Voices
TOMODACHI Alumni Joined U.S.-Japan Council Annual Conference
On October 28, 2022, U.S.-Japan Council Annual Conference held its first in-person conference since 2019 in Shibuya, Tokyo. The theme was The Great Reconnect: Strengthening Alliances, Partnerships and Communities, and nearly 700 individuals joined th...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Jennifer Butler
“Believing in a student’s potential is very important at an early stage”- A TOMODACHI Alumna shares her career journey and TOMODACHI experience. Jennifer Butler is a TOMODACHI alumna of the TOMODACHI-Mitsui & Co. Leadership Program 2014 and...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Rimpei Takahashi
Rimpei Takahashi is an alumnus of the 2015 TOMODACHI St. Louis-Ishinomaki Grassroots Exchange Program. The program opened up his eyes to new opportunities and he actively engaged in various TOMODACHI alumni programs through the years. He currently wo...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Teruki Akao
Teruki Akao is an alumnus of the Building the TOMODACHI Generation: Morgan Stanley Ambassadors Program in 2016. After graduating from Doshisha University in September 2016 with a Bachelor of Economics, he went to the Institute of Development Studies ...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Christine Pearson Ishii
“Living Plan B or C doesn’t mean that you’ve failed at plan A.” – A TOMODACHI alumna shares her career journey Christine Pearson Ishii is a TOMODACHI alumna of the TOMODACHI MetLife Women’s Leadership Program (TMWLP) 2017-2018. She studi...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Takuya Uehara
Takuya Uehara is an alumnus of the TOMODACHI-Frogs Jr. Program. Originally from Okinawa, he majored in Marketing at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University’s College of International Management where he wrote his thesis on the Service-Dominant Log...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Haruka Nakajima
Haruka Nakajima serves as the TOMODACHI Alumni Intern for the Spring/Summer period as of April 2022. She is an alumna of the 2019 TOMODACHI Metlife Women’s Leadership Program, by which she had a chance to go abroad for the first…...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Honoka Kumazawa
Honoka Kumazawa is an alumna of the TOMODACHI High School Women Career Mentoring Program in 2018. She serves as the TOMODACHI Alumni Intern for the Spring/Summer period starting from March 2022. Originally from Fukushima, she also participated in the...more
