JUSFC Staff Biographies
MARGARET MIHORI
Ms. Mihori is the Assistant Executive Director of the Japan-US Friendship Commission, a federal agency that provides grants for intellectual, cultural, artistic and educational exchange and research with Japan. She has been with the Agency since 1992.
From September, 1990 until September, 1992, Ms. Mihori was the Tokyo Representative of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center in Japan, a graduate research institute in East Asian affairs engaging policymakers, business executives, scholars and journalists in dialogue regarding issues central to U.S.-Japan relations. There she was responsible for promoting and maintaining fundraising activities as well as coordinating the Center's various research activities.
From March, 1989 through August, 1990, Ms. Mihori was Program Director of Piper Pacific International, a consulting firm facilitating defense-related technology cooperation between U.S. and Japanese firms.
Ms. Mihori received a Master of Arts degree in Japan Studies and International Economics at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Japanese Literature at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has worked at various Japanese media organizations including the Tokyo-Chunichi Shimbun and the Iwate-Nippo Newspaper in Morioka, Japan where she was a Reischauer intern conducting research on the Japanese educational system and various economic, political and social issues.
Ms. Mihori lives in Great Falls, Virginia with her husband and two daughters.
August, 2008
