Tag: U.S.
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Episode 18: Be an Actor, Not a Bridge
Glen S. Fukushima is a bilingual and bicultural Sansei (third-generation American of Japanese ancestry) raised in the United States and Japan. He is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation. After law practice in Los Angeles, he served in…
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Episode 17: Being Present in the Moment
Sam Ushio is the Founder of Ikigai Lab, where he leads the social enterprise’s commitment to human sustainability and societal impact. Sam fuses a powerful combination of 10,000+ hours of Ikigai experience and 20 years of global asset management experience to design purpose-driven ecosystems for individuals and organizations around the world. Prior to founding Ikigai…
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Episode 16: Owning Your Superpower
Niharika Chibber Joe is a service-oriented public diplomat with experience across government, corporate, and nonprofit sectors. She currently serves as Deputy Agency Head of the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission, an independent federal agency strengthening the U.S.–Japan Alliance through educational and cultural exchange in support of U.S. partnerships in the Indo-Pacific. Previously, she was General Manager…
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Episode 15: A New Journey in Times of Change
Mizumi Dutcher is a policy researcher and former journalist specializing in Chinese politics, U.S.-China relations, and East Asian strategic affairs. She most recently served as a Foreign Policy Fellow at the U.S. House of Representatives, supporting the East Asia and Pacific Subcommittee. Her journalism career spanned more than two decades at Fuji Television, including service…
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Episode 14: Laugh Together, Be Together
Gigi Modrich is an Indian law practitioner, roller derby skater, and stand-up comedian. She was brought up in a multiethnic household: her mother is Jicarilla Apache and her father is Croatian American. While she is multiracial, her upbringing focused on her Native American culture. She attended Dartmouth College because it was founded for the…
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Episode 12: Cultivating Our Humanity
John Onoda is a principal at iQ 360, a strategic consulting firm with current clients in the United States and Japan. He has led communications at companies including General Motors, Levi Strauss, Visa USA and Charles Schwab. He also has decades of experience providing counsel to major global corporations, universities, NGOs and government agencies. He is…
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Episode 11: Leading Step by Step
Born in Australia and raised in Egypt until she was three, Kazuyo Kato moved between the United States (Washington, DC, San Francisco) and Japan throughout her elementary to high school years. She has built her career at organizations focused on U.S.-Japan relations and international affairs in both countries. She currently serves as Executive Director…
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Episode 10: Towards Perfect Effort
Lefteris Kafatos first started studying Japanese at the University of Hawai’i in Manoa. He later went on the Japan Exchange Teaching (JET) Program and was posted in Okinawa. That experience fostered in him a strong interest in language interpretation, and in the nature of the U.S.-Japan alliance. Lefteris went on to study at the Inter-University Center for…
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Episode 9: Beauty Not Loudly Told
Mari Yobp was born and raised in Japan. She grew up in Zushi City, which faces the Pacific Ocean and is about an hour away from Tokyo. She also lived in Hong Kong for a year and a half when she was 4 years old. She majored in oil painting and printmaking at Musashino Art University,…