CIC's  aim  is  to  create not just  a single Japan study program,  its goal  is  much more
ambitious.   On the broader scale,  CIC is the catalyst  for forming  partnerships between Japanese
and  American colleges  and  universities  of  all  sizes.   Schools  can choose  the extent of the
relationship  that  CIC  will  help  establish  between  them.    In  building  such  sister-school
relationships,  CIC  wishes  to  cultivate  better  and stronger relations between  the educational
institutions of both countries.                                                                    
	CIC starts the relationship at the basic level of providing compiled institutional data and
information  culled  from  surveys  and  conferences  conducted   on  campuses  in  which  academic
interests are explored for mutual exchange.                                                        
	Many Americans feel a deep-seated responsibility to get to know their neighbors to the east
more intimately.   The best opportunities  to study Japanese  culture firsthand are  to be found in
Kyoto, more than any place else in Japan.                                                          

	CIC  ambitiously  pursues  projects  in  four different spheres  of influence in relation  to
international education:                                                                             
			1) Inbound Study projects                                                    
			2) Outbound Study Projects                                                   
			3) International Educational and Cultural Educational                        
			   programs                                                                  
			4) International Educational Partnership Development                         

	The  inbound  programs  are  developed  through  CIC  for  study in Japan,  while  the  other
outbound  projects  are  for  study  programs in  other countries.   CIC's  educational and  cultural
programs  not only help  teach  students  language,  but  emphasize  history  and  tradition  through
experience and interaction between people.   CIC sends groups of musician,  artists and athletes,  as
well  as  people  versed  in  traditional accomplishments of  Japan  and  introduces  them  in  other
countries.                                                                                           
	CIC's final specialty is the cultivation of mutually beneficial relationships between schools
in the US and Japan.   CIC  has  been  instrumental in creating dozens of sister-school relationships
since it started the process in 1979.