February 9, 2012 

CULCON celebrates 50 years of commitment to promoting educational and cultural exchange between the people of Japan and the U.S. U.S. CULCON panelists Anne Nishimura Morse and Susan Pharr, along with U.S. CULCON Secretary-General Paige Cottingham-Streater met Prime Minister Abe during his February 22, 2013 Summit visit to Washington, DC, and discussed with him the importance of educational and cultural exchanges and recent recommendations by CULCON’s Education Task Force to increase the number of Japanese undergraduates studying in the United States.