Since 1980, the Keizai Koho Center's Teacher Fellowship Program has invited social studies teachers from the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada to Japan for the opportunity to experience modern Japan, not the Japan of textbooks, firsthand for two weeks.
The
next Teacher Fellowship Program will be July 1, 2007 - July 13, 2007. Details about this year's program and past years are available here: index
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Under the Journalist Invitation Program, KKC brings editors and reporters from print and other media from leading American, European and Asian newspapers to Japan for one week visits. The purpose of this program is to promote a better understanding of Japan by giving journalists a first-hand look at Japan's corporate and governmental activities. Annual programs for American, British, and French journalists and editors (from major and minor dailies) have boosted ties between the media and other sectors of society and strengthened international bonds.
The March 6-10, 2006 program brought six Korean journalists to Japan.
French, Korean, German and Chinese journalists participated in 2005. British and South Korean journalists participated in 2004.
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The Keizai Koho Center's innovative Think Tanker Invitation Program brings senior economists and foreign policy experts from prominent think tanks and policy organizations in the United States and around the world to Japan to meet and exchange views with Japanese business leaders, academics and government officials.
In March 2007, Dr. Wing Thye Woo of the Brookings Institution was invited to Japan for a week to meet and exchange views with business, government, and academic leaders. On the last day of the program, he participated in a seminar entitled "Economic Integration in East Asia and Roles of Japan, U.S. and China," where he discussed his views before an audience of about 180 people. Dr. Fukunari Kimura (Keio University) and Dr. Hiroshi Nakanishi (Kyoto University) also participated as speakers in the seminar.
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The Keizai Koho Center's US Collegiate Business School Program was established in 1974. The purpose of the program is to stimulate curricular development of Japan-related education in American business schools and to provide participants with opportunities to pursue comparative research activities.
Further information can be found at: index
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For more information about all these KKC programs, please see: http://www.kkc.or.jp/english/activities/index.html
