Table of Contents
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1 Message from the FUTI President
2 FUTI at a Glance 2007-2021
2 Report on the FUTI Global Leadership
Scholarship Programs
3 Roster of Global Leadership Scholarship
Recipients, 2021
3-4 Report on the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI
Scholarship Program
4-5 Roster of Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship
Recipients, 2021-2022
6-7 Status of FUTI Research Funds
7 Report from the FUTI Alumni Association
7-8 Fundraising Results of FY 2020-2021
9 Summary of Financial Statement FY 2020-2021
10 Report from the COO
10 FUTI Lecture Series
11 FY 2020-2021 List of Donors
12 FUTI Organization

Annual ReportMessage from the FUTI President
I am pleased to present you with the 2021 Annual Report.
Since its inception in 2007 under the leadership of inaugural Presidents Junji
Masuda and Hisashi Kobayashi, the Friends of UTokyo, Inc. (FUTI) has been
providing excellent opportunities to a number of highly talented students fromthe US and Japan through FUTI’s summer scholarships. Since 2015, Professor
Yamada, as the third FUTI President, further expanded the scope of FUTI’s
activities based on the generous contributions from the Ito Foundation U.S.A.,
which led to the launch of scholarships supporting mid- to long-term study abroad programs in 2016. Thesescholarships have undoubtedly made substantial impacts on the lives and early career development of outstanding
UTokyo students, as well as students of leading US universities in science, technology, arts and the humanities, as
potential next-generation leaders in the world. In October of 2019, I assumed office as the fourth President of FUTI,
and have been trying my best with FUTI Board, Advisory Committee, and Scholarship Committee members, as well as
officers in Administration, to promote the mission of FUTI.
Since February 2020, however, the rapid spread of the new coronavirus has significantly affected universities both inJapan and the US, leading to the cancellation of short-term summer programs and the switching of courses to virtual
lectures through Zoom. Some scholarship students were left with no choice but to attend courses virtually from Japan
as foreign students were prevented from the campuses of many universities in the US despite the fact that they wereadmitted to those universities. Consequently, FUTI’s Study Abroad programs had to make significant adjustments.
Nevertheless, our activities have continued through online symposia, seminars, panel discussions, webinars, and alumni
gatherings through the rapid and proactive use of Zoom.
After two full years of struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic, most universities in the US have already moved back to
in-person operations, and as a result, most of the short-term summer programs in the US will also resume this year.
Accordingly, FUTI’s programs will hopefully resume near normal operations. FUTI will also cooperate with the
UTokyo New York Office (UT NYO) to fulfill our missions.
As we have been witnessing, our world is facing many serious problems, e.g., natural disasters induced by climatechange, pandemic diseases, rise of autocracy weakening democracy and threatening war, increasing number of refugees,a widening gap between the wealthy and the poor, etc. Therefore, the cultivation of the next-generation leaders, who areresilient and can find solutions to these issues, is evermore essential for us.
I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to all those who have supported FUTI in its mission to foster the global
leaders of tomorrow and ask for your continued support.
Sincerely yours,
Iwao Ojima, President, FUTI
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FUTI at a Glance 2007-2021
Scholarships and Grants Awarded to Date

173

55
Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI
Scholarship Awards

FUTI Global
Leadership Awards

22
Grants to Universities

Funds Raised to Date

$743,000

6n7at6ions

Do eived
rec e fromt
to dalumniaIndividuals andGeneral Public$618,600

Total donations
received to date

Shintech, Inc.

$2,388,000$1,026,400

Ito Foundation U.S.A.

Report on the FUTI Global Leadership Scholarship Programs
With the financial resources received as donations from UTokyo alumni and corporate contributions, FUTI supports
short-term summer study abroad programs between UTokyo and universities in the US.
Continuing from the previous year, 2021 is also greatly affected by the coronavirus pandemic with universities on bothsides either canceling summer programs or changing them to an online format. There were applications from eight US
university students and five UTokyo students, and in the end a total of five students, one US student and four UTokyo
students, took online classes from home. FUTI awarded scholarships which covered the tuition and an additional$1,000. Although UTokyo did not charge tuition for their online programs, recipients attending summer online
programs at US universities were relieved since tuition was relatively expensive, ranging from $2,800 to $4,600.
With mid- to long-term study abroad programs being less affected by the pandemic and more students eager to moveon from the pandemic and study abroad, the FUTI Scholarship program also plans to focus its efforts on this category.
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Roster of Global Leadership Scholarship Recipients, 2021
* All information listed below are based on data collected at the time of application.

