Council of Advisors
*In Alphabetical Order by Last Name
| Tae Ashida | Fashion Designer |
| Mariko Bando | Chancellor, Showa Women's University |
| Chris Blackerby | COO, Astroscale Holdings, Inc. |
| Ken Chan Chien-Wei | Founder, CEO/CIO Patience Capital Group K.K. |
| Junko Chano | Executive Director, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation |
| Laurent Depus | Director, SMBC Trust Bank President, Escapade Japan |
| Royanne Doi | Outside Director, Gojo & Company Representative Director, US-Japan Council (Japan) |
| Amb. Ichiro Fujisaki | President, The America-Japan Society, Inc. Former Ambassador of Japan to the United States |
| Jim Hardin | Head of School, The American School in Japan |
| Yosuke Hariki | President, Office Hariki |
| Ernest Higa | Chairman & CEO, Higa Industries Co. Ltd |
| Maya Horii | Partner, Tokyo, McKinsey & Company |
| Masahide Kametaya | CEO, Progressive Corporation |
| Russell Kawahara | Partner, Atsumi & Sakai |
| Yasuhiro Kawamura | President, FRONTIER INTERNATIONAL INC. |
| Michael Khoo | President, WINE TO STYLE KK |
| Amb. Hans Klemm | Japan Representative, PhRMA Commissioner, Japan-U.S. Educational Commission U.S. Ambassador (ret) |
| Kosei Kobayashi | President & CEO, K.K. Holdings |
| Nobuko Kobayashi | Managing Director & Partner, EY-Parthenon |
| Akihiko Kubo | Managing Director/Representative Director, Tag Japan |
| Junichi Kurokoshi | Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP |
| Stephanie Lee | Community Volunteer |
| Mihoko Manabe | Associate Managing Director and Board Member, Moody’s Japan |
| Anthony Miller | Managing Director, PAG |
| Mieko Nakabayashi | Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences, Waseda University |
| Katsuya Natori | Attorney-at-Law, ITN Partners |
| Kevin Naylor | Vice President, Sales, en world group |
| Sam Ohta | President & Publisher, OHTA Publications |
| Nami Okubo | President, Preigio Inc. |
| Kazu Okuno | Community Volunteer |
| Kevin Riendeau | CEO, Anextere |
| Gen Sakai | Chief Operating Officer, Managing Director, Bank of America Member of the Board, BofA Securities Japan Co., Ltd. |
| Scott Sato | CEO, Tricor KK |
| David Slater | Sophia University |
| Peter Strydom | President, Amway Japan G.K. |
| Paul Tange | CEO & Senior Principal Architect, Tange Associates Asia |
| Haruko Tokura | Community Volunteer |
| Junko Tsuda | Executive Director, U.S.-Japan Council (Japan) |
| Yoko Wada | Community Volunteer |
| Karin Wellbrock | COO/Partner, Kay Group K.K. |
| Dave West | President, Asia Pacific, Japan, and Greater China, Cisco Systems |
[ Overseas Council of Advisers ]
| Heike Boeltzwig-Brown | Senior Research Associate & Program Developer, University of Massachusetts Boston |
| Neil Bush | Chairman, Points of Light Foundation |
| Deva Hirsch | Hands On Tokyo Founder & President, Emeritus |
| D. Steven Lin | Managing Partner, C2 Capital |
| Natalye Paquin | President & CEO, Points of Light Foundation |
| Jim Small | VP of Asia Pacific, Major League Baseball |
| Efrot Weiss | Community Volunteer |
| Marcus Wong | Partner, Global Mobility Services, PwC Tax Japan |