| Chairman |
Shin Koyamada |
Board Chairman of the Koyamada International Foundation (KIF); Board Chairman of the Guardian Girls International (GGI); Fromer Board and Executive Committee member of the Sister Cities International (SCI); Actor (Co-starring in The Last Samurai); Producer; Chairman & CEO of The Shinca Group |
Vice Chair
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Ambassador James P. Zumwalt |
Former U.S. Chargé d’Affaires to Japan; former Director of the Japan Division; East Asia and Pacific Bureau, Department of State; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs; recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun |
Vice Chair
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General Ichiro Bansho |
Special Advisor to the Minister of Defense; Chairman of the All Japan Jukendo Federation; Advisor to Marubeni Corporation; Former Chief of the Western Area of the Ground Self-Defense Force |
| Board member |
Anthony Al-Jamie |
Chair of California Sister Cities; President of Sister Cities International Southern California Chapter; President of KIF USA; Commissioner and former Chair of the Anaheim Sister City Commission; current member and former Vice-Chair of the Los Angeles-Nagoya Sister Cities Affiliation; former Chair of the San Bernardino Sister Cities Council; Founding Chair of the California Youth Leadership Summit and the California Young Artists Expo; and a member of the Japan America Society of Southern California. |
| Board member |
Karen Kelley |
Former U.S. Consul General at the U.S. Consulate General in Osaka and Kobe; former senior diplomat at the U.S. State Department; former spokesperson at the U.S. Embassy in Japan |
| Board member |
Ambassador Haruhisa Takeuchi |
Former Ambassador of Japan to Israel; Former Ambassador to Singapore; Advisor of Daiwa House Corporation; Lecturer, Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo |
| Board member |
Doug Erber |
Former President of the Japan America Society of Southern California; A Recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays (2021) |
| Board member |
David Bracey |
Secretary of Southern California Sister Cities |
| Board member |
House of Representatives Ichiro Aisawa |
House of Representatives (LDP); Former Chairmen of several Standing Committees of House of Representatives such as Committee on Foreign Affairs in 1997, Committee on Rules and Administration in 2006, Committee on Budget in 2007 and Committee on Fundamental National Policies in 2014. Former Senior Vice-Minister for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. |
