August 31, 2017 Mansfield Fellow Siri Hakala, who recently completed her Fellowship year in Japan, described her April placement with the Kanagawa Prefectural Fisheries Technology Center in a recent blog post. Ms. Hakala is a biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
August 31, 2017
This week the twenty-second group of Mansfield Fellows prepared for the second part of their Fellowship year — ten months of placements primarily in Japanese government offices — with a series of meetings in Tokyo. In addition to orientation meetings with Mansfield Foundation staff, on August 28 the Fellows met with representatives of the Japanese government agencies that ...READ MORE »
August 31, 2017
This fall alumni Mansfield Fellow Howard Stone (U.S. Justice Department) spent several weeks in Japan meeting with colleagues from Japanese government and other organizations where he was placed during his 2014-2015 Mansfield Fellowship. Mr. Stone met with Japanese Diet member Shinjiro Koizumi as well as with former colleagues and contacts in the National Police Agency, the Pharmaceutical Medical Devices Agency, the Ministry of ...READ MORE »
August 17, 2017 Nine years after his placement with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (now Panasonic), alumni Fellow Bill Golike returned to Panasonic’s Tokyo office to meet with executives in the company’s International Relations Department. Mr. Golike, who currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Department of Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary for Global Markets, participated in the Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program as a ...READ MORE »
August 10, 2017
Members of the twenty-second class of Mansfield Fellows have spent the last few weeks immersed not only in intensive Japanese language study, but also in Japanese culture. The seven-week program in Ishikawa Prefecture is intended to strengthen the new Fellows’ Japanese language skills and introduce them to aspects of Japan’s culture, economy, government, and education outside Tokyo. For ...READ MORE »
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