{"id":59710,"date":"2025-09-23T00:28:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T00:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=59710"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:47:24","slug":"welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Our New Members! (September 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DC &amp; Vicinity<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Frank Minamino (Vienna, VA)<br>Agent &amp; Pacific Rim Director, William Morris Endeavor &amp; Driveline Baseball<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Byron Muhlenberg (Alexandria, VA)<br>Foreign Area Officer Fellow, United States Air Force<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Miho Sakuma (Washington, DC)<br>Founding Partner, Q Partners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hawaii<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Karey Kapoi (Kahului, HI)<br>CEO, Karey Kapoi LLC<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jackson Sayama (Honolulu, HI)<br>Hawaii State House Representative, Hawaii State Legislature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Japan<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mayumi Jones (Tokyo, Japan)<br>Partner, Japan Renewable Energy Business Association<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sayaka Kawatake (Tokyo, Japan)<br>Senior Consultant, Ashton Consulting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lea LeBlanc (Tokyo, Japan)<br>Membership Services Manager, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paul Lee (Tokyo, Japan)<br>Counsel, Davis Polk &amp; Wardwell LLP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Will Tian (Tokyo, Japan)<br>Client Delivery Lead, Kraken Technologies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Midwest<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kris Gorospe (Chicago, IL)<br>Senior Project Manager, METIS Design LLC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mountain<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Joshua Jensen (Provo, UT)<br>Foreign Currency Strategy Associate, Corpay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Northern California<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ayako Lainez (Campbell, CA)<br>Consultant, OMOTO Consulting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gabriel Okamoto (Sacramento, CA)<br>Fellow for Salesforce, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NY &amp; Vicinity<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ginger Choy (Long Island City, NY)<br>Executive Director, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Foundation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kofi Bazzell-Smith (Rochester, NY)<br>Future Faculty Fellow, Rochester Institute of Technology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>New England<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Naomi Garland (Boston, MA)<br>Independent Advisor, Healthcare Technology &amp; Surgical Innovation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pacific Northwest<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chris Emura (Bellevue, WA)<br>Executive Director, The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Southern California &amp; Southwest<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Curtis Kaneshiro (Los Angeles, CA)<br>Principal\/Founder, CTK Marketing Solutions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alison Keiko Harsch (San Diego, CA)<br>Instructor, Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC &amp; Vicinity Hawaii Japan Midwest Mountain Northern California NY &amp; Vicinity New England Pacific Northwest Southern California &amp; Southwest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59710","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! (September 2025) - U.S.-Japan Council<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ja_JP\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Welcome to Our New Members! (September 2025) - U.S.-Japan Council\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"DC &amp; Vicinity Hawaii Japan Midwest Mountain Northern California NY &amp; Vicinity New England Pacific Northwest Southern California &amp; Southwest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"U.S.-Japan Council\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-26T09:47:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/\",\"name\":\"Welcome to Our New Members! (September 2025) - U.S.-Japan Council\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-23T00:28:54+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-26T09:47:24+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"ja\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Welcome to Our New Members! (September 2025)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/\",\"name\":\"U.S.-Japan Council\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"ja\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Welcome to Our New Members! (September 2025) - U.S.-Japan Council","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/","og_locale":"ja_JP","og_type":"article","og_title":"Welcome to Our New Members! (September 2025) - U.S.-Japan Council","og_description":"DC &amp; Vicinity Hawaii Japan Midwest Mountain Northern California NY &amp; Vicinity New England Pacific Northwest Southern California &amp; Southwest","og_url":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/","og_site_name":"U.S.-Japan Council","article_modified_time":"2025-09-26T09:47:24+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/","url":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/","name":"Welcome to Our New Members! (September 2025) - U.S.-Japan Council","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/#website"},"datePublished":"2025-09-23T00:28:54+00:00","dateModified":"2025-09-26T09:47:24+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"ja","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-september-2025\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"\u30e1\u30c7\u30a3\u30a2","item":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Welcome to Our New Members! (September 2025)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/","name":"U.S.-Japan Council","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"ja"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/59710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/59710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59821,"href":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/59710\/revisions\/59821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}