Legacy

Fellows reunion at Japan Society. Photos © Daphne Youree.

Japan Society Fellowships

U.S. Japan Media Fellows Program (1996-2008)
Local Government and Public Policy Fellowship (1997-2003)
U.S.-Japan Leadership Program (1984-1996)

From 1984-2008, Japan Society Fellowships provided mid-career American leaders with the opportunity to learn more about Japan through first-hand, individually tailored programs in Japan. For 13 years, Japanese journalists were provided with a similar opportunity in the United States. The Japan Society established the U.S.-Japan Leadership Program to help overcome the serious shortage of American leaders familiar with Japan. In 1996, the Program evolved into the Local Government and Public Policy Fellowship and the U.S.-Japan Media Fellows Program, which also included Japanese journalists.

Media Fellows
Government and Public Policy Fellows
Leadership Program Fellows

U.S-Japan Media Fellows Program

2007-08 Robert S. Boynton, author, Associate Professsor & Director, Literary Reportage, Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, New York University Micah Fink, Producer, Director, Writer & Founder, Common Good Productions Dana Goodyear, Staff Writer, The New Yorker Barry C. Lynn, writer & Senior Fellow, New America Foundation Liza Mundy, writer, journalist & Senior Fellow, New America Foundation			2006 Daniel Pink, author Joshua Wolf Shenk, author & Executive Director and Writer-in-Residence, Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute, University of Nevada Las Vegas Brad Stone, Senior Writer, Bloomberg Businessweek
2005 Mark Halperin, Managing Editor, Bloomberg Politics Kenichi Hanioka, Senior Writer, Nikkei Medical Maggie Jones, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine Takao Norikoshi, dance critic and writer Madhulika Sikka, author & media executive David Samuels, Contributing Editor, Harper’s Magazine & Contributor, The Atlantic and The New Yorker			2003-2004 Hideo Amma, Correspondent, Moscow Bureau, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) Kelly Jones, freelance writer Charles Lane, Member, Editorial Board, The Washington Post Hiroyuki Nakano, Staff Writer, Shinano Mainichi Shimbun Alexandra Starr, freelance writer Margaret Talbot, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
2002-2003 Phoebe Eaton, freelance writer and editor Keijiro Kawakami, Director, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) News Michiko Nakamura, Science & Medical Reporter, Asahi Shimbun Clifford Pearson, Director, American Academy in China, USC School of Architecture Sheridan Prasso, Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg News Seth Stevenson, Contributing Writer, Slate			2001-2002 Micki Maynard, Senior Editor, Here & Now, NPR David Plotz, CEO, Atlas Obscura Yoshihiko Saito, Correspondent, Berlin Bureau, Mainichi Shimbun Jim Sciutto, Chief National Security Correspondent, CNN Kara Swisher, Executive Editor, Recode; Host, Recode Decode podcast; & Co-Executive Producer, Code Conference Takeshi Tanikawa, Associate Professor and Program Manager, Graduate School of Political Science, Waseda University
2000-2001 Steven Levy, Senior Writer, Wired Douglas McGray, Editor in Chief, The California Sunday Magazine & Pop-Up Magazine and CEO, California Sunday, Inc. John McQuaid, author & Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Maki Okubo, Senior Staff Writer, Asahi Shimbun Peggy Orenstein, author & Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine Tomoko Sakota, Senior Program Director, Educational Program Center, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)			1999-2000 Veronica Chambers, writer Beth Nissen, Director, Video and Content Production, Association of College and University Educators Misao Okasaka, Chief of News Section, Shikoku Branch, Okayama Broadcasting Corp. William Powers, author & Research Scientist, Laboratory for Social Machines, MIT Media Lab Hampton Sides, writer Kiho Yokoyama, Staff Writer, The Nikkei Weekly
1998 Gregory Beals, freelance writer Jacob Heilbrunn, Editor, The National Interest Masakazu Honda, Senior Staff Writer, Asahi Shimbun Alan C. Miller, President & CEO, The News Literacy Project & Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Shenk, author Yuji Suzuki, Fellow, NHK Broadcast Culture Research Center			1997 Carol E. Buckland, Executive Communication Coach, The Communication Center Claudia M. Kolker, Associate Director, Intellectual Capital, Marketing and Communications, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University Philip W.D. Martin, writer and independent public radio commentator Jack Norman, Research Director, Institute for Wisconsin's Future Yuki Sato, Senior Staff Writer, Mainichi Shimbun Katsuhiko Shimizu, Political Reporter, Bunka Hoso Radio
1996 Peter A. Demchuk, Producer, Discovery Networks Stan Grossfeld, Photographer, The Boston Globe Takeo Harada, TV Correspondent, Sanyo Broadcasting Co. Miriam Horn, Special Projects, Environmental Defense Fund Cait Murphy, Senior Editor, McKinsey & Company Hirohito Ohno, Senior Staff Writer, Asahi Shimbun

