The Program was founded in 1980 on the belief that the United States and Japan have become so interdependent that the problems they face urgently require their cooperation. Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Program enables outstanding scholars and practitioners to come together at Harvard University to conduct independent research and participate in an ongoing dialogue with other members of the Harvard and greater Cambridge-Boston communities.

Broad since its inception, the Program's intellectual mandate has included a full range of issues in bilateral relations, such as trade frictions, Japanese investment in the United States, exchange rate management, and military relations; domestic problems that bear on Japan's international behavior; and Japan's relations with the rest of the world. In recent years, much research and discussion has focused on Japan's expanding international role in the fields of development, environmental protection, energy, and security.

Download information on the U.S-Japan Program (PDF in Japanese)

日米関係プログラムについて（日本語PDF）

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