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Company Japan, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Midwest<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Kanako Horii (Hoffman Estates, IL)<br>Relationship Manager, BMO Bank<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Takayuki Ono (Chicago, IL)<br>Partner, Sidley Austin LLP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">NY &amp; Vicinity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Maya Uchima (Sparta, NJ)<br>Partner, Broadfield US LLP<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Texas &amp; Vicinity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Eiichi Tatsumi (Houston, TX)<br>Head of US Business, RENOVA, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Southeast<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Heather Rangel (Tampa, FL)<br>Partner, Deloitte USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D.C. &amp; Vicinity Eri Furukawa (Washington, D.C.)Director, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) Fiona Maylath-Bryant (Washington, D.C.)Master\u2019s Student, University of Colorado Boulder Japan Riko Isaka (Tokyo, Japan)Public Officer, Japan Ministry of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61829","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 (January 2026) - 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-january-2026\/\" \/>\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 (January 2026) - U.S.-Japan Council\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"D.C. &amp; 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