Voices
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Sora Shirota
Sora Shirota is an alumnus of the TOMODACHI Summer 2018 SoftBank Leadership Program. In order to explore the “importance of human connections”, he organized a “Tohoku Observation Tour” and got involved in the launch of the student organization CRENEC...more
Q&A with TOMODACHI Program Participants and TOMODACHI Alumni: Ayaka Ueda
Ayaka Ueda is an alumna of the TOMODACHI Toshizo Watanabe Leadership Program. She aspires to be a medical researcher and applied for this program to broaden her view and be a leader with a flexible mindset and various knowledge about…...more
TOMODACHI Initiative Intern: Mai OKADA gains from her experience
Mai Okada, a TOMODACHI Initiative intern from April 2022, has realized that if she acts and speaks up on her initiative rather than passively doing the work given to her, she could receive support and experience the joy of being…...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
