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Eligibility for FUTI Scholarships

1. You must be a student in universities/colleges in the US, regardless of nationalities or citizenships. A non-US branch of a US university is not considered.
2. You must satisfy the eligibility of, be admitted to and participate in the IARU-GSP. It is not necessary to satisfy everything at the time of application.
3. An undergraduate or graduate student of Yale or UCB, the members of IARU in the US.

Typical award amount

$3,000 including a room charge

Duplicate Scholarship Application

Each program/internship has, as FUTI understands, its own scholarship program. You can apply for both but can’t get both. FUTI scholarship is designed to be slightly more beneficial and more prestigious.

Application Material

Please submit the following materials through FUTI’s online application system, separately from your application to the UTokyo programs/internships.

Since we do not provide any “save” feature, we recommend you first to look at the application system and to be sure that you have gathered all the required information before you begin.

1. Information about yourself, including your name, school and department, major field of study, and year (e.g., junior year, 2nd year graduate student), and the study abroad program office of your university.Also information, if applicable, about your host in UTokyo or its affiliated institution, department/laboratory, your host professor/researcher and their phone and email address.
2. An essay written in English, about 500 words long.  The most important point in it is a clear statement of your objectives of participation in the summer program/internship in relation with your career objectives and future contribution plan.  It is also your opportunity to demonstrate your ability to express ideas in your own words.
3. A copy of your transcript (i.e., academic record). If a transcript cannot be provided for legitimate reasons, FUTI will infer a score and use a score range of 70-100% of the inferred score.
4. Your brief CV (curriculum vitae) , including your academic background, work experiences, thesis or research topics (if any), extracurricular activities, publications & reports, awards & prizes (e.g., scholarships). FUTI regards leadership and vitality important. Express them in your CV. No format is specified, but please refer to a sample CV here.
5. Name, phone and email address of your reference, whom you have asked to write a recommendation letter. The recommendation letter can be in either Japanese or English. Please ask your reference (i.e., recommender) well in advance to email a recommendation letter directly to recommend [at] friendsofutokyo.org.

Application Deadline

End of February, 2020. Note that the deadline for the recommendation letters is the same.

Evaluation

Your application is evaluated on (1) the objectives of study abroad expressed in your essay, (2) academic performances considering differences of schools, (3) leadership and vitality expressed in your CV and (4) the recommendation.

FUTI will notify you about the decision by the last week of April.  (In case your deadline might be extended to April because of Note 1, the result would be notified by the last week of May.)

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Eligibility for FUTI Scholarships

1. You must be a student in universities/colleges in the US, regardless of nationalities or citizenships. A non-US branch of a US university is not considered.
2. You must satisfy the eligibility of, be admitted to and participate in UTRIP. It is not necessary to satisfy everything at the time of application.
3. A natural science undergraduate student in the US.

Typical award amount

$4,000 including a room charge

Duplicate Scholarship Application

Each program/internship has, as FUTI understands, its own scholarship program. You can apply for both but can’t get both. FUTI scholarship is designed to be slightly more beneficial and more prestigious.

Application Material

Please submit the following materials through FUTI’s online application system, separately from your application to the UTokyo programs/internships.

Since we do not provide any “save” feature, we recommend you first to look at the application system and to be sure that you have gathered all the required information before you begin.

1. Information about yourself, including your name, school and department, major field of study, and year (e.g., junior year, 2nd year graduate student), and the study abroad program office of your university.Also information, if applicable, about your host in UTokyo or its affiliated institution, department/laboratory, your host professor/researcher and their phone and email address.
2. An essay written in English, about 500 words long.  The most important point in it is a clear statement of your objectives of participation in the summer program/internship in relation with your career objectives and future contribution plan.  It is also your opportunity to demonstrate your ability to express ideas in your own words.
3. A copy of your transcript (i.e., academic record). If a transcript cannot be provided for legitimate reasons, FUTI will infer a score and use a score range of 70-100% of the inferred score.
4. Your brief CV (curriculum vitae) , including your academic background, work experiences, thesis or research topics (if any), extracurricular activities, publications & reports, awards & prizes (e.g., scholarships). FUTI regards leadership and vitality important. Express them in your CV. No format is specified, but please refer to a sample CV here.
5. Name, phone and email address of your reference, whom you have asked to write a recommendation letter. The recommendation letter can be in either Japanese or English. Please ask your reference (i.e., recommender) well in advance to email a recommendation letter directly to recommend [at] friendsofutokyo.org.

Application Deadline

End of February, 2020. Note that the deadline for the recommendation letters is the same.

Evaluation

Your application is evaluated on (1) the objectives of study abroad expressed in your essay, (2) academic performances considering differences of schools, (3) leadership and vitality expressed in your CV and (4) the recommendation.

