Japanese Agency of Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) Meeting. Photo courtesy of WHOI and JAMSTEC.
Scientific co-operation between the United States and Japan is of course not only between individuals on the personal level as exhibited here by the scientists of MBL and WHOI. Other places and programs, including Friday Harbor Lab or the University of Washington (See E.S. Morse Institute), have entered into co-operative agreements on the institutional level including, among many more:
The Okinawa Institute of Science. Photo courtesy of MBL and Japanese Agency of Marine-Earth Science and Technology.