Building the relationships that make social innovation possible.

Building the relationships that make social innovation possible.

JUSSIN exists to connect courageous leaders across Japan and the United States, creating the relationships, trust, and collaboration needed to tackle our most pressing shared challenges.

JUSSIN exists to connect courageous leaders across Japan and the United States, creating the relationships, trust, and collaboration needed to tackle our most pressing shared challenges.

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The Moment

Why We Exist

Why We Exist

Japan and the United States are navigating remarkably similar social challenges. From ageing populations and declining social trust to rural revitalisation and workforce transformation, leaders in both countries are asking many of the same questions.

Yet while the challenges are shared, opportunities to learn from one another remain rare.

JUSSIN was created to bridge that gap, fostering long-term collaboration between leaders who might never otherwise meet.

Our Mission

We envision a future where cross-border collaboration becomes the norm, and where the partnership between Japan and the United States demonstrates how shared challenges can be solved through shared learning.

We envision a future where cross-border collaboration becomes the norm, and where the partnership between Japan and the United States demonstrates how shared challenges can be solved through shared learning.
Our Vision

JUSSIN is the bilateral catalyst for social innovation. We curate courageous leaders, cultivate unlikely collaboration, and catalyse bold ideas into breakthroughs neither Japan nor the United States could achieve alone.

JUSSIN is the bilateral catalyst for social innovation. We curate courageous leaders, cultivate unlikely collaboration, and catalyse bold ideas into breakthroughs neither Japan nor the United States could achieve alone.
Our Story

A Bus Ride To Innovation

A Bus Ride To Innovation

JUSSIN began on a bus during the 2024 US–Japan Leadership Program in Seattle, when Cosmo Fujiyama Ghaznavi and Daichi Konuma discovered they were wrestling with remarkably similar leadership challenges despite working an ocean apart.

That conversation sparked a simple question:

What if more leaders in both countries could learn from, lean on, and build alongside one another?

With support from ETIC, JANP, and the US–Japan Foundation, that question became a pilot. The pilot became a growing network of leaders committed to solving shared challenges through collaboration.

Today, JUSSIN continues to build the relationships that make cross-border social innovation possible.

Our Role

We are hopeful practitioners

We are hopeful practitioners

The Japanese and U.S. social sectors have developed along very different paths, with distinct histories, structures, and funding models. Those differences are not barriers—they are opportunities.

JUSSIN creates the infrastructure that enables leaders to exchange ideas, challenge assumptions, and build solutions together.

We strengthen collaboration across three dimensions:

Between Countries

Connecting two social sectors whose differences create new opportunities for innovation.

Between Leaders

Building trusted relationships that strengthen leadership, resilience, and peer learning.

Between Ideas and the World

Supporting promising collaborations as they evolve into real experiments with lasting impact.

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Every connection starts somewhere

Every connection starts somewhere

The strongest networks are built one conversation at a time. Reach out to explore opportunities to collaborate, support the network, or learn more about JUSSIN.

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