FUTI will notify you about the decision by the last week of April.  (In case your deadline might be extended to April because of Note 1, the result would be notified by the last week of May.)

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Eligibility for FUTI Scholarships

1. You must be a student in universities/colleges in the US, regardless of nationalities or citizenships. A non-US branch of a US university is not considered.
2. You must satisfy the eligibility of, be admitted to and participate in UTSIP. It is not necessary to satisfy everything at the time of application.
3. An undergraduate student in the US interested in a graduate school in Japan.

Typical award amount

$2,000 in case of a free room

Duplicate Scholarship Application

Each program/internship has, as FUTI understands, its own scholarship program. You can apply for both but can’t get both. FUTI scholarship is designed to be slightly more beneficial and more prestigious.

Application Material

Please submit the following materials through FUTI’s online application system, separately from your application to the UTokyo programs/internships.

Since we do not provide any “save” feature, we recommend you first to look at the application system and to be sure that you have gathered all the required information before you begin.

1. Information about yourself, including your name, school and department, major field of study, and year (e.g., junior year, 2nd year graduate student), and the study abroad program office of your university.Also information, if applicable, about your host in UTokyo or its affiliated institution, department/laboratory, your host professor/researcher and their phone and email address.
2. An essay written in English, about 500 words long.  The most important point in it is a clear statement of your objectives of participation in the summer program/internship in relation with your career objectives and future contribution plan.  It is also your opportunity to demonstrate your ability to express ideas in your own words.
3. A copy of your transcript (i.e., academic record). If a transcript cannot be provided for legitimate reasons, FUTI will infer a score and use a score range of 70-100% of the inferred score.
4. Your brief CV (curriculum vitae) , including your academic background, work experiences, thesis or research topics (if any), extracurricular activities, publications & reports, awards & prizes (e.g., scholarships). FUTI regards leadership and vitality important. Express them in your CV. No format is specified, but please refer to a sample CV here.
5. Name, phone and email address of your reference, whom you have asked to write a recommendation letter. The recommendation letter can be in either Japanese or English. Please ask your reference (i.e., recommender) well in advance to email a recommendation letter directly to recommend [at] friendsofutokyo.org.

Application Deadline

End of February, 2020. Note that the deadline for the recommendation letters is the same.

Evaluation

Your application is evaluated on (1) the objectives of study abroad expressed in your essay, (2) academic performances considering differences of schools, (3) leadership and vitality expressed in your CV and (4) the recommendation.

FUTI will notify you about the decision by the last week of April.  (In case your deadline might be extended to April because of Note 1, the result would be notified by the last week of May.)

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Eligibility for FUTI Scholarships

1. You must be a student in universities/colleges in US, regardless of nationalities or citizenships.
2. You must satisfy the eligibility of, be admitted to and participate in ESEP. It is not necessary to satisfy everything at the time of application.
3. An undergraduate or graduate student of US universities among the list in the ESEP website

Typical award amount

$2,000 in case of a free room

Duplicate Scholarship Application

Each program/internship has, as FUTI understands, its own scholarship program. You can apply for both but can’t get both. FUTI scholarship is designed to be slightly more beneficial and more prestigious.

Application Material

Please submit the following materials through FUTI’s online application system, separately from your application to the UTokyo programs/internships.

Since we do not provide any “save” feature, we recommend you first to look at the application system and to be sure that you have gathered all the required information before you begin.

1. Information about yourself, including your name, school and department, major field of study, and year (e.g., junior year, 2nd year graduate student), and the study abroad program office of your university.Also information, if applicable, about your host in UTokyo or its affiliated institution, department/laboratory, your host professor/researcher and their phone and email address.
2. An essay written in English, about 500 words long.  The most important point in it is a clear statement of your objectives of participation in the summer program/internship in relation with your career objectives and future contribution plan.  It is also your opportunity to demonstrate your ability to express ideas in your own words.
3. A copy of your transcript (i.e., academic record). If a transcript cannot be provided for legitimate reasons, FUTI will infer a score and use a score range of 70-100% of the inferred score.
4. Your brief CV (curriculum vitae) , including your academic background, work experiences, thesis or research topics (if any), extracurricular activities, publications & reports, awards & prizes (e.g., scholarships). FUTI regards leadership and vitality important. Express them in your CV. No format is specified, but please refer to a sample CV here.
5. Name, phone and email address of your reference, whom you have asked to write a recommendation letter. The recommendation letter can be in either Japanese or English. Please ask your reference (i.e., recommender) well in advance to email a recommendation letter directly to recommend [at] friendsofutokyo.org.

Application Deadline

End of February, 2020. Note that the deadline for the recommendation letters is the same.

