Asia Policy Dialogues/CAP

March 27, 2008

“Japan’s Policies Towards Asia and the U.S.-Japan Alliance”

Speaker:  Kenichiro Sasae, Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan.  Asia Dialogues on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., March 19, 2008

 “Understanding New Political Realities in Korea: Views from Washington and Seoul”

Speakers:  L. Gordon Flake, Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield

Foundation, and Dr. Geun Lee, Associate Professor, Seoul National University

Moderator: Takashi Osanai, Deputy Director-General, Japan Institute of

International Affairs

Commentator:  Hideya Kurata, Professor,Kyorin University and Senior Adjunct

Fellow, Japan Institute of International Affairs

Co-sponsored with the Japan Institute of International Affairs

March 4, Tokyo, Japan

"Stalemate in the Six-Party Talks: U.S. Perspectives on the North Korean Nuclear Crisis"

Speaker:  L. Gordon Flake, Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield

Foundation; Moderator: Dr. Takashi Kawakami, Professor, Faculty of

International Studies, Takusyoku University

Co-sponsored with the Tokyo Foundation

March 3, Tokyo, Japan

“A New Dawn for the Korean Peninsula: Evaluating the Election of Lee Myung-bak and Its Implications for the U.S.-ROK Alliance and North Korea”

Two public events featuring Thomas  J. Byrne, Moodys Financial Institutions and Sovereign Risk Group; L. Gordon Flake, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; and Scott Rembrandt, Korea Economic Insitute

Monday, February 25, 2008, 4-6 pm, University Theater, The University of Montana, Missoula

Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 3-5 pm, Student Union, Carroll College, Helena

Co-sponsored by the Mansfield Foundation, Korea Economic Institute, Mansfield Center at the University of Montana, and Carroll College

China’s Quest for Energy Security: Implications for U.S. Foreign Policy

Speaker:  Dr. Jean Garrison, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Wyoming

February 12, 2008, U.S. Capitol  

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Japan’s New Role in Asia: Crafting Credibility in Relations with China and ASEAN”

GRIPS-Mansfield Foundation Joint Seminar

Speakers:  James L. Hathaway, Mansfield Fellow and Leadership Exchange Specialist, East Asia, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Zhao Liqing, Professor, Institute of International Strategic Studies, Central Party School of China Communist Party

February 8, 2008, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo.

Japan's Role in the Middle East, Middle East Peace Process and Iran:  Implications for the U.S.-Japan Alliance

Speaker:  Shinsuke Sugiyama, Deputy Director General for Middle East, Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan

February 5, noon to 2:00 pm, U.S. Capitol

Korea Institute for National Unification (KINU) Workshop

(Co-sponsored by KINU and the Mansfield Foundation)

Speakers:  KINU President Bong-Jo Rhee; Gordon Flake, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation; Katy Oh, Institute for Defense Analysis; and Derek Mitchell, CSIS

Thursday, January 31, 2008, The Madison Hotel, Washington, D.C.

“The Lee Myung-bak Administration and Korea-Japan Relations”

Korea-Japan Study Group

Speakers:  Stephen Costell, President, Pro Global Consulting; Takashi Sakamoto, Senior Correspondent, The Yomiuri Shimbun; Scott Snyder, Senior Associate, International Relations, Asia Foundation; with Scott Rembrandt, Moderator, Director, Research and Academic Affairs, Korea Economic Institute

January 23, 2008, Washington, D.C. 

Understanding New Political Realities in Seoul: Working toward a Common  Approach to Strengthen U.S.-Korea Relations

A series of five seminars, Washington, D.C.

January 10 & 16, 2008. 

U.S.-Japan Finance and Economic Cooperation Exchange

Washington, D.C. and New York

January 12-19, 2008

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An Asian Perspective on Climate Change: A New Factor in U.S. National Security and International Peace and Stability?

Speaker:  Dr. Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India

January 17, 2008, U.S. Capitol

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Japan’s Values Diplomacy: Dead or Alive?          

Speaker:  Weston S. Konishi, Adjunct Fellow, Mansfield Foundation, CFR/Hitachi

Fellow, Institute for International Policy

Brown bag lunch discussion at the Mansfield Foundation

January 4, 2008, noon – 1:30 pm. 

RSVP by January 3, 2008, to maoyagi@mansfieldfdn.org

Nukes, Missiles and Abductions: A Japanese Perspective on the Six-Party Talks

Speaker: Minister Akitaka Saiki, Embassy of Japan

December 18, 2007, U.S. Capitol (by invitation only)

“China’s Quest for Energy Security in Asia:  Addressing the Climate Change Challenge”

Speaker:  Dr. Jean A. Garrison, Association Professor at the University of Wyoming and visiting fellow at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation

December 10, 2007, Washington, D.C.

“The Future of the Japanese Economy”--  Toshiba U.S.-Japan Discussion Series

Speaker:  Christopher Winship, Deputy Director of East Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury and Mansfield Fellow (2003-05), October 23, 2007, Cambridge, Mass.

"After Abe: the U.S.-Japan Alliance Under Prime Minister Fukuda"

Speaker:  Michael J. Green, Japan Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies, associate professor, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service

October 24, 2007, Washington, D.C.

 

Global Carbon Reduction:  Developing New Strategies and Deploying New Technologies in Japan and the United States

September 6, 2007, Tokyo, Japan

A symposium co-sponsored with the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership

CGP newsletter coverage of symposium (in Japanese)

Mansfield Fellowship alumna Diane Hooie's symposium presentation (in English)

Mansfield Fellowship alumna Diane Hooie's symposium presentation (in Japanese)

“A Budding Strategic Partnership: India-Japan Relations in the “New Asian Era”

August 31 and September 1, 2007, New Delhi, India

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Keynote Address by Ambassador Arjun Asrani

“The China Threat:  Myth or Reality?”

The 23rd Mansfield Conference and Retreat, September 19-21, 2007, Missoula, Montana

Global Carbon Reduction:  Developing New Strategies and Deploying New Technologies in Japan and the United States

September 6, 2007, Tokyo, Japan

A symposium co-sponsored with the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership

Following in the Footsteps of Elvis: Prime Minister Abe’s Post-Koizumi Challenge

Speaker: Professor Koji Murata, Doshisha University, Visiting Mansfield Research Fellow

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

The Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA): Promise or Peril?

Panelists:  Seok Young Choi, Minister, Embassy of the Republic of Korea; Laura Lane, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, Citigroup; Douglas Meyer, Senior Economist, United Auto Workers, and Jeffrey Schott, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute of International Economics

August 21, 2007, Washington, D.C.

   

 

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