ABOUT US
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Yoshiomi Tamai | President and Founder of Ashinaga Foundation |
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Deputy President
Osamu Murata * 2 | Acting President, Ashinaga / Former President, Kwansei Gakuin University / Member, Central Council for Education |
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Vice-Presidents
Fumihiro Aono * 2 | Executive Vice President & CHRO |
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Satomi Amano * 2 | Illustrator / Artist for Ashinaga Foundation |
Directors
Yukichi Okazaki *2 *4 | Managing Director, International Department |
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Toshihiko Kudo *4 | Managing Director, Public Relations Department |
Masayuki Kobayashi | Dean, College of Education and Social Transformation・Project Professor, J.F. Oberlin University / Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo |
Takahiro Shinyo | Trustee of Kwansei Gakuin, Professor of Kwansei Gakuin University, Dean of Intenational Center for UN and Foreign Affairs Studies |
Yohei Suda | Attorney at Law (Japan & Washington, U.S.A) |
Yukie Seki * 2 | Secretary General, Ashinaga Foundation / Managing Director of General Affairs and Operations, Ashinaga Africa Initiative Department |
Naoko Tsuyama | Deputy President, Africa Japan Forum (AJF) |
Yoshiaki Terumichi | President, Sophia University |
Chisa Mikami | Head of Division for Prosperity, UNITAR Hiroshima Office |
Keizo Yamaguchi | Former President, Hokkaido University / Auditor, Kyoto Univeristy / Professor Emeritus, Hokkaido University |
Tomoya Yoshioka | President, Japan Student Services Organization |
Auditor
Katsuhiko Kotani * 1 | Standing Advisor, Nippon Steel & Sumikin Construction Materials Co., Ltd. / Chairman, Board of Directors, International Environment and Economy Insitute |
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Kiyoshi Hidaka * 2 | Lawyer |
Akira Yoshikawa | Managing Director of Japan Council of Social Welfare Facilities for the Blind / Advisor of Japan Guide Dog Association |
Board of Trustees
Takayo Ishihara * 2 | Nurse, Social Worker, Nursing Care Manager |
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Hiroaki Ogata | Artist / Chairman, Ogata Family Koankai / Lecturer, Asahi Culture Center / Lecturer, Mitsukoshi Culture Salon |
Yoshihiro Ogura * 1 | Lawyer |
Toshiro Ozawa | Former Japanese Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa / Former Ambassador of the Permanent Mission of Japan to Vienna |
Richard H. Kaszynski | MA, MD, PhD, General Director of Shinwakai Medical Corporation Medical Tower/ Co-Founder and Director of Stanford Solutions, Stanford School of Medicine |
Tomoe Kato | Associate Professor, Faculty of Human Sciences, Chikushi Jogakuen University |
Naoshi Sugawara *2 | Member of Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly |
Akemi Soeda | Emeritus Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
Hideaki Domichi | Director, Suzuki Motor Corporation / Former Japanese Ambassador to India / Former Senior Vice President of JICA / Former Director General, Middle Eastern and African Affairs Bureau |
Noriko Tominaga | Délégué Generale, Comité d’échanges Franco-Japonais / Former director of Protocol, Delegation of the European Union to Japan |
Miki Nagashima | Board Member, Malaria No More Japan / Board Member, Japan Civil Network Society on SDGs / President, Nagashima Shoukai LLC. |
Masatsugu Hori | President-emeritus, Osaka Intenational Cancer Institute / Professor Emeritus, Osaka University |
Honorary Advisor
Shinji Okajima | Chairman of the Society for Encouraging Orphans in Traffic Accidents Former Director of Koutsu Orphans Ikueikai Former Chairman of the National Council for Encouragement of Traffic Orphans |
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Permanent Advisors
Masao Kaneki * 2 | Medical Doctor, Adjunct Professor at Juntendo University, Former Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School |
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Yoshio Sakurai | Advocate of Ashinaga Student Street Fundraising |
Keiko Higuchi* 3 | President Emeritus, NPO The Womaen’s Association for Better Aging Society / Emeritus Professor, Tokyo Kasei University |
Tsutomu Hotta* 1 * 3 | Lawyer / Ex-Prosecutor |
Kazuhiko Yoshida | Former Secretary-General of Ashinaga Foundation |
Regional Office Directors
Christine Naluboa and Diana Namakula | Co- Directors of Ashinaga Uganda |
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Khady Thiam | Director of Ashinaga Senegal |
Jordan McFarlane | Director of Ashinaga UK |
Samantha Smith | Director of Ashinaga France |
Elisa Edmondson | Director of Ashinaga USA |
Andrew Castro | Director of Ashinaga Brazil |