Evaluation

Your application is evaluated on (1) the objectives of study abroad expressed in your essay, (2) academic performances considering differences of schools, (3) leadership and vitality expressed in your CV and (4) the recommendation.

FUTI will notify you about the decision by the last week of April.  (In case your deadline might be extended to April because of Note 1, the result would be notified by the last week of May.)

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Description of programs/internships

(A) UCEAP, MISTI, and IRCN
(B) Summer Programs/Internships at University of Tokyo which you found yourself

Eligibility for FUTI Scholarships

1. You must be a student in universities/colleges in the US, regardless of nationalities or citizenships. A non-US branch of a US university is not considered.
2. You must satisfy the eligibility of, be admitted to and participate in the program/internship. It is not necessary to satisfy everything at the time of application.
3. Regarding (B) above, send your inquiry for eligibility of the program/internship to FUTI first through the form at the bottom.

Typical award amount

Up to $4,000 depending on the situation

Application Material

Please submit the following materials through FUTI’s online application system, separately from your application to the UTokyo programs/internships.

Since we do not provide any “save” feature, we recommend you first to look at the application system and to be sure that you have gathered all the required information before you begin.

1. Information about yourself, including your name, school and department, major field of study, and year (e.g., junior year, 2nd year graduate student), and the study abroad program office of your university.Also information, if applicable, about your host in UTokyo or its affiliated institution, department/laboratory, your host professor/researcher and their phone and email address.
2. An essay written in English, about 500 words long.  The most important point in it is a clear statement of your objectives of participation in the summer program/internship in relation with your career objectives and future contribution plan.  It is also your opportunity to demonstrate your ability to express ideas in your own words.
3. A copy of your transcript (i.e., academic record). If a transcript cannot be provided for legitimate reasons, FUTI will infer a score and use a score range of 70-100% of the inferred score.
4. Your brief CV (curriculum vitae) , including your academic background, work experiences, thesis or research topics (if any), extracurricular activities, publications & reports, awards & prizes (e.g., scholarships). FUTI regards leadership and vitality important. Express them in your CV. No format is specified, but please refer to a sample CV here.
5. Name, phone and email address of your reference, whom you have asked to write a recommendation letter. The recommendation letter can be in either Japanese or English. Please ask your reference (i.e., recommender) well in advance to email a recommendation letter directly to recommend [at] friendsofutokyo.org.

Application Deadline

End of February, 2020. Note that the deadline for the recommendation letters is the same. However, if you have any reason for which the deadline cannot be met, tell FUTI ahead of time. Depending on the reasons, FUTI may make an exception to extend the deadline to the end of April.

Evaluation

Your application is evaluated on (1) the objectives of study abroad expressed in your essay, (2) academic performances considering differences of schools, (3) leadership and vitality expressed in your CV and (4) the recommendation.

FUTI will notify you about the decision by the last week of April.  (In case your deadline might be extended to April because of Note 1, the result would be notified by the last week of May.)

Program/Internship Eligibility Inquiry

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FUTI奨学金への申込資格

1. 米国の大学・大学院に留学を希望する東大の学部または大学院の学生。国籍・市民権は問わない。米国大学の米国以外の分校は対象外。
2. 留学先の申込資格を満たし、受入れ許可を得て、参加すること。申込時点で全てを満たしている必要は無い。
3. Yale または UCBのIARU GSPに参加。 国際交流課扱い。

典型的な奨学金の金額

$3,000

併給

1. FUTIは他の奨学金との併給（＝２つ以上の奨学金の受給）は許容しますが、報告して頂きます。しかしそれが必要経費以上にならぬように調整します。そのために国際交流課とは緊密に情報交換します。
2. 他の奨学金の規則で併給を認めないか、制限する場合が多いので注意。
3. JASSOの奨学金との併給の場合は、FUTI奨学金は原則として ①JASSO月額以内の追加奨学金、②旅費、③FUTIが直接大学に送金する納付金の範囲とします。

