Issue:
Professional / Journalist Associate Members
Neide Hayama
Media Brazil
My name is Neide Hayama. I'm a Brazilian journalist. I've lived in Japan for 19 years.
I have worked as a journalist since my second year of college. I came to Japan because I received an invitation for a friend of mine to work in a Brazilian newspaper.
In recent years I have worked as an editor of Brazil Magazine published by Chamber of Commerce of Brazil in Japan. Download of magazine is here: http://ccbj.jp/revistas/
I've worked for newspapers, magazines, radio and online.
Professional / Journalist Associate Members
Ayako Hirono
Nikkei BP
Deputy Editor, Nikkei Business/Distinguished Guest Professor, Keio University
Ayako Hirono joined the Asahi Shimbun as a recent graduate in 1993 and worked in the Tottori and Kyoto bureaus, as well as in the copy and layout department at the Osaka headquarters. As a reporter, she covered crime, local government politics, education, etc. When the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck the Kansai area on January 17, 1995, she went to the Hanshin bureau on the day of the disaster and reported on the situation.
She has been a reporter for Nikkei Business since 2001. After taking a leave of absence, she completed a Master in Public Policy (MPP) at Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs in the U.S. in 2005 with a CWAJ scholarship and a tuition waiver from Princeton. In 2013, she became deputy editor of Nikkei Business.
From 2016 to 2018, she was seconded to Nikkei Asian Review (now Nikkei Asia), an English-language publication of Nihon Keizai Shimbun. The three cover packages she handled, "Overworked," "Asia's Silver Lining the unexpected upside of an aging population," and "Funerals for the 21st century: Asia's new ways to say goodbye" were nominated for the SOPA Award (Society of Publishers in Asia Award). Among them, "Overworked" won the award for editorial excellence in lifestyle reporting in the regional media category at the 2017 SOPA Award.
In 2018, she returned to Nikkei Business and began writing a series of interviews with world-renowned economists, including seven Nobel laureates, and management researchers for Nikkei Business. She published them in the book "17 Lessons in Management from the World's Leading Business Professors", "12 Premier Lessons from the World's Leading Economists". She became an editorial commentator at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) in 2021, and started teaching at Keio University's Faculty of Policy Studies as a distinguished visiting professor in April 2022. She has been a consulting fellow at RIETI since April 2023, working on writing academic trends and policy research.
Associate Member
Lillian Hart
Nishimura & Asahi (Gaikokuho Kyodo Jigyo)
Public Relations Specialist at Nishimura & Asahi
Education:
DePaul University, Chicago, Public Relations and Japanese
Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (Stanford), Yokohama
Lillian (Lilly) Hart has spent the last decade residing in Japan. She began learning Japanese at five years old, when she entered Portland’s Japanese Magnet Program in Kindergarten. She completed the program in high school, then went on to study abroad twice during her time at DePaul University through the Japan Foundation and U.S.-Japan Council’s TOMODACHI Program.
Putting her language skills to work, she moved to Oregon’s sister prefecture, Toyama, for three years on the JET Program.
Since then, Lilly has worked doing in-house PR for several Japanese organizations, supporting global media coverage, social media strategy, content creation, re-branding, media relations, events, and more.
Associate Member
Ichiro Saito
Kyoritsu Kanzai Co., Ltd.
March 1982, Graduated from Meiji University, Faculty of Commerce.
Business Experience:
- Apr 1982 Joined Dai-ichi Kangyo Bank, Ltd.
- Mar 2003 Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Tatebayashi Branch Manager
- Feb 2006 Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Jiyugaoka Branch Manager
- Oct 2008 Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Omori Branch Manager
- Apr 2009 Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Omori Branch Manager, Omori Branch Omori 1st Department Manager
- May 2010 Seconded to Kyoritsu Trustee Co., Ltd.
- Jun 2010 Kyoritsu Kanzai Co., Ltd. Appointed Managing Director
- May 2011 Retired from Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Transferred to Kyoritsu Trustee Co., Ltd.
- Jun 2012 Kyoritsu Kanzai Co., Ltd. Appointed Senior Managing Director
- Jun 2014 Kyoritsu Kanzai Co., Ltd. Appointed President and CEO To the present day
Associate Member
Kiyohisa Imada
Kyoritsu Kanzai Co., Ltd.
Associate Member
Kiu Hayama
Kyoritsu Kanzai Co., Ltd.
Associate Member
Kazumasa Ohyama
Hatebur Japan K.K.
Majored in mechanical engineering at University in Japan and studied computer science, working for the Ambassador Residence of Embassy in Washington D.C. After returned to Japan in 1981, my business career began and has been dedicating to variety of global companies for the last several decades.
- SAUNDERS JAPAN K.K. (USA)
(2007 – 2013), President & Representative Director - PERCEPTRON ASIA (Japan) PACIFIC K.K. (USA)
(1997 – 2007), President & Representative Director - COSA LIEBERMANN K.K. (Switzerland)
(1997 – 2007), Sales Engineer ~Sales Manager
Achievement
- Over 40 years of business development and sales
- Building of start-up companies
- 27 years' experience of Representative Director (General Manager)
- Connections with industries of Automobile, Construction, Semiconductor, 3D world, and Aero-space.
Reinstatement (Associate)
Robert W. Whittemore
Semi-retired
I have been involved with Asia, principally Japan, for over 40 years having worked for global international banks in the Transaction Banking and Treasury Services arena. I have headed up various teams involved with risk advisory and sales of cash management services to both financial institutions and major corporate clients. Principally designed, planned and implemented product and cross-selling strategies in the cross-border cash management space.
I re-joined FCCJ after returning to Japan and following a 5 year assignment in Singapore for a major Japanese bank. As I have been spending more time on cross-cultural activities including projects involving literature and art, I found the events at FCCJ to be a very attractive opportunity to re-connect. As I worked for the Smithsonian following undergraduate school, the FCCJ provides me with additional opportunities to engage.
Reinstatement (Associate)
Toranosuke Muto
Koseisha Co., Ltd.
Reinstatement (Associate)
Yasuhiro Maehara
The Securities Analysts Association of Japan
Yasuhiro Maehara started his career at the Bank of Japan in 1974, working in such areas as international finance, monetary policy, diet liaison and public relations. He was a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution (1987-89), Chief Representative of the Bank of Japan Office in Washington, D.C. (1992-95), General Manager for the Americas in New York (2000-2003) and Deputy Director-General of the Monetary Affairs Department (2003-2005).
In 2005, he moved to Hitotsubashi University to become professor at the School of International Public Policy. From 2005 until 2010, he directed the Hitotsubashi Executive Program for Macroeconomic Policymakers sponsored by the IMF, which was a two-week seminar for senior officials at the ministries and central banks in Asia. From 2013 until 2019, he participated in the human capacity building programs of the central banks in Vietnam and Myanmar funded by JICA.
In 2013, he moved to the Securities Analysts Association of Japan and served as the Managing Executive Director from 2015 through 2021, currently working as Senior Advisor.
He graduated with B.A in Economics from Hitotsubashi University in 1974 and with Ph.D. in Economics from the London School of Economics.
