May 3, 2019
MFP 23 Fellows learn about Toyota’s design and assembly process at the company’s Motomachi Plant.
The twenty-third class of Mike Mansfield Fellows made their way to Nagoya and Osaka last month, where they were hosted by Corporate Friends of Mansfield Toyota and Panasonic. The companies have been long-time partners with the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation and the Fellowship. ...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 ...READ MORE »
March 28, 2019
On March 22, Mansfield Fellow Ian Morrison spoke at a seminar co-hosted by the Mansfield Foundation and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). At the event, titled “How Increased Natural Disasters are Forcing Weather Agencies to Evolve,” Mr. Morrison drew from his 15 years of experience with the U.S. National ...READ MORE »
March 21, 2019
Earlier this month, Mansfield Fellows Richard Banh and Michele Tempel participated in a week-long placement with Panasonic Corporation in Japan. The Fellows learned about non-grid and ecologically friendly solutions to energy constraints in Japan, visited Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town (pictured above), and learned about how the ...READ MORE »
March 7, 2019
On March 5, Mansfield Fellow Tony Nakanishi spoke in Tokyo about nuclear regulatory policies in the United States. Nakanishi, a risk analyst for the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Office of New Reactors, provided an overview of risk-informed, performance based regulations and reactor oversight in the United States, discussing how these processes have benefited ...READ MORE »
February 28, 2019
The twenty-fourth class of Mansfield Fellows are in Washington, DC this week for discussions and orientation sessions ahead of the start of their program in July.
The incoming Fellows met with Foundation staff from the Washington, Missoula, and Tokyo offices, as well as representatives from Japan’s National Personnel Authority (NPA). The Mansfield Foundation ...READ MORE »
February 21, 2019
Gunnery Sergeant Courtney Yountz (USMC), a member of the newly-announced twenty fourth class of Mansfield Fellows, was recently featured in CHIPS, the Department of the Navy’s IT magazine.
Gunnery Sergeant Yountz is a Strategic Electromagnetic Spectrum Manager attached to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit and is the first enlisted Marine to participate in the ...READ MORE »
February 21, 2019
Heather Ward (MFP 23) details USAID’s development assistance policy in the Indo-Pacific
Yesterday, February 20, current Mansfield Fellow Heather Ward, an International Cooperation Specialist at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), spoke at a public event in Tokyo hosted by the Mansfield Foundation and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies ...READ MORE »
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