In addition to holding public programs on emerging policy issues between the United States and Japan, the Project arranges private briefings for the Washington policy community with scholars and experts working on cutting-edge issues. The Project is viewed as a trusted resource and we work closely with our contacts in Congress, USTR, State, Commerce, Treasury, Justice, Defense, FTC, ITC, OMB, FCC, NEC, NSC, Federal Reserve, IMF and other government agencies to arrange appropriate meetings with visiting scholars and experts. Topics for these private discussions have included Japanese antitrust, regulatory reform, bureaucratic change, telecommunications, banking, and security. The Project also maintains and updates regularly an extensive database of Washington governmental, think tank, and media professionals whose work concerns contemporary Japan and Northeast Asia.

The proceedings from a number of our conferences have become popular reference books throughout the U.S. government. Our work on Japanese intellectual property has led to requests from the Department of Commerce to write a Guide to the Japanese Patent System (1995) and the U.S. Patent Office to hold a conference on Asian intellectual property (1997). Our newsletters have also been distributed, by request, throughout the policy community. The Japan Access Alert Bulletin on Asian Values is regularly distributed to students at the State Department's Foreign Service Institute.

The Asia Policy Calendar (APC) & the Asia Policy Weekly (APW) (formerly the Japan Washington Watch (JWW) A & B), twice weekly e-mail reports, were designed in 1997 to provide the Japan/Northeast Asia policy-interested community, especially outside Washington, with a snapshot of the news events, hearings, meetings, reports, and editorials that might concern a Washington policymaker. The APC & APW are provided only to members and selected policymakers and has quickly become our most popular product.