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JCIE/USA is the North American affiliate of JCIE/Japan, one of the few truly independent think tanks in the field of international affairs in Japan
- ↑ Seiji Maehara (22 February 2011). "Speech transcript". Dinner on the Occasion of New Shimoda Conference . Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Japan. Retrieved 20 March 2011.
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They also collected money for the Japan Society and Japan Center for International Exchange, which are also leading fundraising efforts... ...what organizers say are the three best Web sites for donations -- JCIE.org/earthquake, save-the-children.org and japansociety.org/earthquake.
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