Local Government & Public Policy Fellowship

2002-2003 Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and Associate Professor, Georgetown University Howard Rosen, Executive Director, Trade Adjustment Assistance Coalition Elizabeth Sturcken, Managing Director, California Corporate Partnerships, Environmental Defense			2001-2002 Juley Fulcher, Director of Public Policy & Legal Services, Break the Cycle Mary Lassen, Managing Director, Center for Community Change Chris Steineger, Senator, Kansas State Senate
2000-2001 Roy B. Herron, Partner, Herron Law Offices Paulette R. Irons, Judge, Civil District Court, Division M, New Orleans Susan K. Parsons, Founding Director, Reid R. Sacco Adolescent and Young Adult Program for Cancer and Hereditary Blood Diseases; Director, The Center for Health Solutions at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies; Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine Robert T. Welch, Principal, The Welch Group			1999-2000 Amy Dean, former CEO, South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council Rosanne Haggerty, President & CEO, Community Solutions Beryl Roberts, former Representative, Florida State House of Representatives James West †
1998 John C. Byrne, Chief Operations Officer, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Roszell Hunter, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Trade, Energy and the Environment, National Security Council Patricia Nagel, former Representative, Wyoming State House of Representatives Robert Rogowsky, Director of Operations, U.S. International Trade Commission			1997 Clifford Chanin, Vice President, Education and Public Programs, National September 11 Memorial & Museum Michael S. Connor, Executive Director, San Francisco Estuary Institute Dawnna M. Dukes, Representative, Texas State House of Representatives Robert C. Randolph, Partner, Carr Swanson & Randolph, LLC

