Board of Directors
Lawrence P. Howorth
Chair
CEO of Howorth International, LLC
Kazunori Sakamoto
Japanese First Vice Chair
Group General Manager, Toyota Tsusho America
Dustin Johnson
American First Vice Chair / Chair-Elect
Partner in Intellectual Property Group at Haynes and Boone, LLP
Daisuke (Dusty) Kimura
Japanese Second Vice Chair
Dallas Branch Manager, Japan Airlines
Julia Wada
Secretary
Retired former Vice President of Toyota Financial Services
Roshan Mansinghani
General Counsel
Grant Ogata
President, Japan America Society of DFW
Kaito Ajiro
Treasurer
WWA Wealth Management – Director of Business Development/Advisor
FCI – CEO
Elected Directors
Naveen Bandla
Vice President - Aviation Strategy & Enterprise Analytics at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
Elaine Browning
Retired Chair of JASDFW, Chair of Dallas-Sendai International Friendship Cities
Carlo Capua
Chair, Sister Cities International, Senior Principal, Rainwater Charitable Foundation
Don Casey
Retired Senior Vice President, American Airlines
Joe Chapa
Vice President at U.S.-Mexico Chamber of Commerce
Shiro Fukamachi
Managing Director, MUFG Americas
Satoshi (Sam) Hata
Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning and Group Company & Investor Relations at 7-Eleven
Peter Kim
CEO Bella Hem
Masahiro Kishimoto
Director, Head of Japanese Corporate Banking (Dallas)
Americas Corporate Banking Department No.1 (Dallas)
Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
Doug McDonald
Assistant City Manager, City of Plano
Daisuke Dice Nakamura
Executive Director | Sr. Lead Business Development Officer | Wells Fargo Commercial Banking
David Nishida
Chief Operating Officer, Orix USA
Mike Rosa
Senior Vice President, Dallas Regional Chamber
James Schofield
President, Toyota Financial Service Bank
Dan Sinawat
CEO AI Connex, Founder VC Arena
Yoichiro Suzuki
Senior Vice President, NTT Data
Naoto Takayanagi
Senior Director, Strategic Planning, NEC America Corporation of America
Hide Takeda
Senior Vice President, ITO EN (North America), INC.
Dr. Hiroki Takeuchi
Associate Professor of Political Science Director, Sun & Star Japan and East Asia Program SMU Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs
Atsushi Tokiwa
Executive Director & Chief Representative of Dallas Rep. Office, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
Honorary & Regular Directors
Zentaro Naganuma
Consul-General of Japan in Houston
Hisashi (Sam) Shichijo
Honorary Consul of Japan in Dallas
Roy Yokokura
7-Eleven, Inc. / Immediate Past Japanese First Vice President
Hideki Shimada
JETRO – Houston
Advisory Council
These academic, business, cultural, and government leaders support our mission to further mutual understanding and ongoing engagement between Japanese and Americans.
Richard C. Benson
The University of Texas at Dallas
Michael M. Boone
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Joseph M. DePinto
7-Eleven, Inc.
Sean Donohue
Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki
The America-Japan Society, Inc. and Ambassador from Japan to U.S. (2008-2012)
Masahiro Ikeno
NEC Corporation of America (retired)
Robert Isom
American Airlines
The Honorable Eric Johnson
Mayor of Dallas
Ambassador Ryozo Kato
U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) and Ambassador from Japan to U.S. (2001-2008)
Ambassador Ronald Kirk
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Shingo Mizuno
Fujitsu America, Inc.
Hideto Nishitani
Virtuous Capital
The Honorable Mattie Parker
Mayor of Fort Worth
Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae
The Japan Institute of International Affairs and Ambassador from Japan to U.S. (2012-2018)
Ambassador J. Thomas Schieffer
Envoy International LLC and Ambassador from the U.S. to Japan (2005-2009)
R. Gerald Turner
Southern Methodist University
Admiral Patrick M. Walsh
Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
