Name: Shihab Alfaheem Title: UAE Ambassador URL: https://www.mofaic.gov.ae/ Hometown: Abu Dhabi Years in Japan: 1 What was your first encounter with Japan? My relationship with Japan started at an early age. In the UAE, we grew up watching Japanese animation and hearing from family members how Japan’s innovation affected our ...
Name: Oussouby Sacko Title: President of Kyoto Seika University URL: www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/eng/ Hometown: Bamako, Mali Years in Japan: 30 What was your first encounter with Japan? Oussouby Sacko | © KYOTO SEIKA UNIVERSITY I first came to Japan in the summer of 1990. I didn’t really know anything about Japan at the ...
Name: Trista Bridges Title: Principal and co-founder of Read the Air and co-author of “Leading Sustainably” URL: https://www.readtheair.jp Hometown: New Jersey Years in Japan: 6 What was your impetus for coming to Japan? Trista Bridges | © HIROMICHI MATONO My husband, our son and I had been in France for many ...
Name: Ben Ferguson Title: Head of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific Equities and co-head of Japan Securities Sales URL: www.goldmansachs.com/japan/ Hometown: Cleveland, Ohio Years in Japan: 23 What was your first encounter with Japan? I grew up in the 1980s in the Midwest. Japan was pretty scary back then. Lots of ...
Name: Bob Van den Broecke Title: Managing Director of Evernex Japan URL: https://www.evernex.com/ Hometown: Belgium Years in Japan: 4 What was your first encounter with Japan? My first exposure to Japan came through my father, who started working for Ajinomoto in Paris shortly after I was born. We lived there ...
Name: Jenifer Rogers Title: President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) URL: www.accj.or.jp Title 2: General Counsel Asia at Asurion URL 2: www.asurion.com Hometown: Midland, Michigan Years in Japan: 16 What was your first encounter with Japan? I first came to Japan in 1981 when my father was transferred ...
Name: Laurence Bates Title: Managing Executive Officer, Panasonic URL: www.panasonic.com/global Hometown: Mystic, Connecticut Years in Japan: 30 What was your first encounter with Japan? My dad was a career Coast Guard officer, and he spent time in Hokkaido around the time I was born. I used to hear stories from ...
Name: Mark Choon Title: General Manager, The Peninsula Tokyo URL: https://www.peninsula.com/en/tokyo/5-star-luxury-hotel-ginza Hometown: Seattle, U.S. Years in Japan: 2.5 What was your first encounter with Japan? My first trip through Tokyo was a bit of delayed honeymoon in 2007. I did a small trip that went through Hong Kong, Japan and ...
Name: Ina Lepel Title: Ambassador of Germany URL: https://japan.diplo.de/ja-ja Hometown: Cuxhaven, Germany Years in Japan: 1.5 What was your first encounter with Japan? Japan was a very important subject of my studies as an economics student. In the business administration class I took in the '80s, we learned about fashionable ...
When Michael Mroczek decided to become a lawyer, he felt he was closing the door on a childhood dream — a path leading to Japan, which he had been enamored of ever since he came across a book about Hiroshima in his father’s collection.