Shotaro Beppu

Satoru Kawashima

Sumiya Kuroda

University of Tokyo, Sophomore
Literature 1

University of Tokyo, Master 1st Year
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Department of Advanced Socialand International Studies

University of Tokyo, 5th year
Faculty of Medicine

UC Berkeley
Summer Session (online)

ICPSR Summer Program (online)

Harvard University
Summer Research Internship (online)

Hien Le

Hanjun SongHarvard University, Freshman
Faculty of Arts and Sciences

University of Tokyo, Senior
International Relations

UTSIP-Kashiwa (online)

Summer Session at
Yale University (online)

Report on the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship Program
Contribution to SocietyWith the fiscal resources provided by the Ito Foundation under the leadership of its president Masatoshi Ito, who is also thehonorary chairman of Seven & i Holdings, we are able to award scholarships to UTokyo students and alumni who demonstrate
the potential to contribute greatly to Japanese society. The scholarships are provided for mid- to long-term studies lasting one ormore semesters. Since the inception of the Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship in 2016, awards have been given mostly to
UTokyo students and alumni, including those who received their bachelor’s degree from another university and continued theirgraduate studies at UTokyo, or foreign students at UTokyo going to a US university to further their studies. In 2021, for the firsttime in the history of the Scholarship, support was awarded to a student who has received her master’s degree from Kyoto
University.

3The Status of the Scholarship Program in 2021
In contrast to the FUTI Global Leadership Award which supports short-term summer study, application numbers for the Ito
Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship, which supports mid- to long-term study, have been comparable to pre-pandemic levels andrebounded strongly from the decrease experienced in the previous year.
In 2021, there were 29 applications, of which 11 were selected. Of the 11, two recipients had reapplied after having already been
selected in the previous year but who could not avail of the study-abroad because of the pandemic. Although it remains to be seen
whether this is a trend or a unique characteristic of this year’s applications, of the 29 applications, 13 were in the Past Graduate
category (those who have graduated from UTokyo in the past) making it very competitive. Four were selected in this category, andof the four, three are qualified lawyers. Of these three, one is receiving support from their affiliated law firm, while the other two
are leaving their careers to challenge themselves to a new career and pursue study abroad.
Aside from the aforementioned recipients in the Past Graduate category, one recipient is pursuing a UTokyo-Columbia dual
master’s degree, two have completed their bachelor’s or master’s degree at UTokyo and are pursuing a higher degree, two UTokyo
PhD candidates are studying abroad to research specific topics, one is continuing his dual master’s degree at Harvard and MIT,and one mentioned above, is studying abroad after receiving her master’s degree from Kyoto University. In conclusion, we arepleased to report that this category of FUTI Scholarship is thriving despite the coronavirus pandemic.

Roster of Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship Recipients, 2021-2022* All information listed below are based on data collected at the time of application.

Manaka Hataoka
University of Tokyo, Senior
Department of Urban Engineering, Urban Planning Course
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design, Department of Landscape Architecture

Ryo Ikesu
University of Tokyo, Ph.D. 3rd Year
Department of Public Health at the Graduate School of Medicine
UCLA School of Public Health
Master in Epidemiology

Akihiko Izu
University of Tokyo, 2013
Law School
MIT Sloan School of Management

Yuxiu Lin
University of Tokyo, Master 1st Year
Graduate School of Public Policy, Public Management and International Relations
Columbia University
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Master of International Affairs

4Fumika Moriya
University of Tokyo, Ph.D. 1st Year
Department of Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Yuki Nakamura
University of Tokyo, 2014
Faculty of Law
Harvard University Law School

Tomohito Okuda
MIT Sloan School of Management/Harvard University,
John F. Kennedy School of Government Dual Degree Program 1st year
MIT Sloan School of Management/Harvard University,
John F. Kennedy School of Government Dual Degree Program 2nd year

Yui OmoriKyoto University, Master 2nd Year
Graduate School of Agriculture
North Carolina State University
College of Design, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning

