The Business Advisory Board (BAB) is a group of Japanese business leaders with experience in the United States, and American senior business leaders working in Japan, who are also familiar with the work of USJC. Under the leadership of Mr. Masaaki Tanaka, Vice Chair of the USJC Board of Councilors, BAB continues to be successful.
Links to each of the BABs can be found below:
Business Advisory Board 2026
- Thirty-Eigth Business Advisory Board (Featured Speaker: Dr. Koshin Sekimizu) – January 29
Business Advisory Board 2025
- Thirty-Seventh Business Advisory Board (Featured Speaker: David Ha) – August 28
- Thirty-Sixth Business Advisory Board (Featured Speaker: Dr. Gerald Curtis) – May 21
- Thirty-Fifth Business Advisory Board (Featured Speaker: Mr. Hans Klemm) – January 30
Business Advisory Board 2024
- Thirty-Fourth Business Advisory Board (Featured Speaker: Mr. Mark Okada) – September 4
- Thirty-Third Business Advisory Board (Featured Speaker: Ms. Miki Tsusaka) – May 22
- Thirty-Second Business Advisory Board (Featured Speaker: Dr. Tomoaki Kato) – January 24
Business Advisory Board 2023
- Thirty-First Business Advisory Board (Featured Speaker: Mr. Shigeru Ariizumi) – August 30
- Thirtieth Business Advisory Board (Featured Speaker: Mr. Charles D. Lake II) – May 23
- Twenty-Ninth Business Advisory Board (Featured Speaker: Mr. Naoyuki Agawa) – February 22
Business Advisory Board 2022
- Twenty-Eighth Business Advisory Board (Featured Speaker: Mr. Taejun Shin) – August 19
- Twenty-Seventh Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Mr. Masayuki Sarumaru) – May 27
- Twenty-Sixth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Mr. Nobu Okada) – February 22
Business Advisory Board 2021
- Twenty-Fifth Business Advisory Board (Featured speakers: Ms. Kathy M. Matsui and Ms. Yumiko Murakami) – October 26
- Twenty-Fourth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Major General Leonard J. Kosinski) – July 12
- Twenty-Third Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Dr. Kenji Shibuya) – April 12
- Twenty-Second Business Advisory Board (Featured speakers: Dr. Robert A. Feldman and Dr. Mieko Nakabayashi) – February 9
Business Advisory Board 2020
- Twenty-First Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Mr. Masaaki Tanaka) – October 28
- Twentieth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Mr. Patrick Newell) – February 19
Business Advisory Board 2019
- Nineteenth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Mr. Ren Ito) – December 16
- Eighteenth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Dr. Koichi Wakata) – September 11
- Seventeenth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Dr. James Kuffner) – June 24
- Sixteenth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Dr. Sachiko Kuno) – March 13
Photos (2019)
Business Advisory Board 2018
- Fifteenth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Mr. Mike Kayamori) – September 11
- Fourteenth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae) – June 11
- Thirteenth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Ambassador William F. Hagerty) – March 14
Photos (2018)
Business Advisory Board 2017
- Twelfth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Mr. Daniel Tani) – December 4
- Eleventh Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Dr. Daniel I. Okimoto) – September 7
- Tenth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Mr. Heizo Takenaka) – June 22
- Ninth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Mr. Jesper Koll) – February 21
Photos (2017)
Business Advisory Board 2016
- Eighth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Ms. Hiroko Kuniya) – October 19
- Seventh Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Adm. Harry B. Harris, Jr.) – July 26
- Sixth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Dr. Gerald Curtis) – May 17
- Fifth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Mr. Michael D. Rhodin) – February 18
Photos (2016)
Business Advisory Board 2015
- Fourth Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Ms. Naoko Yamazaki) – October 1
- Third Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Dr. Shinya Yamanaka) – June 11
- Second Business Advisory Board (Featured speaker: Mr. Glen Fukushima) – March 19
Photos (2015)
Business Advisory Board 2014
- Inaugural BAB Reception (Featured speaker: Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki) – November 12