応募

以下の資料をFUTIのオンライン応募システムから提出して下さい。米大学への応募とは別であることに留意して下さい。

応募の途中結果を保存する機能は無いので、まず応募システムを見て、必要情報を全て集めたと確認してから、記入を始めて下さい。

1. ご自身の情報：氏名、学部・学科・専攻、学年、コンタクトしている東大の留学窓口。また留学先の大学、学部・学科・専攻またはプログラム名、もしあれば受入れ側の教授・研究者とその電話番号・メイル番地。
2. 英語500語程度のエッセイ。一番重要なのは、あなたの人生の目標と将来の貢献計画との関係で、夏季プログラム/インターンに参加する目的を明確に記述することです。またお考えをご自身の言葉で表現できる能力を明示するよい機会でもあります。
3. 学業成績表、TOEFL/IELTS/TOEIC成績のコピー。加えて、東大のように学業成績表にGPA（成績の単位数重み平均）の自動計算が含まれていない場合には、こちらの計算表を参照して各自GPAを計算して頂くと共に、その計算表を成績表と共に添付して下さい。やむを得ざる正当な理由で、学業成績・英語成績の記載が不備の場合は、FUTIが推定し、理由により推定値の70-100%を使用します。
4. 簡単な英文経歴書CV (curriculum vitae) 。日本語の履歴書／日本書式の履歴書は不可。具体的にはacademic background, work experiences, thesis or research topics (if any), extracurricular activities, publications & reports, awards & prizes (e.g. scholarships) などを記載して下さい。FUTIでは、リーダシップや積極性を重視します。これらをCVに表現して下さい。書式指定はありませんが、サンプルは参照できます。
5. 推薦状 (Reference)依頼先の氏名、電話番号、email番地を記載して下さい。推薦状は日本語または英語で頼んで下さい。FUTIでは、他の奨学金よりも恐らく推薦状を重視します。依頼先などに関してはFAQを参照して下さい。毎年推薦状が締切に間に合わず選考からもれる応募者があります。依頼先には充分余裕をもって頼み、推薦状はrecommend [at] friendsofutokyo.orgに直接emailで送付するよう依頼して下さい。

応募締切

2020年2月末日。推薦状の締切も同時。

選考

応募は次の各点から選考されます。(1) エッセイに書かれている留学の目的、(2) 学業成績と英語成績、(3) CVに表現されているリーダシップと積極性、(4) 推薦状

最終結果は4月最終週までにお報せします。

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FUTI奨学金への申込資格

1. 米国の大学・大学院に留学を希望する東大の学部または大学院の学生。国籍・市民権は問わない。米国大学の米国以外の分校は対象外。
2. 留学先の申込資格を満たし、受入れ許可を得て、参加すること。申込時点で全てを満たしている必要は無い。
3. 国際交流課の留学プログラムの中の米国の協定大学のプログラムに参加。

典型的な奨学金の金額

$4,000

併給

1. FUTIは他の奨学金との併給（＝２つ以上の奨学金の受給）は許容しますが、報告して頂きます。しかしそれが必要経費以上にならぬように調整します。そのために国際交流課とは緊密に情報交換します。
2. 他の奨学金の規則で併給を認めないか、制限する場合が多いので注意。
3. JASSOの奨学金との併給の場合は、FUTI奨学金は原則として ①JASSO月額以内の追加奨学金、②旅費、③FUTIが直接大学に送金する納付金の範囲とします。

応募

以下の資料をFUTIのオンライン応募システムから提出して下さい。米大学への応募とは別であることに留意して下さい。

応募の途中結果を保存する機能は無いので、まず応募システムを見て、必要情報を全て集めたと確認してから、記入を始めて下さい。

1. ご自身の情報：氏名、学部・学科・専攻、学年、コンタクトしている東大の留学窓口。また留学先の大学、学部・学科・専攻またはプログラム名、もしあれば受入れ側の教授・研究者とその電話番号・メイル番地。
2. 英語500語程度のエッセイ。一番重要なのは、あなたの人生の目標と将来の貢献計画との関係で、夏季プログラム/インターンに参加する目的を明確に記述することです。またお考えをご自身の言葉で表現できる能力を明示するよい機会でもあります。
3. 学業成績表、TOEFL/IELTS/TOEIC成績のコピー。加えて、東大のように学業成績表にGPA（成績の単位数重み平均）の自動計算が含まれていない場合には、こちらの計算表を参照して各自GPAを計算して頂くと共に、その計算表を成績表と共に添付して下さい。やむを得ざる正当な理由で、学業成績・英語成績の記載が不備の場合は、FUTIが推定し、理由により推定値の70-100%を使用します。
4. 簡単な英文経歴書CV (curriculum vitae) 。日本語の履歴書／日本書式の履歴書は不可。具体的にはacademic background, work experiences, thesis or research topics (if any), extracurricular activities, publications & reports, awards & prizes (e.g. scholarships) などを記載して下さい。FUTIでは、リーダシップや積極性を重視します。これらをCVに表現して下さい。書式指定はありませんが、サンプルは参照できます。
5. 推薦状 (Reference)依頼先の氏名、電話番号、email番地を記載して下さい。推薦状は日本語または英語で頼んで下さい。FUTIでは、他の奨学金よりも恐らく推薦状を重視します。依頼先などに関してはFAQを参照して下さい。毎年推薦状が締切に間に合わず選考からもれる応募者があります。依頼先には充分余裕をもって頼み、推薦状はrecommend [at] friendsofutokyo.orgに直接emailで送付するよう依頼して下さい。

応募締切

2020年2月末日。推薦状の締切も同時。

選考

応募は次の各点から選考されます。(1) エッセイに書かれている留学の目的、(2) 学業成績と英語成績、(3) CVに表現されているリーダシップと積極性、(4) 推薦状

最終結果は4月最終週までにお報せします。

Make sure of your eligibility first before applying.

