Japan-America Society of Washington DC Mourns The Passing of Former President Carl Green

Mr. Green enjoyed a long and prominent career as an expert in international trade, law, and economics with special focus on Japan. Mr. Green, who was known for his gentle, modest demeanor and wonderful sense of humor, served as mentor to many of the current generation of American “Japan hands.”

Through his professional career, Mr. Green served as Representative of the Ford Foundation, Japan Office, and later as Senior Representative of Hitachi’s Corporate Office in Washington DC. Mr. Green, who held a Bachelor’s degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University (1961) and a J.D from Yale Law School (1965), began his career with Harvard University Knox Travelling Fellowship, which led to a budding career in journalism, publishing in the Financial Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, The Far Eastern Economic Review, and other publications.

Mr. Green accepted a position as a lawyer with Baker & McKenzie, which ultimately led to a position at the Ford Foundation where Mr. Green set up and ran a Ford Foundation representative office in Japan. Mr. Green was the Founding Director of the Eastern Asian Legal Studies Center at Georgetown, before moving to Hitachi where he served as advisor, and subsequently senior advisor, between the years 1998-2016.

At Hitachi, Mr. Green was a driving force behind the Council on Foreign Relations’ International Affairs Fellowship in Japan, which sends mid-career American professionals in a variety of fields to Japan for 3-12 months of research and relationship-building. The “Hitachi Fellowship” has helped advance the careers of many of today’s top American thought-leaders on Japan and the US-Japan relationship.

Mr. Green Retired in 2016, and in 2018 the Government of Japan awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.

About the Japan-America Society of Washington DC

The Japan-America Society of Washington DC is a 501(c)(3) educational and cultural non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening the relationship between Japan and the U.S. at the grassroots public diplomacy level. Our programming aims to bring Japanese and American people closer together in the Nation’s Capital area.

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