Voices
TOMODACHI Alumni Highlight: Miki Kadota, from TOMODACHI Next Generation Summit 2025
Miki Kadota is an alumnus of the 2015 Building the TOMODACHI Generation Program. Through her stay in Washington DC and learning about the vibrancy of the civil society in the United States, she developed a great interest in protecting and…...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Kei Imai
Kei Imai is an alumnus of the TOMODACHI Disaster Resilience Leadership Training Program and is currently a researcher in a laboratory at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Economics, Graduate School of Medicine, at The University of Tokyo. H...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Chiaki Nakawatari
In this interview, we interviewed Hiromu Nagatomo, a current town council member for Inawashiro, Fukushima. He is also the founder of Inabishi Corporation, whose mission is to create new local industries by harmonizing environmental conservation and ...more
TOMODACHI Alumni Highlight: Ayano Hirose, from TOMODACHI Next Generation Summit 2025
This month’s alumni highlight features Ayano Hirose, one of six speakers at the TOMO Voice Speech Contest during the Next Generation Summit 2025. Ayano is an alumna of the The Toshizo Watanabe Endowed Scholarship. Speaking on this year’s theme, the&h...more
TOMODACHI Alumni Highlight: Hisashi Kojima, from TOMODACHI Next Generation Summit 2025
This month’s alumni highlight features Hisashi Kojima, one of six speakers at the TOMO Voice Speech Contest during the Next Generation Summit 2025. Hisashi is an alumnus of the TOMODACHI Microsoft iLEAP Social Innovation and Leadership Program 2017. ...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Chiaki Nakawatari
Chiaki Nakawatari is a 2024 TOMODACHI Amway Japan Foundation Tohoku Future Leader Program alumna. She is currently a third-year student at Ofunato High School in Iwate Prefecture. As the student council president, she has led several initiatives, inc...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Arianna Santiago
Arianna Santiago is the 2024-2026 TOMODACHI Alumni Regional Representative of the California Region based in Laguna Niguel, California. She is an alumnus of the Daiwa House 2016 Student Leadership Conference in Dallas, where she graduated from the So...more
TOMODACHI Initiative Intern: Ayano Hirose’s Experience
Ayano Hirose, a TOMODACHI Initiative (TOMODACHI) intern since May 2023, has deepened her interests and career direction through encounters with diverse individuals through TOMODACHI and U.S.-Japan Council (USJC) programs. She says her interest in Jap...more
