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(May 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are pleased to welcome the following new members to the Council (joined in May 2025):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hawaii<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Liann Ebesugawa<\/strong> (Honolulu, HI)<br>Associate General Counsel, Hawaiian Electric Industries<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ryne Umemoto<\/strong> (Honolulu, HI)<br>Associate Financial Advisor, Darrow Wealth Group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Haruki Kato<\/strong> (Gifu, Japan)<br>Administrative Management Assistant, Japantown Task Force<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hidekazu Oki<\/strong> (Tokyo, Japan)<br>Senior Security Engineer, Woven by Toyota, Inc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Hiroshi Takahashi<\/strong> (Hiroshima, Japan)<br>Director, Kakeru Legal Office<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tomohiro Yamazaki<\/strong> (Tokyo, Japan)<br>CEO, earthsolar, Inc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New England<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Raymond Hunt <\/strong>(Boston, MA)<br>Private Equity Associate, TA Associates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New York &amp; Vicinity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Akiko Imai <\/strong>(New York, NY)<br>Global Head of New Sales, Virtu Financial <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Charles Neumann<\/strong> (New York, NY)<br>Political Researcher, Consulate General of Japan in New York<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pacific <strong>Northwest<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Joshua Ishibashi <\/strong>(Mill Creek, WA)<br>Construction Program Manager, American Bridge Company<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Eric Kawabata <\/strong>(Seattle, WA)<br>Senior Sustainability Manager, International Public Policy, Amazon<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Michael Rawding <\/strong>(Seattle, WA)<br>Founding Partner, GeoFusion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Southern CA &amp; Southwest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Kyoko Adachi<\/strong> (Long Beach, CA)<br>Former Strategy Director, EssenceMediacom<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, DC<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>&amp; Vicinity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Kyomi Cabral<\/strong> (Arlington, VA)<br>Delivery Analyst, Accenture Federal Services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Neal Murata<\/strong> (Washington, DC)<br>Deputy Director for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kentaro Orita <\/strong>(Washington, DC)<br>Counsellor, Embassy of Japan in the USA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to welcome the following new members to the Council (joined in May 2025): Hawaii Japan New England New York &amp; Vicinity Pacific Northwest Southern CA &amp; Southwest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55675","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Welcome to Our New Members! 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