Ayako Sakamoto
University of Tokyo, 2016
Graduate School of Engineering, Technology Management for Innovation
Harvard University Kennedy School
Master of Public Administration in International Development

Kohei Wachi
University of Tokyo, 2013
Faculty of Law
Stanford Law School
L.L.M. in Law, Science & Technology

Sadahisa Watanabe
University of Tokyo, Master 2nd Year
Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology/Division of European and American Studies
Washington University in St. Louis
Ph.D. program in Japanese & Comparative Literature

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Status of FUTI Research Funds
Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics: 10 Years of Global Research and Education Effort
Yasutomo J. Uemura, Professor of Physics, Columbia University
Based initially on support from the US NSF PIRE (Partnership for International Research and Education) program, a global
research and education program called “Frontiers of Condensed Matter Physics” (FCMP) was started at Columbia University in2011 and has since developed tolead collaborations with several institutions from the US, Canada, Japan, China and Europe. In
the summer of 2012, FUTI became a generous supporter of this program, helping to promote the participation of students andfaculty members from the University of Tokyo (UT) and other Japanese universities. For the period of Summer 2020 – 2021,
FUTI provided a grant to support travel expenses for UT and Columbia students to participate in FCMP activities, but due to
Covid travel restrictions, we could not organize in-person visits, and thus carried over the grant to the period of Summer 2021 –2022. In-person collaboration will resume in June 2022 at the Canadian accelerator facility TRIUMF in Vancouver. Considering
this situation, we would like to take this opportunity to report on FCMP activities and UT / FUTI involvement over the past ten
years.
Although Zoom online lectures became commonplace after Covid, FCMP had already been on a hybrid format since 11 years ago
with live in-person lectures given alongside recorded video broadcasts and simultaneous online course sharing, allowing the leading
guest researchers to give talks and hold pedagogical, historical and intuitive discussions which can be accessible even to entry-level
graduate student audiences. We further organized tours and workshops so that participating lecturers and students can interact
in-person together with other specialists at major accelerator facilities abroad. In-person and online activities at FCMP includelecture courses at Columbia, UT and Paris École Polytechnique (13 Semesters in 2011-22), associated tours (to New York in 2011,
to Tokyo/Kyoto in 2012), and workshops / conferences (in Beijing in 2014, Vancouver in 2015, Tokyo/JPARC in 2017, RomeFrascati in 2018, Virtual Conference in 2020, 2021). The photos show snaps from these FCMP workshop and tour activities.

For a few motivated student participants and alumni of the FCMP lectures, we have organized some involvement in international
collaborative research. Representative cases include:

6(a) Hakuto Suzuki (UT PhD 2015) joined FCMP tours and workshops in 2011-15, traveled to New York, Kyoto, andBeijing. He did his post-doc at MPI Stuttgart, and is now back at Tohoku University as an Assistant Prof., and has
published 2 PRB (Physical Review B) papers with FUTI’s support.
(b) Eteri Svanidze (Rice PhD 2016), joined FCMP in 2013, traveled to experiments and WS in Vancouver and Beijing,
published papers in Nature Communications (Ncomms) and PRX (Physical Review X), and is now a staff scientist at
MPI Dresden.
(c) Ben Frandsen (Columbia PhD 2016) joined FCMP in 2011-15, traveled to Vancouver, Beijing andTokyo, publishedin Ncomms, did postdoc at UC Berkeley, is now an Assistant Prof. at Brigham Young U.
(d) Kohei Matsuura (UT PhD 2020) joined FCMP in Paris (2017), traveled to Paris, Vancouver, Frascati, and is now an
Assistant Prof. of UT working on quantum computing. (e) Qi Sheng (Columbia PhD 2022) joined FCMP in 2017-22,
visiting Vancouver, Tokyo, and Tokai.
FCMP activities provided unique opportunities for thesis studies and career building of these young researchers. We have beenvery fortunate to be able to work with these excellent young scientists on collaborative studies of quantum magnets andunconventional superconductors supported by the generous FUTI grants during 2012-2022.

