In February 1991, the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership held a symposium, "Challenges and Opportunities for U.S.-Japan Exchange in the New Era," which focused mainly on the conduct of intellectual exchange in the context of the Japan-U.S. relationship and in which representatives of major foundations and research institutions in the United States and Japan participated. Published with the cooperation of the Japan Center for International Exchange, this report reproduces the texts of speeches given during the symposium and provides a brief summary of points raised in discussion.

This report is organized under five major themes: development of the U.S.-Japan relationship and exchange in the new era, the bilateral relationship and foundations and institutions in the new era, enhancing human resources for bilateral exchange, new approaches to exchange and cooperation, and global issues and common problems of advanced societies. The report stresses the qualitatively changing nature of the relationship and the consequent need to recast it in view of new global realities, especially through enhanced intellectual exchange.

Chapters

Interdependence, Collaboration, and Independence in Japan-U.S. Exchange

Colin G. Campbell, President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Partnership in the New Age: The Role of International Exchange and Cooperation

Nobuo Matsunaga, President and Director, The Japan Institute of International Affairs

A New Global Agenda

John W. Sewell, President, Overseas Development Council

New Priorities in U.S.-Japan Exchange and Cooperation

Yoichi Funabashi, Asahi Shimbun Columnist

Independent Institutions in the United States as Models

Susan V. Berresford, Vice President, The Ford Foundation

The Role of Japanese Organizations in Bilateral Exchange

Atsushi Shimokobe, President, National Institute for Research Advancement

Independent Thinking about Public Policy

Bruce K. MacLaury, President, The Brookings Institution

American Foundations and International Exchange

Craufurd D. Goodwin, Professor, Department of Economics, Duke University

Developing Human Resources

Stanley N. Katz, President, American Council of Learned Societies

Fostering a Community for Mutual Understanding

Nagayo Homma, Professor, Department of Cross-Cultural Studies, Tokyo Women's Christian University

Human Resources for Policy Research in International Relations

Masashi Nishihara, Professor, Department of Social Sciences, National Defense Academy

Investing Intellectual Resources

Caroline A. Matano Yang, Executive Director, The Japan-United States Educational Commission

Internationalization of the Social Sciences and Joint Endeavor

David L. Featherman, President, Social Science Research Council

Broadening the Perspective of Intellectual Exchange

Michio Nagai, Chairman, The International House of Japan

Collaboration to Solve Common Problems

Thomas O. Bayard, Deputy Director and Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics

U.S.-Japan Cooperation to Solve Global Issues

Sheila A. McLean, Vice President, Institute of International Education

Partnership in the Global Context

Taizo Yakushiji, Professor, Graduate Institute of Policy Science, Saitama University

The Multilateral Dimension of U.S.-Japan Cooperation

William H. Gleysteen, Jr., President, Japan Society

Exploring Shared Concerns and Experiences

Sumiko Iwao, Professor, Institute for Communications Research, Keio University

Sustainable Development—A Common Goal

Robert W. Fri, President, Resources for the Future

Challenges to Pluralization and Response to the South

Akira Kojima, Editorial Writer, Nihon Keizai Shimbun

Collaborating to Aid Eastern Europe

Paul Balaran, Program Officer, International Affairs Program, The Ford Foundation

The "Intellectual" Contribution to International Understanding

Kazuo Nukazawa, Managing Director, Keidanren

Summary and Conclusions

Gerald L. Curtis, Director, East Asian Institute, Columbia University