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Organization's Own Description:
The Commission is an independent federal agency that provides support for training and information to help prepare Americans to better meet the challenges and opportunities in the US-Japan relationship.
The Commission receives no funds from general revenues from the US budget.
The Commission operates entirely from the interest earnings of the Japan-United States Friendship Trust Fund, which originated from payments by the Japanese government for US assistance. These funds remain in the US Treasury in a separate account. Congress established the Commission to manage the Fund.
The Commission’s enabling legislation allows the Commission to accept gifts and in-kind contributions, which it may disperse at its own discretion within its approved budget authority.
Decisions on the expenditure of the Commission’s earnings are made by a board of eighteen commissioners — nine private citizens and nine US government officials — who meet annually to consider all grant proposals that come to it. Among the government officials are four Members of Congress, bipartisan representation from the Senate and the House of Representatives, who serve in a non-voting capacity.
By statute, the Members of the House of Representatives who serve on the Commission board are appointed by the Speaker of the House per 22 USC §2903 (a) (2).
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