Welcome to Our New Members!

We are pleased to welcome the following new members to the Council:

Hawaii

  • Maya Hara (Wailuku, HI)
    Executive Director, Lahaina Jodo Mission
  • Brandon Hayashi (Honolulu, HI)
    Director of Beneficiary Partnerships, Blue Forest
  • Michelle Leon-Guerrero (Honolulu, HI)
    Chief Administrative Officer, Hawaiian Host Group
  • Tyson Miyake (Wailuku, HI)
    State Representative, State of Hawaii House of Representatives
  • Lauren Nahme (Honolulu, HI)
    Senior Vice President, Maui Recovery Effort, Hawai’i Community Foundation
  • Joseph Peters (Honolulu, HI)
    Junior Specialist, University of Hawai’i Manoa

Japan

  • Tsuyoshi Domoto (Tokyo, Japan)
    Founder & CEO, Akiya Air Co., Ltd.
  • Risa Hata (Tokyo, Japan)
    Student
  • James Hawrylak (Nagano, Japan)
    Investor Relations Consultant
  • Robert Hayashi (Tokyo, Japan)
    Senior Manager eCommerce Japan, Hilton
  • Kensuke Inoue (Tokyo, Japan)
    Special Counsel, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune
  • Andrew Nimmer (Tokyo, Japan)
    Founder & CEO, ScaleInsight K.K.
  • Atushi Usami (Tokyo, Japan)
    GTM Manager, Microsoft Japan
  • Yumako Yamazaki (Tokyo, Japan)
    Advisor, S&B Food Inc.

Midwest

  • Santa Ono (Ann Arbor, MI)
    President, University of Michigan
  • Chisato Sakamoto (Carmel, IN)
    Assistant Manager, ELSA LLC

New York & Vicinity

  • Yukina Chiba (New York, NY)
    PhD Candidate, The Rockefeller University
  • Frances Green (New York, NY)
    Partner, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
  • Linda Horiuchi (New York, NY)
    Global Director of Public Relations, Thoughtworks
  • Sayaka Nakano (New York, NY)
    Consultant, BCG
  • Shoichi Ohno (New York, NY)
    Managing Director, CFGI
  • Tomoko Omori (New York, NY)
    CEO, Katsu Zen USA
  • Bradley Smith (New Rochelle, NY)
    President & CEO, The Laurasian Institution

Northern California & Nevada

  • Karen Korematsu (San Francisco, CA)
    Founder and President, Fred T. Korematsu Institute
  • Marika Rosenfeld (Berkeley, CA)
    Undergraduate Student, University of California, Berkeley
  • Melvin Washington (San Francisco, CA)
    Executive Director, Japan Afro American Friendship Association (JAFA)

Southeast

  • Kiyoaki Kojima (Atlanta, GA)
    Partner, Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP

Southern California & Southwest 

  • Jake Kanai (El Segundo, CA)
    President, Takenaka Partners LLC

Texas & Vicinity

  • Lori Fremin (Katy, TX)
    President and General Manager, HC Manvel, Inc. and Haltermann Carless

Washington, DC & Vicinity

  • Leonard Kosinski (Fairfax, VA)
    Former Director of Logistics, The Joint Staff

If you are interested in connecting with any of the members listed above, please email the Membership team at [email protected].