September 26, 2019 On September 24, Alumni Fellow Michael Luke Deckard (MFP 22) visited the Mansfield Foundation at the International House of Japan in Tokyo to meet with current Mansfield Fellows. Lieutenant Colonel Deckard, now the Japan Country Director at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, explained his current duties in the context of the United States Indo-Pacific Strategy and how ...READ MORE »
September 5, 2019 Michele Tempel (MFP 23) wrote about her placement with Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES) in the institute’s latest magazine. Captain Tempel completed her Fellowship year this summer, and focused on Japan’s environmental policy development and implementation. In the article (available online in Japanese), the Air Force officer talks ...READ MORE »
August 8, 2019 Alumni Fellow Michael Bosack (MFP 18) recently accepted the role of Deputy Secretary, United Nations Command Military Armistice Commission. His career in U.S.-Japan alliance management has often intersected with maintaining peace on the Korean peninsula, and he has a forthcoming journal article entitled “The Relationship between UN Command and Japan: Past, Present, and Future.”
July 25, 2019 Mansfield Fellowship Program Alumni Fellow Siri Hakala (MFP 21) recently published an article about her experience for the Ocean Policy Research Institute’s Ocean Newsletter. Hakala, an employee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service, wrote about the new perspectives she gained from the program with regard to protecting ...READ MORE »
June 20, 2019
From right: Ken Cavanaugh, Riley Downing, Michael Fletcher, Sean Wilson, and Richard Gabbert
Several members of the 21st class of Mansfield Fellows recently got together to wish Riley Downing (Federal Aviation Administration) well on his new assignment as the FAA’s Senior Representative for Southeast Asia in Singapore. Mr. Downing will be replacing another ...READ MORE »
May 3, 2019
From left: Howard Stone (MFP 19), Professor Tadashi Anno, Professor Kazuhiro Maeshima, and Professor Daisaku Higashi of Sophia University
Alumni Fellow Howard Stone (MFP 19) recently met with three professors from Tokyo’s Sophia University while they were visiting Washington, DC. Howard completed a placement at Sophia during his Fellowship year and has maintained relationships with several ...READ MORE »
April 11, 2019
Left to Right: Takayuki Kawai, (Head, Strategic Planning and Industrial Promotion Div., JAXA); Michael Fletcher (MFP 21), Hiroyuki Iwamoto (Director, Business Development and Industrial Relations Dept., JAXA); Hiroshi Nakayama (Associate Senior Administrator, Strategic Planning and Industrial Promotion Div., JAXA)
Drawing on his Fellowship experience, Michael Fletcher (MFP 21) recently helped organize a workshop at NASA’s Ames Research Center in ...READ MORE »
April 11, 2019
Last week, the 23rd class of Mansfield Fellows visited Fleet Activities Yokosuka for a tour of the naval base. Captain Jeffrey Kim, an Alumni Fellow (MFP 20) and commander of the base, met with MFP 23 to discuss the role of the U.S.-Japan security alliance, and how his experience with the Fellowship Program has helped him in his ...READ MORE »
April 11, 2019
On March 28, the Mansfield Foundation hosted the first in a new series of round table discussions among Alumni Fellows of the Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program and representatives from the Embassy of Japan. Minister Takeshi Komoto, seconded from Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), was joined by colleagues from the embassy’s economics section for ...READ MORE »
December 20, 2018
On December 13, the Mansfield Foundation held end of year parties in both Washington, D.C. and Tokyo as we celebrated the ending of another year of programs, exchanges, and connections.
Our Washington bonenkai brought together many alumni of the Mansfield Fellowship Program, Corporate Friends of Mansfield, U.S.-Japan Network for the Future participants, and other members of the Mansfield network. We were ...READ MORE »
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