Report from the FUTI Alumni Association
I am Yuki Haba, the founding director of the FUTI Alumni Association (FAA). FAA started in 2019to support and connect 200+ FUTI alumni members worldwide. Despite the inevitable impact by theongoing pandemic, we have been able to co-host several events including “Exploring New Horizons in
Evolutionary Genomics -from Japan to the United States and Norway” by Professor Marie Saitou and“About Covid 19 Vaccinations” by Drs. Shohei Koide and Akiko Koide. We have also been sharing
relevant information using the FAA mailing list, continuing the new connections made in the past few
years. I had the privilege to attend a virtual party with current FUTI fellows again at the end of 2021
whereI enjoyed presentations made by the current fellows and I also gave a brief speech. I emphasizedthat the connections we create between the FUTI fellows, as well as that with the FUTI board
members, have the potential to be far more important than the financial support FUTI offers throughthe fellowship program. That being said, the real “passion” we exchange at in-person events is reallyirreplaceable, so we are hoping to host in-person events this year to fully nurture the connection andinteraction between FAA members and beyond.
Yuki Haba,
Princeton University, Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Fundraising Results of FY 2020-2021
The annual fundraising campaign for FY 2020/21 ( July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021) concluded with a total revenue of about$350,000. The total donations FUTI received amounted to $131,000 in FY 2012/13, $110,000 in FY 2013/14, $116,000 in FY
2014/15, $316,000 in FY 2015/16, $199,000 in FY2016/17, $313,000 in FY2017/18, $296,000 in FY 2018/19, and $200,000 in
FY2019/20. The substantial increase in FY2015/16 is attributable to the large gift from the Ito Foundation U.S.A. which started inthat year.
Last year, study abroad programs and cross-border academic exchanges nearly came to halt due to the Covid 19 pandemic.
However, as the situation gradually improved in 2020-21, FUTI’s activities also recovered moderately. Contributions from the Ito
Foundation U.S.A. increased to $240,000 making it the largest donation to FUTI. They are a major source of revenue to fund the7Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarships which supports mid- to long-term studies (1 semester or longer) in the US for current
students and alumni of UTokyo.
The second largest donation was received from the trust distribution from Shintech, Inc. This donation in the amount of $46,000 is
primarily applied to fund scholarships supporting short-term summer programs.
The number of individual donors (“general public” or “non-corporate” in the chart) ranges from 50 to 70 each year. For
FY2020/2021 there were about 50 individual donors. The total individual donation amount reached approximately $64,000, whichis greater than last year’s amount. We are grateful to those donors who recognized the critical importance of individual donations
especially in the pandemic-affected years. There is an urgent need to develop a new group of donors to sustain FUTI’s future.
We are extremely grateful to the Ito Foundation U.S.A. and Shintech, Inc. for their generous support of FUTI’s mission. In orderfor FUTI to secure a grant from Ito Foundation U.S.A. and continue the current level of activities, FUTI must raise sufficient
funds from individual donors. We thank each and every one of our donors for their generosity and request their continued support.
Over the past several years, we have made great strides to develop our programs. We are pleased to see the growth of ourscholarship and research grant programs as well as the educational endeavors made by our scholarship and grant recipients. Severalof our scholarship students have received prestigious awards as reported in our Newsletters. It will be greatly rewarding to see
UTokyo increase its presence in the global community, which grows more and more competitive with many other well-recognized
universities across the globe. We would like to extend our utmost gratitude to you for supporting FUTI, which enables us toprovide many highly qualified students with an opportunity to study abroad.

Trends in Contributions to FUTI, 2009-2021 (In US Dollar)

Public Support
Shintech Support
Ito Founda�on Support8

Summary of Financial Statement FY 2020-2021(Year ended June 30, 2021)

Statement of Financial Positions (Unit: US Dollar)
AssetsLiabilities
Current Liabilities
Scholarships and Grants payable 187,000
Accrued expenses
6,494

Current Assets
Checking & Savings Accounts 378,668
Contributions receivable259,367

Fixed Assets
Total Assets

0
638,035

Long-term Liabilities

0

Total Liabilities

193,494

Net Assets
Unrestricted Assets
Restricted Assets

393,656
50,885

Total Net Assets

444,541

Net Assets and Total Liabilities

638,035

Statement of Activities (Unit: US Dollar)

Support and Revenue

Expenses

Contributions
Interest

349,698
15

Total Support and Revenue

349,713

Revenues over Expenses

104,323

Net assets, beginning of year
Net assets, end of year

340,218
444,5419

Grants ( Research Grants, Awards)

