Maximizing U.S. Interests in Science and Technology Relations with Japan (1997)
Chapter: Front Matter
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COMMITTEE ON JAPAN
Erich Bloch, Chairman
Council on Competitiveness
Richard J. Samuels, Vice-Chairman
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sherwood L. Boehlert
U.S. House of Representatives
Lewis M. Branscomb
Harvard University
G. Steven Burrill
Burrill & Company
Lawrence W. Clarkson
The Boeing Co.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David A. Duke
Coming Inc. (retired)
Daniel J. Fink
D. J. Fink Associates, Inc.
John O. Haley
University of Washington
Jim F. Martin
Rockwell Science Center
Joseph A. Massey
Dartmouth College
Mike M. Mochizuki
The Brookings Institution
Hugh T. Patrick
Columbia University
John D. Rockefeller IV
U.S. Senate
Robert A. Scalapino
University of California, Berkeley
Susan C. Schwab
University of Maryland
Ex Officio Members:
Harold K. Forsen, Foreign Secretary,
National Academy of Engineering
F. Sherwood Rowland, Foreign Secretary,
National Academy of Sciences
COMPETITIVENESS TASK FORCE
Jim F. Martin, Chairman
Rockwell Science Center
Alan J. Bennett
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Suzanne Berger
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David A. Duke
Corning Inc. (retired)
Edward M. Graham
Institute for International Economics
John O. Haley
University of Washington
David W. Martin, Jr.
Eos Biotechnology, Inc.
James C. McGroddy
IBM Corp. (retired)
William F. Powers
Ford Motor Co.
James J. Solberg
Purdue University
Deborah Wince-Smith
Council on Competitiveness
John Zysman
University of California, Berkeley
Ex Officio Member
Richard J. Samuels
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
OFFICE OF JAPAN AFFAIRS
Since 1985 the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering have engaged in a series of high-level discussions on advanced technology and the international environment with a counterpart group of Japanese scientists, engineers, and industrialists. One outcome of these discussions was a deepened understanding of the importance of promoting a more balanced two-way flow of people and information between the research and development systems in the two countries. Another result was a broader recognition of the need to address the science and technology policy issues increasingly central to a changing U.S.-Japan relationship. In 1987 the National Research Council, the operating arm of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering, authorized first-year funding for the Office of Japan Affairs (OJA). This program element of the Office of International Affairs was formally established in the spring of 1988.
The primary objectives of OJA are to provide a resource to the Academy complex and the broader U.S. science and engineering communities for information on Japanese science and technology, to promote better working relationships between the technical communities in the two countries by developing a process of deepened dialogue on issues of mutual concern, and to address policy issues surrounding a changing U.S.-Japan science and technology relationship.
Staff
Thomas Arrison, Staff Officer
Maki Fife, Program Associate
