2022 Spring Conferment of Decoration - Secretary-General Paige Cottingham-Streater

2022/4/29

Embassy of Japan
Press Release
April 29, 2022

2022 Spring Conferment of Decoration
Secretary-General Paige Cottingham-Streater

On April 29, 2022 (Japan Time), the Government of Japan announced the foreign recipients of the 2022 Spring Imperial Decorations. Paige Cottingham-Streater, Secretary-General of the United States-Japan Conference on Cultural & Educational Interchange (CULCON) and Executive Director of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, is among this year’s foreign recipients. In recognition of her contributions to the promotion of people-to-people exchanges and mutual understanding between Japan and the United States, she will receive the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon.

DECORATION: The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
SERVICE: Contributed to the promotion of people-to-people exchanges and mutual understanding between Japan and the United States
NAME: Paige Cottingham-Streater
MAJOR TITLES:
- Secretary-General of the United States-Japan Conference on Cultural & Educational Interchange and Executive Director of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission
- ADDRESS (NATIONALITY): Washington D.C. (United States of America)

SUMMARY OF CONTRIBUTIONS

Paige Cottingham-Streater has made significant contributions to the promotion of people-to-people exchanges and mutual understanding between Japan and the United States as Executive Director of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission and Secretary-General of the United States-Japan Conference on Cultural & Educational Interchange. In addition, she has promoted exchange between Japan and the US as supervisor of the Mansfield Fellowship Program and in organizing Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET) alumni and founding the JET Alumni Association in the USA.

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