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Regular Member
Pham Ngoc Tuan
Vietnam News Agency (VNA)
Full name: PHAM NGOC TUAN
Nationality: Vietnamese
Occupation: Correspondent
Office: Vietnam News Agency (VNA)
Education and working experience:
8.2006-7.2010
Student of the Japanese and Chinese Faculty of Ha Noi University
8.2010-12.2019
Sub-editor of the VNA World News Department
1.2020-10.2020:
Correspondent of the VNA World News Department
11.2020-
Tokyo Bureau of VNA, Deputy Bureau Chief
Family particulars: Married, two daughters.
Working: I can use Chinese and Japanese at work. My current job is to write news about the politics, economy, culture, society of Japan, relations between Japan and other countries, and relations between Vietnam and Japan.
Reinstatement (Regular)
Shinichiro Nakajima
The Yomiuri Shimbun
May 1993: Graduated from the Department of Literature of Waseda University
April 1993: Joined The Yomiuri Shimbun
May 2000: International News Department
October 2004: Rio de Janeiro Bureau (Latin America Correspondent)
November 2007: Niigata Bureau
November 2009: International News Department
November 2012: Toyama Bureau
September 2014: Administration Department
June 2016: Section Chief, International Affairs
June 2017: Niigata Bureau Chief
June 2019: Deputy Manager Administration Department
July 2022: Chief Manager International Affairs Administration Center
Associate Member
Hideki Tanemura
Logos Science Corp.
Hideki Tanemura is currently the President and CEO of Logos Science Corp., a digital mental health application development company in Tokyo. In 2011, he won Ig Nobel Prize for Chemistry for inventing a wasabi-activated alarm device for people with hearing loss. After more than 20 years of management experience and domestic and international activities to promote regenerative medicine technology, he realized the importance and emergence of growing mental health issues. In 2022, he established a digital mental health development company named Logos Science Corp. where he strives to bring a society free of mental disorders. The company’s vision is to contribute to the realization of a society free of suffering and stress. Its mission is to develop a wide range of tailor-made psychotherapy approaches through mental health and welfare applications.
Associate Member
Arata Tabata
Nobelpharma Co., Ltd.
Arata Tabata is the Senior Executive Officer and Head of Bio Business Division of Nobelpharma Co., Ltd. Nobelpharma was founded by Mr. Jin Shiomura in 2003 with a corporate mission to Contribute to Society by Providing Critical but Neglected Pharmaceutical and Medical Devices.
He was born in Tokyo. After graduating from Tokyo University of Science, Department of Pharmacy, in 1979, he has been engaging consistently in pharmaceutical business development activities for over 30 years. Tabata, a pharmacist, served as a company representative of the European branch office (Netherlands) of Mochida Pharmaceutical for six years, and has experience in international development and development planning.
He joined Nobelpharma in 2014, and has since been in charge of negotiations for business development and purchasing, and overall alliance management based on his domestic and overseas network. He has been in charge of corporate venture capital activity by Nobelpharma Financial Company since November 2022.
He is a member of the Economic Law Study Division of the Corporate Lawyers Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Japan (division chair in 2018).
