CULCON is a binational advisory group to the U.S. and Japanese governments and is composed of two panels. For information and news about the Japan CULCON Panel, please visit: https://www.jpf.go.jp/culcon/
US CULCON
Private Sector Members
Chair
Outside Director and Member of the Board
New Business Development
Oak Lawn Marketing, Inc.
Vice-Chair
Senior Fellow for Japan Studies
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Panelists
Lecturer
George Washington University
Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies
University of Texas
Managing Director
Ithaka
William & Helen Pounds Sr. Curator of Japanese Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Professor of Political Science
University of California, Berkeley
Director, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
The University of Virginia
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Public Sector Members
Assistant Secretary of Education for Post-Secondary Education
U.S. Department of Education
Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Japan CULCON
Japanese Panelists include:
Chair
Former Ambassador to the United States
Vice Chair
Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo;
President, Japanese Association for American Studies
Members
Mr. Akio Mimura
Chairman, the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Senior Advisor/Honorary Chairman, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
Mr. Isao Kiso
President, Chiba Institute of Science
Mr. Naoyuki Agawa
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Doshisha University
Dr. Masako Egawa
Professor, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University
Mr. Akio Okawara
President/CEO, Japan Center for International Exchange
Mr. Junichi Chano
Executive Director, Center for Global Partnership/Managing Director, The Japan Foundation
Dr. Hiroyuki Shimatani
Executive Director, Kyushu National Museum
Ex-Officio Panelists include:
Mr. Takeo Mori, Director-General, the North American Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Mr. Manabu Miyagawa, Director-General for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Kazuaki Kawabata, Director-General for International Affairs, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.
Advisors include:
Mr. Yutaka Aso, President & CEO, Aso Corporation and Aso Cement Co., Ltd.
Mr. Minoru Makihara, Senior Corporate Advisor and Former Chairman, Mitsubishi Corporation;
Mr. Teiichi Sato, Former Ambassador to United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC)
For more information on JUSFC please go to our website here.
U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation (USJBF)
For more information on USJBF please go to our website here.
The U.S. CULCON Secretariat and related organizations shares offices and a great deal of organizational history. This is a helpful comparison of CULCON, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) and the U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation (USJBF):
For a PDF of the the mission statements, membership, contact information, etc., please click here.