224,052

Managerial and general

21,338

Total Expenses

245,390

Report from the COO
In recent years at FUTI, we have “modernized” our organization as operations have become more complex as we grew. Thesechanges have been crucial in rationalizing our operational processes and in strengthening compliance, especially because we arerun by a small number of volunteers.
For example, we are now fully utilizing the online features of our banking services which has allowed us to go completely paperless as well as to achieve multiple points of access, perfect for the current work-from-home environment. We also started torequire double authentication for financial transactions over a certain amount to reinforce our compliance measures. In addition,
we have strengthened our contingency planning by storing all of our historical data in a cloud server and streamlined our FUTI
domain email accounts. We revisited our bylaws and have redefined the roles of executives to clarify their responsibilities and to
reduce inconsistencies generated by English and Japanese translations. We would like to thank all who helped to implement
these and other changes, including our new corporate logo and digital annual reports. It would not have been possible to accomplish them without the cooperation of dedicated colleagues.
We strive to develop FUTI into an organization where our supporters have confidence in FUTI’s integrity, and look forward to
your continued support.

FUTI Lecture Series
The objectives of the FUTI Lectures Series is to provide UTokyo alumni and others with an opportunity to explore, challenge anddebate salient issues with visiting UTokyo scholars and distinguished alumni in an informal setting. The events generally take place
online or in a mid-Manhattan location.

Lecture Theme

Lecturer and Afﬁliation

Date

Do you hear the sound of hope?—Starting aChildren’s Radio Program in Rwanda

Ms. Akiko Sakaedani, UNICEF

Sept. 12, 2020

Urban Sanitation and International
Development: Future of Decentralized
Infrastructure

Mr. Tomohito Okuda, Harvard University,
School of Public administration (Graduate
Student)

Feb. 12, 2021

About Covid 19 Vaccinations

Drs. Shohei Koide and Akiko Koide,
New York University School of Medicine,
Perlmutter Cancer CenterFeb 22, 2021

Exploring New Horizons in Evolutionary
Genomics–from Japan to the United States
and Norway

Prof. Marie Saitou, Norwegian
University of Life Sciences

Sept 18, 2021

Our thanks to alumni organizations including Satsuki-kai America, Chicago Akamon-kai, New York Icho-kai and
FUTI Alumni Association for their support for the lecture series.

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FY 2020-2021 List of Donors
Friends of UTokyo gratefully acknowledge and appreciate the gifts from our donors which help to support the FUTI Global
Leadership Awards and the other many activities to further the globalization and future development of The University of Tokyo
in the U.S., Japan and in the world.
CORPORATIONS
Benefactor($15,000 or more)
Ito Foundation U.S.A.
$240,000

FY 2020-21 total: 3 corporations†, 50 individuals; $349,698‡

Shintech, Inc.
$45,848*
INDIVIDUALS
Donor($1,000-$9,999)

Teruaki Aoki
$1,000Friends($250 - $499)

Names only
(in alphabetical order)

Iwao Ojima$6,000Tohru Asami$1,000Anonymous$350

Tetsunosuke Fujisaki

Hisashi & Masae Kobayashi$5,000Koichi Hamada & Carolyn Beaudin$1,000Michiyoshi Homma$250

Shigenori & Sumie Matsushita$5,000

Akira Kimura$1,000Erika White$250

Masaaki Yamada$5,000

Chiaki Kusuhara$1,000Donations under $250

Motoatsu & Nobuko Sakurai$3,500Kenichi Sugiyama$1,000

Yuichiro & Chika Kuwama$3,000

Ko-Yung Tung
$1,000Junji Takegami$3,000Shinya Wako
$1,000

Yukiko Kobayashi
In memory of Shoshichi Kobayashi$2,600Supporting Member($500-$999)

Yasuo Okamoto$2,500Shohei & Akiko Koide$2,500
Masako Osako$2,300Hiroshi Komiyama$2,000
Yoshinari Ikiri$1,500
Krishen & Geeta Mehta$1,500Anonymous$1,000Anonymous$200
Anonymous$200

