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§ 6101. Establishment of Fellowship Program
(a) Establishment
(1) There is hereby established the “Mike Mansfield Fellowship Program” pursuant to which the Director of the United States Information Agency will make grants, subject to the availability of appropriations, to the Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs to award fellowships to eligible United States citizens for periods of 2 years each (or, pursuant to section 6102(5)(C) of this title, for such shorter period of time as the Center may determine based on a Fellow’s level of proficiency in the Japanese language or knowledge of the political economy of Japan) as follows:
(A) During the first year each fellowship recipient will study the Japanese language as well as Japan’s political economy.
(B) During the second year each fellowship recipient will serve as a fellow in a parliamentary office, ministry, or other agency of the Government of Japan or, subject to the approval of the Center, a nongovernmental Japanese institution associated with the interests of the fellowship recipient, and the agency of the United States Government from which the fellow originated, consistent with the purposes of this chapter.
(2) Fellowships under this chapter may be known as “Mansfield Fellowships”, and individuals awarded such fellowships may be known as “Mansfield Fellows”.
(b) Eligibility of Center for grants
(c) International agreement
(d) Private sources
(e) Use of Federal facilities
(Pub. L. 103–236, title II, § 252, Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 428; Pub. L. 107–132, § 1(b), Jan. 16, 2002, 115 Stat. 2412.)