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A Historical Chronology of JCIE

The Early Years: Programs with the United States

JCIE evolved from two predecessors, the Association of International Education and the Japan Council for International Understanding.

1964

• 1st Japanese School Teachers' Study Tour to the United States under the Japanese-American Teachers Exchange program
Sponsored by: Association of International Education and the Ford Foundation.

1966

• 2nd Japanese School Teachers' Study Tour to the United States

1967

Tokusaburo Kosaka welcoming US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield at the first Shimoda Conference.

• JCIE's predecessor, the Japan Council for International Understanding, cosponsored the 1st Japanese-American Assembly (1st Shimoda Conference). As the first regular private dialogue between senior Japanese and American leaders, the Shimoda Conference represented a landmark shift in US-Japan relations.
Cosponsored with: American Assembly of Columbia University

• 3rd Japanese School Teachers' Study Tour to the United States

1968

• US-Japan Parliamentary Exchange Program: 1st US Congressional Delegation to Japan
Cosponsored with: Japan Council for International Understanding and the Columbia University School for International Affairs

• 4th Japanese School Teachers' Study Tour to the United States

• Facilitation of the Council on Foreign Relations Study Trip to Japan

1969

US Congressional delegation to Japan, including Edmund Muskie, Mo Udall, Hugh Scott, Donald Rumsefeld, and Howard Baker.

• 2nd Japanese-American Assembly "Shimoda Conference" (Shimoda, Japan)

• US-Japan Parliamentary Exchange Program: 2nd US Congressional Delegation to Japan