Global Organizations
by Region
East Asia
University of Washington
The Department
of Asian Languages and Literature offers instruction in the principal
languages and literatures of Asia, including East, Southeast, Central,
and South Asia. Emphasis is placed on the roles of these languages
within the cultures they serve as well as on linguistic, textual, and
literary analysis. The department offers undergraduate degrees in Chinese,
Japanese, Korean, and South Asian languages and literature, and graduate
degree programs in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, South Asian, and Buddhist
Studies.
The
China Studies Program at the University of Washington provides
a broad understanding of the Chinese people and their culture, historical
development, and contemporary issues. Language learning and facility
are a core element of the program of study.
The
East Asia Resource Center at the Jackson School of International
Studies serves as a comprehensive center to advance knowledge of China,
Japan, and Korea through undergraduate, graduate, and professional
instructional programs, faculty research, the East Asia Library, and
outreach programs for the larger community. The Center is currently
a federally funded and designated National Resource Center.
East
Asia Studies Library
The collection covers resources in the humanities
and social sciences dealing with two of the following areas: China
(including Taiwan and Macao), Japan, and Korea (including both South
and North Koreas). The collection is strong in all areas of the social
sciences and humanities.
Economics
Professor Kar-Yiu Wong
The home page features information on Asia
and Economics including pages entitled; the Asia Crisis, WTO and China,
upcoming conferences and Research in International Economics.
Project
for Critical Asian Studies
The Forum on Trauma, History, and "Asia" is
the initiative of the Project for Critical Asian Studies, a Rockefeller
Foundation grant-funded four-year program(2002-2006) hosted by the
Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington.
Japan Studies
Outreach
Japan Studies is an interdisciplinary program that provides
concentrated Japanese language and area training. The core curriculum
is offered through the Jackson School and is supplemented by numerous
classes on Japan in economics, political science, history, Asian languages
and literature, art and art history, law, and business.
Korea
Studies Program
The University of Washington maintains one of
the oldest programs in the United States providing undergraduate and
graduate training in Korean studies in a variety of disciplines. Courses
are offered in Korean language, literature, history, social organization,
and politics.
The
UW-Sichuan Program
The University of Washington-Sichuan University
Program on Scientific, Engineering and Social Challenges to the Environment
in the US Pacific Northwest and Southwest China (the UW-Sichuan Program
for short) is a pilot project of the UW Worldwide Initiative. Launched
in Autumn 2000, UW-Sichuan Program, in collaboration with our partner
Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, currently focuses on five research
areas: biodiversity, water resources, forest ecology, environmentally-friendly
(eco-) materials, and human-environment interaction.
Trafficking & Human
Rights Resources
In an attempt to create an information network
with other organizations working with victims of human trafficking,
the Women's Center has collected contact information from NGO's and
other organizations worldwide.
Seattle Area
Asian Counseling and
Referral Service (ACRS) is a nationally recognized non-profit
organization offering a broad array of human services and behavioral
health programs to Asian Pacific Americans in King County. ACRS is
the largest multi-service organization serving all the different Asian
Pacific American communities - immigrants, refugees and American born
- in the Pacific Northwest.
Consulate
General of Japan at Seattle
JET
Program
Sponsored by the Japanese Government, the Japan Exchange
and Teaching Program also known as the JET Program, invites young college
and university graduates to experience a year in Japan. Now in its
15th year, the JET Program is one of the longest and most successful
exchange programs between Japan and the United States.
PATH, Japanese
Encephalitis Project
PATH's JE Project will pave the way for
control of clinical JE and will help halt the devastating death and
disability JE causes. By adding JE vaccine to the roster of other vaccines
given to infants, we believe that clinical JE can be eliminated in
Asia and the Pacific.
The Washington
State China Relations Council
Founded in 1979 following the normalization
of diplomatic relations between the United States and China, is a private
and non-profit trade association dedicated to promoting stronger commercial,
educational, and cultural relations between the state of Washington
and the People's Republic of China. The Council is the oldest non-governmental
statewide trade association dealing specifically with China.
International
Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation (APEC) is the premier forum for facilitating
economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific
region. APEC is the only inter governmental grouping in the world operating
on the basis of non-binding commitments, open dialogue and equal respect
for the views of all participants. Unlike the WTO or other multilateral
trade bodies, APEC has no treaty obligations required of its participants.
Decisions made within APEC are reached by consensus and commitments
are undertaken on a voluntary basis.
Japanese
Government Scholarships
Since 1954, the Government of Japan has
been offering scholarships to foreign nationals from various countries
around the world to study in Japan. The Japanese Government offers
the following scholarships annually to U.S. citizens living in Washington,
Montana, and Northern Idaho through the Consulate-General of Japan
at Seattle.
Japan
Information Network
A
comprehensive database with information on virtually all aspects
of Japanese society. Categories include statistics,
regions and cities, Japan atlas, trends in Japan, virtual museum
and kids' web MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
National
Center for APEC
The mission of the National Center for APEC
is to generate and stimulate U.S. support for and participation in
the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organization with the
objective of liberalizing trade and investment in the region. Working
in close cooperation with the U.S. Coordinator for APEC and other
U.S. Government agencies, the Center encourages and facilitates broadly
based U.S. private sector involvement in the activities of APEC,
its Working Groups and other APEC-related bodies.
World
Bank, East Asia and the Pacific
The World Bank is working to support
more than 20 countries in the East Asia and Pacific region, which is
home to nearly 2 billion people. This diverse region includes Cambodia,
China, Fiji, Indonesia, Kiribati, Korea, the People's Democratic Republic
of Lao (Lao PDR), Malaysia, Marshall Islands, FS Micronesia, Mongolia,
Palau, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Thailand,
Timor-Leste, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Vietnam.
World Health Organization,
West Pacific Region, one of the six regions of the WHO-WPR, is
home to approximately 1.6 billion people, nearly one-third of the world's
population. It stretches over a vast area, from China in the north
and west, to New Zealand in the south, and French Polynesia in the
east. One of the most diverse of the WHO regions, the Western Pacific
constitutes some of the world's least developed countries as well as
the most rapidly emerging economies. It includes highly developed countries
such as Australia, Japan, New Zealand, the Republic of Korea and Singapore;
and fast growing economies such as China and Viet Nam.
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