Figshare data
U.S.-Japan Subnational Diplomacy
This dataset gathers a wide range of information about subnational partnerships and collaborations supporting U.S.-Japan Relations. Collected by Prof. Mary Alice Haddad and a team of undergraduate researchers during 2023, it includes information about: 382 sister/friendship cities, 15 sister/friendship state-prefectures, 33 MOUs, 83 City-NGO partnerships/collaborations, 24 Japanese business – US local community collaborations, 15 Japanese consulates in the United States, 100 NGOs promoting US-Japan relations, and US-Japan city partnership data from the Japanese Council of Local Authorities for International Relations.
Japan’s Post-3-11 Environmental NGOs
Names, place, establishment date and brief description of the “environmental protection” (環境保全）NPOs listed on Japan’s NPO Hiroba (https://www.npo-hiroba.or.jp/search/result.php) search engine as established between between March 11, 2011 and September 9, 2022. Name and description are in orginal Japanese. The name, description, prefecture, etc. have been translated into English. The characteristics/coding is in English.
City Climate Action
169 US Cities that have signed the Global Covanent for Climate and Energy. Things coded include population size, per capita income, partisanship (2020 election), city energy manager, presence of a university, ACEEE score, energy plan ambition.
