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: カルコン:日米文化教育交流会議 (jpf.go.jp)
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. 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)
Mr. Kenneth A. Siegel
Partner
Tokyo, Morrison & Foerster
Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson
President
Texas A&M University-San Antonio (A&M-SA)
Dr. Jolyon Thomas
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
University of Pennsylvania
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
Private Sector Members
Chair
KATO Ryozo
Former Ambassador to the United States
Vice Chair
KUBO Fumiaki
President, National Defense Academy of Japan
Panelists
AGAWA Naoyuki
Professor Emeritus, Keio University
Member, Washington DC Bar Association
AKITA Hiroyuki
Commentator, Nikkei Inc.
SATO Yuri
Executive Vice President, The Japan Foundation
SHIMATANI Hiroyuki
President, National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
Executive Director, Kyushu National Museum
SUGIURA Yasuyuki
Managing Director, Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library)
TAKAHASHI Yuko
President, Tsuda University
TSUCHIYA Motohiro
Vice-President for Global Engagement and Information Technology, Keio University
Professor, Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance
Public Sector Members
ICHIKAWA Keiichi
Director-General, the North American Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
KANAI Masaaki
Director-General for Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
OKAMURA Naoko
Director-General for International Affairs, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology.
Advisor
ASO Yutaka
Chairman, Aso Corporation and Aso Cement Co., Ltd.
For bios of all Japanese panelists in English and Japanese, please click here
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.