Click on the appropriate link to the application form which fits your category.

Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship (FIRST YEAR applications)

Ito Foundation U.S.A.-FUTI Scholarship (OTHER applications)

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簡単な説明

(A) GEfIL, IRCN
(B) ご自分で探した夏季プログラム/インターンで、充分レベルが高いもの

FUTI奨学金への申込資格

1. 米国の大学・大学院に留学を希望する東大の学部または大学院の学生。国籍・市民権は問わない。米国大学の米国以外の分校は対象外。
2. 留学先の申込資格を満たし、受入れ許可を得て、参加すること。申込時点で全てを満たしている必要は無い。
3. 上記(B)については、米国大学の参加プログラム/インターンが申込資格を満たすか否か至急下記のフォームでFUTIに問い合わせて下さい。米国の大学本体以外が主催の場合は、認められない場合があります。

典型的な奨学金の金額

$4,000

併給

1. FUTIは他の奨学金との併給（＝２つ以上の奨学金の受給）は許容しますが、報告して頂きます。しかしそれが必要経費以上にならぬように調整します。そのために国際交流課とは緊密に情報交換します。
2. 他の奨学金の規則で併給を認めないか、制限する場合が多いので注意。
3. JASSOの奨学金との併給の場合は、FUTI奨学金は原則として ①JASSO月額以内の追加奨学金、②旅費、③FUTIが直接大学に送金する納付金の範囲とします。

応募

以下の資料をFUTIのオンライン応募システムから提出して下さい。米大学への応募とは別であることに留意して下さい。

応募の途中結果を保存する機能は無いので、まず応募システムを見て、必要情報を全て集めたと確認してから、記入を始めて下さい。

1. ご自身の情報：氏名、学部・学科・専攻、学年、コンタクトしている東大の留学窓口。また留学先の大学、学部・学科・専攻またはプログラム名、もしあれば受入れ側の教授・研究者とその電話番号・メイル番地。
2. 英語500語程度のエッセイ。一番重要なのは、あなたの人生の目標と将来の貢献計画との関係で、夏季プログラム/インターンに参加する目的を明確に記述することです。またお考えをご自身の言葉で表現できる能力を明示するよい機会でもあります。
3. 学業成績表、TOEFL/IELTS/TOEIC成績のコピー。加えて、東大のように学業成績表にGPA（成績の単位数重み平均）の自動計算が含まれていない場合には、こちらの計算表を参照して各自GPAを計算して頂くと共に、その計算表を成績表と共に添付して下さい。やむを得ざる正当な理由で、学業成績・英語成績の記載が不備の場合は、FUTIが推定し、理由により推定値の70-100%を使用します。
4. 簡単な英文経歴書CV (curriculum vitae) 。日本語の履歴書／日本書式の履歴書は不可。具体的にはacademic background, work experiences, thesis or research topics (if any), extracurricular activities, publications & reports, awards & prizes (e.g. scholarships) などを記載して下さい。FUTIでは、リーダシップや積極性を重視します。これらをCVに表現して下さい。書式指定はありませんが、サンプルは参照できます。
5. 推薦状 (Reference)依頼先の氏名、電話番号、email番地を記載して下さい。推薦状は日本語または英語で頼んで下さい。FUTIでは、他の奨学金よりも恐らく推薦状を重視します。依頼先などに関してはFAQを参照して下さい。毎年推薦状が締切に間に合わず選考からもれる応募者があります。依頼先には充分余裕をもって頼み、推薦状はrecommend [at] friendsofutokyo.orgに直接emailで送付するよう依頼して下さい。
6. 必要奨学金申請。

応募締切

2020年2月末日。推薦状の締切も同時。但し（註１）

選考

応募は次の各点から選考されます。(1) エッセイに書かれている留学の目的、(2) 学業成績と英語成績、(3) CVに表現されているリーダシップと積極性、(4) 推薦状

最終結果は4月最終週までにお報せします。（註１で締切が4月末に延長された場合は5月最終週までに）

(註１) 締切に間に合わせられない理由がある場合には、FUTIに至急連絡して下さい。事情により、例外的に4月末日まで締切を延長する場合があります。

Masako M. Osako (大迫政子) is Executive Director of the International Longevity Center (ILC) Global Alliance, a partnership of 15 ILCs from around the world ( www.ilc-alliance.org). The ILC Global Alliance’s mission is to help societies address issues of longevity and population aging in a positive and productive manner. Residing in the United States, Masako is active in writing and presenting on various topics involving international aging.

