Winner of the $1 million Berggruen Prize for Philosophy & Culture, philosopher and literary critic Kojin Karatani was Terasaki Professor of U.S.-Japan Relations at UCLA in 2016–17.
Indra Levy of Stanford University has received the first Irene Hirano Inouye award from the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, which honors her contributions to Japanese studies as leader of the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies and as a scholar and mentor.
The Foreign Minister's Commendation is bestowed annually on outstanding organizations and individuals whose work in international fields has significantly promoted friendship between Japan and other countries.
ArcDR³ (Architecture and Urban Design for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience) is a global initiative that has invited 11 major universities from regions with recurring risks of natural disasters to participate by engaging in a collaborative research studio that pursues new strategies for risk-resilient environments across the Pacific Rim.
Associate professor of gender studies and history at UCLA, Traweek is a science and technology studies expert whose ethnographic, archival and theoretical work examines the cultural life of science and is informed by feminist epistemology. She is an associated faculty member of the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.
The MOU envisages cooperative and collaborative activities between JAL and the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, including visits and informal exchanges of faculty, scholars, administrators and students.
Miki Dezaki's directorial debut, “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue,” addresses the highly contentious debate in Japan and South Korea about comfort women during World War II.