Welcome to Our New Members! (November 2025)

DC & Vicinity

Daizo Kosa (Washington, DC)
General Manager and Chief Corporate Representative, NTT Washington DC Representative Office

Hawaii

Max Barker (Honolulu, HI)
Student, University of California, Berkeley

Marisa Escalante (Honolulu, HI)
Director of Events and Special Projects, Chamber of Commerce Hawaii

Yunji de Nies (Honolulu, HI)
Journalist, Hawaii News Now

Laurie Rubin (Mililani, HI)
Co-Artistic Director, Ohana Arts

Jenny Taira (Mililani, HI)
Executive & Co-Artistic Director, Ohana Arts

Tiffany Yajima (Honolulu, HI)
Partner, SanHi Government Strategies

Japan

Governor Ryuta Ibaragi (Okayama, Japan)
Governor of Okayama Prefecture, Okayama Prefectural Government

Marc Lefkowitz (Tokyo, Japan)
CEO, Left Field Advisors

David Michels (Tokyo, Japan)
Japan Representative, Bain & Company Japan Inc.

Masashi Oka (Tokyo, Japan)
Global Advisory Council Member, Bain & Company Japan Inc.

Christian Park (Tokyo, Japan)
CEO, UNCHAIN Inc.

Kirara Tsutsui (Tokyo, Japan)
Vice President, MPower Partners

Midwest

Danielle Sugano (Chicago, IL)
Financial Analyst, Goldman Sachs

NY & Vicinity

Carolina Alonso (New York, NY)
Associate, Baker & Hostetler LLP

Sarah Fitts (New York, NY)
Partner, ArentFox Schiff

Satoshi Miura (New York, NY)
President, JETRO New York

Midori Sato (New York, NY)
CEO, Brown Sugar 1st Inc.

New England

Masaki Nakamura (Cambridge, MA)
Founder & CEO, NPO EdFuture

Southeast

Yuto Yagi (Atlanta, GA)
Graduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology

Southern California & Southwest

Travis Fujita (Santa Monica, CA)
General Manager, BEAMS America

Fujihiko Hayashi (Coppell, TX)
Director for Infrastructure Business, Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.

Aya McCarthy (Santa Monica, CA)
Mobility Insurance Specialist, Sompo Digital Lab

Yoshimi Iyadomi Shinohara (Santa Monica, CA)
Co-Founder, Data and Design Institute at Harvard Business School
Chair, Shinohara Foundation

Chihiro Shinzaki (Plano, TX)
CEO, JPEX America, Inc.