In her capacity as ILC Global Alliance’s Representative to the UN (NY) Masako actively participates in UN programs aimed at promoting the rights of older persons around the world, delivering statements for UN sessions related to ageing.  She serves on the Stakeholder Group on Aging and (the website monitoring team of) the Major Groups and other Stakeholder Coordination Mechanism, both of which focus on the effective implementation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: Agenda 2030. (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/majorgroups/about)

Prior to her position with the ILC Global Alliance, Masako has worked with the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Chicago Branch of Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd. (currently Mizuho Bank), and Fitch Ratings, Ltd.

She was the founder and first President of Satsuki-kai America (University of Tokyo Alumnae group) from 2010 to 2016 and currently serves as Managing Director of Operations at Friends of UTokyo, Inc. In April 2019 she was elected President of Chicago Akamon-kai, an alumni association of UTokyo.

Formerly a student of the University of Tokyo (Economics Department), Ms. Osako received her B.A. in Economics from Harvard University, her MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago, and her PhD in Sociology from Northwestern University.

Yumi Nakayama, D.V.M., Ph.D. (中山由実) is currently a scientist of Hematology/Oncology in Translational Development and Diagnostics at the Celgene Corporation. She specializes in cellular and molecular immunology in hematological malignancy, infectious diseases, organ transplantation, and autoimmune diseases and has spent more than ten years in academia and the biopharma industry, committed to finding improved outcomes and better treatments in cancer and immune disorders through translational research and drug discovery. She has received several honors and awards including Excellence in delivering exceptional results from the Celgene Corporation in 2017 and the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Transplantation in 2010. She received her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from University of Tokyo and her Ph.D. from the Department of Pathobiological Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Vascular and Inflammatory Diseases at University of Maryland, School of Medicine.

Akiko Koide (小出明子) is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine and Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health. She is an expert in protein engineering, directed evolution and microbiology with >25 year experience in cutting-edge research. Together with her husband, Professor Shohei Koide, she has established the Monobody system, technology to generate small synthetic binding protein based on fibronectin type III domain that achieves potency that rivals antibodies. She is known as the mother of all Monobodies. In parallel, she has made important contribution to the development of synthetic antibodies, technology to develop antibodies without the use of animals. Using these powerful technologies, she has been developing novel therapeutics against cancer. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tokyo (農学部農芸化学科), Japan, and has published >70 peer-reviewed articles. She is the proud mother of two amazing daughters.

Shohei Koide, Ph.D. (小出昌平) is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at New York University School of Medicine and the Director of Cancer Biologics platform in the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health.

He is an internationally recognized leader in protein engineering and design. He has made major contributions to the fundamental principles and technologies that enable the creation of synthetic proteins, i.e. proteins with novel functions that have never existed in nature. His current research focus is to develop next-generation therapeutics for most challenging cancers. His independent research group has been funded continuously by grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health since 1997 (www.koidelab.org). He has published over 130 papers and holds 18 issued patents.

He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo and received postdoctoral training at the Scripps Research Institute as a Human Frontier Science Program scholar. He was a member of the University of Tokyo rowing team (体育会漕艇部) and among the finalists in the qualifier for the Los Angeles Olympics. Previously he was Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at University of Chicago (2002-16) and Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (1995-2002).

He is an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and on the editorial boards of Journal of Molecular Biology and Protein Engineering, Design and Selection. He served as a Scientific Director of the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, a private funding agency that stimulates inter-institutional collaboration in the Chicago area.

Takeshi Komoto （河本　雄）serves as Minister at the Japanese Embassy in the United States of America since June 2018. His portfolio covers policy areas including economy, trade, industry and energy.

He joined Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), the predecessor of Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI), in 1993. Much of his career focuses on international affairs.

Before his current assignment, he was the Managing Director for Multilateral Trading System, Trade Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan since June 2017. He was responsible for World Trade Organization (WTO) issues as well as new global rule-makings in areas including digital trade and investment. He led the initiative to launch an exploratory work towards future negotiations on electronic commerce at the WTO in December 2017 at WTO Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 2016-2017, Mr. Komoto was the Director for Bureau of Economic Revitalization of Japan, Cabinet Secretariat of the Japanese government. He was a senior member of the team that puts together the Growth Strategy of ABENOMICS, the structural reform program (“The Third Arrow”) of the economic policy led by Prime Minister Abe. He was also responsible for marketing ABENOMICS to business communities around the world.

Mr. Komoto was the Executive Director of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) New York Office for three years in 2013-2016. His mission was to promote trade and investment between Japan and the United States.

