---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 2901"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "2901"
heading: "Congressional statement of findings and declaration of purpose"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/2901"
units:
  - "Chapter 44 — Japan-United States Friendship"
---

# §2901. Congressional statement of findings and declaration of purpose

- (a) The Congress hereby finds that—
  - (1) the post-World War II evolution of the relationship between Japan and the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) to peacetime friendship and partnership is one of the most significant developments of the postwar period;
  - (2) the [Agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) Between Japan and the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) of America Concerning the Ryukyu Islands and the Daito Islands, signed at Washington and Tokyo on June 17, 1971, is a major achievement and symbol of the new relationship between the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and Japan; and
  - (3) the continuation of close [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1)-Japan friendship and cooperation will make a vital contribution to the prospects for peace, prosperity, and security in Asia and the world.
- (b) It is therefore the purpose of this chapter to provide for the use of an amount equal to a part of the total sum payable by Japan to the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) in connection with the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese administration and the remaining [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9) of the amount set aside in 1962 for educational and cultural exchange with Japan (known as the G.A.R.I.O.A. Account) to [aid](/usc/22/2421e.md?p=1) education and culture at the highest level in order to enhance reciprocal people-to-people understanding and to support the close friendship and mutuality of interests between the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) and Japan.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–118, § 2, Oct. 20, 1975, 89 Stat. 603.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Short Title

Pub. L. 94–118, § 1, Oct. 20, 1975, 89 Stat. 603, provided: “That this Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘Japan-United States Friendship Act’.”