Board of Directors

Rick Aizawa Port of Portland
Nick Boese Individual Member
Cathy Bowman Mackenzie.
Lisa Christy Portland Japanese Garden
Emi Day Individual Member
Ray Edwards NW Natural
Sally Saeko Fujimoto Shokookai of Portland
Tatsuo Ito SEH America, Inc.
Rob Langstaff Sweet Onion Consulting
Hiroshi Mokudai Individual Member
John Motley Columbia Sportswear
Michiko Murakami Delta Air Lines
Satomi Newsom Lewis & Clark College
Masami Nishishiba Portland State University
Paul Owen Vanport International
Patty Pickering JPMorgan
Kojiro Shiraiwa Yamasa Corporation USA
Nikki Swift Cable Huston
Paul Waldram Moss Adams LLP
Masa Yamaguchi Lane Powell PC
Junki Yoshida Yoshida Group

Honorary Directors

Governor Tina Kotek
City of Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler
Ed Kawasaki
George Nakata (in memorium)

Ex-Officio Directors

Consul General Yuzo Yoshioka, Consular Office of Japan in Portland
Tamako Hayashi, Deloitte, (Immediate Past Chair)

Other Past Chairs

Dean Alterman
John Kodachi
Yoshio Kurosaki
Doug Smith
Charlie Allcock
Paul Taylor
Grant Yoshihara
Craig Bachman
Stu Sawai
Rick Saito
Jan Burreson
Isao Iwashita
Adolf Hertrich
Sho Dozono
Governor Victor Atiyeh
Glen Ulmer
Ed Kawasaki
Cliff Alterman
Lou Kennedy
Perry Holland
R.W. DeWeese
Richard Lawrence
George Azumano
William Fisher
Rudie Wilhelm, Jr.
Edmund Ellis
R.W. Cabell
John Hering
John Fulton
Donald Bates
Tom Kerr
Roland Davis
Carvel Linden
E.C. Sammons
Larry Hartman
E.B. MacNaughton
Judge C.H. Carey
Rogers MacVeagh
Dr. Norman Coleman
Peter Beckett