Eri Furusawa
Hisao Kameda
Keiko Matsuzaki
Lenarcic
Shigeru Mori
Keiko Nagata‡
Nhut Nguyen
Kazuhiko Onuma
Yasutomo Uemura

Hiroaki Sando$200
Jotaro Hamada$120

Anonymous$600

Jung-Kook Hong$100

Anonymous$500

Minami Goto
$50

Anonymous$500

Abael He
$10

Sadaoki Furui$500

John Park Jakanowski$10

Shunichiro Kishioka$500

Deng-Huei Lee$10

Yoichi Yoshida$500*Dividend income from a $5 million trust fund created for the benefit of FUTI
† Matching gift from Nissay‡ Total including matching gift

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FUTI Organization
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Iwao Ojima
President and CEO
University Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook
University – State University of New York
Yuichiro Kuwama
Vice President and CFO
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine,
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Junji Takegami
Vice President and COO
Advisor, Tiger Pacific Capital LP

Hisashi Kobayashi
President Emeritus (non-voting)Princeton University, Sherman Fairchild
University Professor of Electrical Engineeringand Computer Science, Emeritus. Dean of the
School of Engineering and Applied Science,
Emeritus
Junji Masuda
President Emeritus (non-voting)President Emeritus, New York Icho-kai
Hiroshi Komiyama
Honorary Director (non-voting)
Chairman of the Institute, Mitsubishi ResearchInstitute; 28th President, University of Tokyo

Takatoshi Ito
Director of Academic Affairs
Professor of International and Public Affairs,
School of International and Public Affairs,
Columbia University; Director, Program on
Public Pension and Sovereign Funds; Associate
Director of Research, Center on Japanese
Economy and Business, Columbia Business School

ADMINISTRATION

Shohei Koide
Director of Academic Affairs
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular
Pharmacology, New York University School of
Medicine; Director of Cancer Biologics,
Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone
HealthTetsunosuke Fujisaki
Treasurer
President, Ringo Software Technology, Inc.

Shigenori Matsushita
Director of Scholarship Programs
Former President of Japan Wink
Communications, Member of the JapaneseComputer Pioneers
Geeta Mehta
Director of International Alumni Programs
Adjunct Professor of Urban Design,
Columbia University;
Founder and President, Asia Initiatives
Nobuko Sakurai
Director of FUTI Alumni Association
Relations
Advisor, Lotus Circle Asia Foundation
Atsushi Tsuda
Executive Vice President, University of Tokyo
Masaaki Yamada
President Emeritus (non-voting)Distinguished Research Fellow,
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Masako Osako
Secretary and General manager of
Administration
Executive Director, International Longevity
Center (ILC) Global Alliance; Director,
Satsuki-kai America

Yoshinari Ikiri
Legal Counsel
Vice President & Assistant General Counsel,
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Akiko Koide
Research Assistant Professor, New York
University School of Medicine, Perlmutter
Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health;President, Satsuki-kai America
Takeshi Komoto
Minister, Embassy of Japan in the
United States of America
Yasuo Okamoto
Senior Counselor,
Hughes, Hubard & Reed LLP
Yuriko Suzuki
Principal, Y SUZUKI CONSULTING, LLC
Ko-Yung Tung
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School;
Vice Chair, NY Ichokai
Erika D. White
Attorney, Davis and Polk & Wardwell LLP
Tai Hasegawa
Ex Officio
President, Stanford and Silicon Valley
Akamon-kai; President, Henry Taube InstituteKoichi SatoEx Officio
President, San Francisco Akamon-kai
Katsuyuki Yamaguchi
Ex Officio
President, New York Icho-kai; Managing
Partner at Nishimura & Asahi NY LLP

Masaaki Yamada
Advisory Committee ChairSCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE

Tetsunosuke Fujisaki
President, Ringo Software Technology, Inc.

Shigenori Matsushita
Scholarship Committee Chair

Sadaoki Furui
Chairman of the Board, Toyota Technological
Institute at Chicago; Chief Research Director,
National Institute of Informatics; Professor
Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Nobuko Sakurai
Scholarship Committee Vice Chair

Koichi Hamada
Professor Emeritus, Yale University;
Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo
Yoshinari Ikiri

Shohei Koide
Iwao Ojima
Masako Osako
Junji Takegami
Masaaki Yamada

Hisashi Kobayashi

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