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JAPAN ATOMIC INDUSTRIAL FORUM (JAIF). The Japan Atomic
Industrial Forum was created by Japan’s atomic energy industry in
March 1956 to serve as a non-governmental and non-profit organization
that would promote the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy for
the benefit of the Japanese people. JAIF’s primary mission is to conduct
studies of nuclear energy, facilitate an exchange of knowledge
about nuclear energy, promote consensus on policy issues concerning
the nuclear energy industry, assist the government in the development
of nuclear energy policy, and utilize the plan and promotion of its policies.
JAIF encourages cooperation and communication between the
nuclear energy industry and other industries, local communities, universities,
the mass media and other groups involved in or related to
nuclear energy activities. JAIF believes that economically viable and
stable energy resources, particularly nuclear energy, are necessary for
the public’s welfare and the development of Japan’s national economy.
Each spring, JAIF hosts a three-day conference in Japan to provide
a forum for leaders in the global nuclear energy community to
meet and exchange opinions. The conference typically attracts more
than 1,000 participants from around the world. JAIF cooperates with
nuclear energy-related forums and organizations in the United States,
Great Britain, and more than 20 other, as part of its goal to promote
the peaceful and safe use of nuclear energy. On a global level, JAIF is
a co-founder of the International Nuclear Forum and is involved in the
campaign to prevent global warming.
JAPAN EXCHANGE AND TEACHING (JET) PROGRAM.
Started in 1987 by the Foreign Ministry of Japan, the JET Program
employs thousands of young American and other Western university
graduates as assistant teachers and instructors in public Japanese
schools for one to three years.
JAPAN IS DIFFERENT ARGUMENT. After the end of World War II,
Americans and Japanese had more opportunities to get to know each
other. For the first decade or so after the war, the United States as a winner
and ruler in Japan during the occupation, by and large imposed
Western ways of thinking and values on Japan, firmly believing that
these are universal values. Naturally, Americans emphasized the foreignness
of Japanese culture and urged Japan to adopt Western culture
as rapidly and as much as possible. The representative work of this era