In 2011-2013, he was the Director for FTA/EPA Negotiations and was responsible for a number of negotiations including on China-Japan-Korea (CJK) FTA, Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP, what used to be called ASEAN+6), as well as Japan-Myanmar Bilateral Investment Agreement among others. He played a leading role in launching the negotiations for CJK FTA and RCEP in November 2012.

He was seconded to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat in Singapore in 2008-2011 as Program Director supporting committees on trade and investment as well as customs procedures. In 2010 when Japan was the Chair of APEC meetings, he supported the Japanese Government from the Secretariat as Host Economy Representative.

He worked on World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations in 2004-2006. He designed a Non-Agricultural Market Access (NAMA) ministerial meeting for East Asian countries in Japan which greatly contributed to the agreement in supporting Swiss formula at the 2015 APEC Minster Responsible for Trade (MRT) Meeting in Jeju, South Korea.

He also has an experience of being seconded to Japan Defense Agency in 2002-2004, serving as a chief negotiator with the US Department of Defense on ballistic missile defense. He successfully concluded a deal between Japan and the US to cooperate in procurement and operation of missile defense system.

Mr. Komoto serves on Advisory Committee of Friends of U Tokyo, Inc. (FUTI), US NPO that supports student exchanges between University of Tokyo and US universities, since 2015.

He graduated from University of Tokyo in 1993 where he majored in economics. He received Master of Public Affairs from Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University in the United States in 1998.

He and his wife, Shiho, have three children, Ken, Jun, and Kano.

Takeshi Komoto （河本　雄）

2016年6月より、安倍首相が推進するアベノミクス成長戦略（「第三の矢」の構造改革）を取りまとめる内閣官房日本経済再生総合事務局の参事官を務める。経済産業省から出向。

1993年に経済産業省の前身である通商産業省に入省。入省以来、国際関係の業務を中心に従事。

直前は、日本貿易振興機構（JETRO）のニューヨーク事務所次長を務める。日米間の貿易と投資を促進に取り組む。特に、日本ビジネス及び安倍首相が主導するアベノミクス成長戦略を米国の金融関係者等に営業販売することに注力。

2011年から13年までの間は、経済産業省の経済連携交渉官として日中韓FTA、RCEP（Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership、かつては「ASEAN+6」と呼ばれていた）、日ミャンマー投資協定などを交渉。特に2012年11月の日中韓FTA及び RCEPの交渉立ち上げに大きく貢献。

2008年から2011年の間、シンガポールにあるアジア太平洋経済協力（APEC）の事務局に出向。貿易投資や税関に関連する委員会の運営を担当。日本がAPEC会議の議長国を務めた2010年には、日本政府代表調整連絡官として活躍。

2004年から2006年の間、世界貿易機関（WTO）の交渉にも従事。非農産品市場アクセス交渉に関し、東アジア閣僚会議を企画し、2015年に韓国の済州島で開催されたAPEC貿易担当大臣会合におけるスイス・フォーミュラ支持の合意を導いた。

2002年から2004年の間、防衛庁に出向し、弾道ミサイル防衛に関して米国防省と交渉。ミサイル防衛システムの調達と運用に関し、日米合意を導いた。

東京大学経済学部を1993年に卒業。米国のプリンストン大学ウッドローウィルソン校にて公共政策学修士号を1998年に取得。

妻の志歩と賢、惇、佳乃の三人の子供に恵まれる。

マッチング・ギフト制度を利用して、ご寄付を二倍に！

米国では多数の企業がマッチング・ギフト制度を設け、従業員及び退職者が慈善団体への寄附する事を奨励しています。従業員または退職者の寄付に対し、１対１のマッチングがなされることが普通です。　例えば、貴方がFUTI に５００ドルの寄附をされた場合には、マッチング額の５００ドルも合わせて、貴方は１０００ドルの寄付者として私共の名簿に掲載されます。(ただし、所得税控除に関しては、ご自身が寄附された額のみが対象となります。〉

FUTIは新しい団体ですので、マッチング・ギフト制度の対象となる資格を有する団体であることを、貴社の担当者はご存知ないかも知れません。FUTIは２００７年９月２７日に、内国歳入法170 条(b)(1)(A)(vi)項により、大衆慈善団体（Public Charity）として認可され、同法５０１条（ｃ）３項により、非課税の資格を有する（Tax Exempt）団体として認められている旨を、貴社の担当者にお伝えください。

マッチング・ギフト制度をお使い頂くには、以下の手続きをして下さい。

1. 先ず、貴社にマッチング・ギフト制度があるか否かを、確認して下さい。
2. 制度がある場合は、申込書と寄付に関するガイドラインを取り寄せて下さい。
3. ご寄附の金額を決められ、記入された申込書を、FUTI事務局まで送って下さい。

