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JUSSCA Board of Directors

Honorary Positions

TITLE NAME PROFESSIONS
Honorary Chair Ambassador Rham Emanuel U.S. Ambassador to Japan; 55th Mayor of Chicago; 23rd Chief of Staff to the President of the United States; Former U.S. Congressman; Former Senior Advisor to the President of the United States.
Honorary Chair Ambassador Shigeo Yamada Japanese Ambassador to the United States; Former Director-General of the Comprehensive Foreign Policy Bureau; and Former Deputy Director-General for Foreign Affairs
Honorary Vice Chair Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki Former Japanese Ambassador to the United States. President of the Japan-America Society; President of the Yasuhiro Nakasone World Peace Institute (NPI); Special guest professor and international strategy advisor at Sophia University; Former Director-General of the North American Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Former Deputy Director-General for Foreign Affairs; Former Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Japan to International Organizations in Geneva.
 

Board of Directors

TITLES NAME PROFESSIONS
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
Board member 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
Board member 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.
 

Secretariat

TITLE NAME
Executive Director David Bracey
Deputy Executive Director Rika Kawahara