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/
U.S. CULCON
Private Sector Members
Chair
Dr. Sheila A. Smith
John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia Pacific Studies
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
Panelists
Mr. Trevor Dawes
Vice Provost for Libraries and Museums and May Morris University Librarian
University of Delaware
Dr. Patricia Maclachlan
Professor of Government and Asian Studies and the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies
University of Texas
Dr. Samuel Morse
Howard and Martha Mitchel Professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilizations
Amherst College
Ms. M. Diana Helweg Newton
Director of the Tower Scholars Program and Senior Fellow, John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies
Southern Methodist University (SMU)
Dr. Leonard J. Schoppa, Jr.
Director, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
The University of Virginia
Mr. David Sneider
Partner
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Dr. William Tsutsui
President and CEO
Ottawa University
Ms. Shay Youngblood
Author
Public Sector Members
Michelle Asha Cooper
Acting Assistant Secretary of Education for Post-Secondary Education
U.S. Department of Education
Lee Satterfield
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Daniel J. Kritenbrink
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Honorary Member
Hon. Caroline Kennedy
Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
Japan CULCON
Japanese Panelists include:
For bios of all Japanese panelists in English and Japanese, please click here:
Chair
Ambassador Ryozo Kato
Former Ambassador to the United States
Vice Chair
Dr. Fumiaki Kubo
President, National Defense Academy of Japan
Panelists
Mr. Naoyuki Agawa
Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Mr. Hiroyuki Akita
Commentator, Nikkei Inc. Nikkei (“Japan Economic Journal”)
Mr. Akio Mimura
Chairman, the Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry Senior Advisor; Honorary Chairman, Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corporation
Dr. Hiroyuki Shimatani
Executive Director, Kyushu National Museum
Mr. Yasuyuki Sugiura
Managing Director, Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library)
Dr. Yuko Takahashi
President, Tsuda University
Ms. Hiroko Tsuka
Managing Director, The Japan Foundation; Acting Executive Director, Center for Global Partnership
Public Sector Members
Mr. Keiichi Ichikawa, Director-General, the North American Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Mr. Kenko Sone, Director-General for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Ms. Yasushi Taguchi, Director-General for International Affairs, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.
Advisor
Mr. Yutaka Aso, President & CEO, Aso Corporation and Aso Cement Co., Ltd
Japan-United States Friendship Commission (JUSFC)
For more information on JUSFC please go to our website here.
JUSFC and CULCON share an office and a great deal of institutional history.