Kansai American Center brings in experts from the United States for speaker programs (lecture meetings and seminars) and other information activities in such fields as politics, economics, society, culture, the environment and U.S.-Japan relations.

We arrange such programs to encourage free and frank exchanges of views on issues of common interest for both the U.S. and Japan. The goal is to promote better and more friendly relations between the two nations through mutual understanding.

Although only select groups of people are generally invited to participate in our programs, we do offer some programs open to general audiences, in order to broaden our international outreach.

April 24, 2008 Orr and Fussner discussed "U.S. Presidential Election" at the Kansai American Center.

March 6 - 8, 2008 Kansai American Center Reference Service participated in the Business Information Fair at Nakanoshima Kansai American Center Referece Service participated in the Business Information Fair at Nakanoshima and promoted reference and outreach services.

March 4, 2008 Ms. Sommers Pierce, Information Resource Officer at American Embassy, Tokyo, spoke on "The Library Profession in the United States" at the Kansai American Center.

February 7, 2008 McGann presented "American Think Tanks" at the Kansai American Center.

January 31, 2008 Kamphausen discussed "The Rise of Chinese Military" at the Kansai American Center.

Social Venture Capital:
Building and Sustaining Social Entrepreneurship
Winter 2008

Kansai American Center and Kansai NPO Alliance co-sponsored a lecture program on "Social Venture Capital: Building and Sustaining Social Entrepreneurship." Ms. Clara Miller, President & CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund presented the lecture. The article on this program appeared in the NPO Journal Vol. 20, published by Kansai NPO Alliance (available only in Japanese).