Board of Directors
Dustin Johnson
Chair
Partner in Intellectual Property Group at Haynes and Boone, LLP
Daizo Miyajima
First Japanese Vice Chair
Director at Panasonic Energy Sales Company of America (PECSA)
Daisuke (Dusty) Kimura
Japanese Second Vice Chair
Dallas Branch Manager, Japan Airlines
Julia Wada
Secretary
Retired former Vice President of Toyota Financial Services
Elected Directors
Meelis Anton
City of Plano EDC, International Business Manager
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.
Yuko Kitamura
Director of Supply Chain Logistics, Hitachi High-Tech America.
President, Japanese Career Women
Akifumi Nagatani
General Manager, Network Services, Cloud and Security Division at NTT DATA, Inc.
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
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)
Takeshi Yamagishi
Senior Manager Business Development for Quick USA
Adam Zehner
Sr. Vice President of Global Acquisitions and Global Content Planning at Crunchyroll, a Division of Sony Corporation
Honorary & Regular Directors
Lawrence P. Howorth
(Immediate Past Chair) | President - Howorth International
Takeshi Koyama
Consul-General of Japan in Houston
Kazunori Sakamoto
(Immediate Past Japanese First Vice Chair) – Toyota Tsusho America, Inc.
Hisashi (Sam) Shichijo
The University of Texas at Dallas and Honorary Consul of Japan in Dallas
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.
Michael M. Boone
Haynes and Boone, LLP
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
COO, 1Finity, Inc.
Hideto Nishitani
CEO, 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)
Admiral Patrick M. Walsh
Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