U.S.-Japan Leadership Program

1995-1996 Karen DeWitt, Executive Communications Manager & Presidential Speech Writer, American Bar Association Kitty Eisele, Supervising Senior Editor, Morning Edition, NPR Denise Gamino, Staff Writer, Austin American-Statesman Jay M. Parker, Distinguished Professor & Department Chair, College of International Security Affairs, National Defense University Rosemary Potter, Principal, Rosemary Potter & Associates Stephen Salyer, President, Salzburg Seminar W. Bruce Weinrod, Defense Advisor, US Mission NATO and Secretary of Defense Representative Europe, US Mission at NATO, Brussels Belgium			1993-1994 Michael L. Campbell, Associate Vice Chancellor, University of California, Merced James C. Early, Director Cultural Heritage Policy, Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution Gregory P. Hess, Vice President, New Product Development and Commercialization, Surveillance Data, Inc. Repps Hudson, freelance journalist & Adjunct Instructor of International Affairs and Journalism, Washington University in St. Louis Michael T. Lempres, Executive Managing Director, Carmen Group Incorporated Jeffrey Rechenbach, Vice President, Communications Workers of America Mary Schiavo, Attorney, Motley Rice LLC J.J. Yore, General Manager, WAMU
1991-1992 Jonathan Alter, author; Columnist, Daily Beast; & Executive Producer, Alpha House Ronald Brownstein, Editorial Director, National Journal Group Michael Calhoun † David Huntsman, Chief, Systems Engineering Division, NASA M. Margaret McKeown, Circuit Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Kien Pham, Executive Director, Vietnam Education Foundation Adis M. Vila, Senior Fellow, Institute for Cross Cultural Management, Florida Institute of Technology			1990-1991 Mari Carmen Aponte, Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, U.S. Department of State John W. Danaher, Executive Vice President, HowStuffWorks, Inc. Susan Dentzer, President & Chief Executive Officer, The Network for Excellence in Health Innovation Karen McCarthy, Member, U.S. House of Representatives Lindsay Miller, freelance writer and editor Harley Shaiken, Professor, Work and Technology, Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley Walter Shapiro, Columnist, Roll Call; Lecturer, Political Science, Yale University; & Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law Derek Shearer, Director of Global Affairs and Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy, Occidental College Daniel B. Waggoner, Military Training Instructor, U.S. Army AMEDD Center & School Juan Williams, Political Analyst, Fox News
1989-90 Robert L. Albright, former Executive Vice President, Educational Testing Services Barry P. Bosworth, Senior Fellow in Economics, The Brookings Institution Richard de Neufville, Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering, Founding Chairman, Technology and Policy Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mark S. Dodson, President and CEO, NW Natural Gordon W. Earle, Managing Director, Corporate Community Services, Dirty Water Integrated Richard W. Fisher, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Michael A. Lerner, President, Commonweal Jonathan C. Rauch, Senior Writer, National Journal Terry T. Saario, former Partner, Bravo! Inc. Peter H. Smith, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego Paul S. Stevens, President, Investment Company Institute			1988 Jill M. Considine, Chairman and CEO, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corp. J. Michael McGinnis, Senior Scholar, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences Peter Rinearson, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation Vicki Saporta, President and CEO, National Abortion Federation Gregg Suhler, Managing Member, Dynamic Predictables P. Michael Timpane, Education Consultant Alan Webber, Founding Editor and former President, Fast Company
1987 Burnill F. Clark, former President and CEO, KCTS Television Nelson A. Diaz, Attorney, Cozen O’Connor Richard Northern, Partner, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs Thomas N. Oliphant, former Political Columnist, The Boston Globe Lynn A. Schenk, Chief of Staff, Office of Governor Gray Davis Donna E. Shalala, President, The Clinton Foundation Susan R. Spencer, Correspondent, 48 Hours Bruce Stokes, Director, Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center Linda Tarr-Whelan, Demos Distinguished Senior Fellow for Women’s Leadership and Managing Partner, Tarr-Whelan & Associates, Inc. James H. Trask, Finance Director, Fuel Cell Activities, General Motors Corporation			1986 Janet H. Brown, Executive Director, Commission on Presidential Debates David A. Curson, Director, Special Projects & Economic Analysis, UAW James Fallows, National Correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly Kevin F. F. Quigley, President, Marlboro College Donald M. Stewart, former President and CEO, Chicago Community Trust & former President & CEO, College Board Alice Tepper Marlin, Founder & Former President, Social Accountability International Noel Tichy, Professor, Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management, University of Michigan
1984-85 Wayne Anderson, President, Associated Colleges of the South Daniel E. Burton, VP, Government Affairs, Entrust, Inc. Benjamin P. Dunlap, President, Wofford College Marian Wright Edelman, President, Children's Defense Fund Peter B. Edelman, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center John Lindauer, economist & former Member, Alaska House of Representatives Carol O'Cleireacain, Deputy Mayor, Detroit Daniel Pipes, Director, Middle East Forum Joseph Zesbaugh, media consultant

The U.S.-Japan Media Fellows Program was made possible through generous funding form the United States-Japan Foundation. Assistance was provided by the Foreign Press Center.

The Local Government and Public Policy Fellowship program was made possible by The Starr Foundation, Yamanouchi USA Foundation, and Shiseido Cosmetics (America) Ltd.

The U.S.-Japan Leadership Program was generously funded by the United States-Japan Foundation, Yamanouchi USA Foundation, and Shiseido Cosmetics (America) Ltd., and Meltex Inc.

Transportation for the Fellowship was supported by Japan Airlines.

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