MORE ABOUT THE NORTH CAROLINA JAPAN CENTER

Director: Francis A. Moyer provides many talents to the Japan Center, which are detailed in a short biographical sketch.

From October 2000 to July 2002, David S. Robinson, who is an attorney with considerable Japan experience,  served as Deputy Director.

Many people fondly remember our Director Emeritus John Sylvester.

Our current METI scholor/researcher in residence is Ms. Niko Kato

The Japan Center could not perform many of its important  functions without the generous support of our Corporate  Sponsors.

 The Center works with persons from many academic disciplines, business, industry, and the arts, and carries out programs spanning a broad spectrum of Japan related interests.

The Center is headquatered in a historic property in the newly expanded section of North Carolina Stat University's Centennial Campus.

The Board of Visitors are appointed from prominent American and Japanese in North Carolina who have a strong  interest in our two countries' relations.

The Academic Advisory Board counsels the Center on its academic programs and is composed of senior administrative and professors from NC State University and representatives  from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and  Duke University.

Associates of the Center have strong ties to the state,  impressive knowledge of Japan and its language, and well established position in their respective specialties.

Adjuncts are in the course of establishing their ties with Japan or their professional specialty, and have worked in  consonance with the aim of the Center.

Fellows participated in three major programs, 1981-83, to create a core of faculty in various disciplines who could interact in their research with Japan and teach about it.  The Fellows came primarily from NC State University with the third group drawn from public and private universities across the state.  They spent one semester conducting research in Japan in their fields, and are available for counsel, or as  speakers on their respective specialties in regard to Japan.