下記の企業にはマッチング・ギフト制度がございます。この制度を有する企業は、他にも多数あると思います。お気付きの方はご連絡ください。企業名、担当者のお名前、電子メール、電話番号等をお教え下さい。

マッチング・ギフト制度を有する企業リスト：

• Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ
• Deloitte & Touche LLP
• Mizuho Financial Group
• Mitsubishi International Corporation
• Mitsui USA
• Morrison Foerster
• Toyota Motor Credit Corporation
• Toyota Motor Sales, USA
• Toyota Technical Center

FUTIに有価証券の寄附をする事をご検討下さい。有価証券をFUTIに譲渡される前に、下記の申込書をご提出ください。

寄附者が70½才以上で、IRA 口座をお持ちの場合は“IRA　チャリタブル・ロールオーバー（IRA Charitable Rollover）をご活用いただけます。IRAからの支給金（Distribution）は通常、課税所得です。しかし、上記規定を適用し、慈善団体に寄附をされると、年に１０万ドルまで非課税所得になります。IRAの口座から慈善団体に寄附された額は、IRA口座の持ち主に要求される最小支給額（RMD：Required Minimum Distribution）の一部として計上されます。

詳細は以下のとおりです。

• 支給金を引き出す時点で、寄付者は少なくとも70½才であること。
• IRAからの支給金から、年に最高１０万ドルまで適格(qualified)慈善団体に寄付することが出来る。
• 支給金は、寄付者のIRAの管理者により、IRA口座から、慈善団体に直接、送金する。
• 慈善団体に寄付された支給金は、貴方のRMDを満たす分に計上することが出来る。
• この寄付は　調整総所得 (Adjusted Gross Income)を減らすので、所得税を減らす効果がある。
• この規定はIRAのみに適用され、401(k),403(b)には適用出来ぬ。

IRAからの支給金を寄付される前に、下記の申込書をご提出いただき、振込先銀行に関する情報を差し上げます。

寄付基金（Endowment Fund）は今後永年に亘り、FUTI の活動に財政的な安定を確保するための財源です。

寄付基金に投入された現金、有価証券、及び他の資産はFUTI理事会と提携する基金運用専門家によって投資されます。寄付申込書で、「寄付基金（Endowment）への寄付」を選ばれますと、あなたの寄付金はFUTI一般の寄付基金に投入されます。

法人および篤志家の皆様には、特別の寄付基金を是非作って頂きたくお願い申しあげます。寄付基金の名称は、寄付者ご自身のお名前でも、賛辞を贈りたい方（例えば、ご両親、最愛の人、恩師など）のお名前でも結構です。５万ドル、１０万ドル、２５万ドル、５０万ドル、或いは１００万ドルの寄付基金の誓約をして頂き、５年間の分割払いで寄付して頂きたく思います。

基金はFUTI の所有になりますが、寄付者の投資に対するご意向（控えめ、中庸、或いは、やや積極的な投資）を出来るだけ配慮させて頂きます。１０万ドルの基金は投資利益率（基金運用家の手数料等を差し引き後) が５％であれば、年に５千ドル運用資金を生みます。どの様な活動を援助すべきかも、ご相談致したいと思います。例えば、夏季インターンシップ・プログラムにご関心があれば、投資からの収入で、毎年一人のインターンを充分援助できるでしょう。選ばれた優秀な学生に手渡される賞状には、あなたのお名前と署名がスポンサーとして明記されます。

FUTIの様々な活動を支える私共の使命と、明日のグローバル・リーダーを目指して抱負と才能に満ちた学生達を支援・育成したいという貴方の願望とは、大いに合致する面が多いと信じます。FUTIに寄付基金を設ける事は、貴方の目標を達成する為の素晴らしい方策であると思います。貴方がこれまでの人生で築かれた資産の一部を、将来の世代に役立てたいと思う貴方の夢を達成するお手伝いをするのがFUTIの役割でもあります。

詳細に関しましては、下記のフォームまでお問い合わせ下さい。

遺言や生前信託に予め寄贈先を定めておくことは、貴方の遺産を世に有効に残す素晴らしい方法です。遺贈の方法には様々の種類あります。例えば

• 特定遺贈（Specific bequest）：特定な金額、全遺産の特定のパーセント、或いは、特定な資産　(例えば、有価証券、不動産、動産)　を遺贈する。
• 残余遺贈 （Residuary bequest）：他のすべての特定遺贈、負債、税金、出費等を、全遺産から差し引いて残った残余遺産の全部或いは特定のパーセントを遺贈する。
• 暫時遺贈（Contingency bequest）：ある特定の状況が起きた場合　(例えば、指名された受益者全員が既に亡くなられた場合)　に全財産或いはその特定のパーセントを遺贈する。

貴方の財政上の目的や事情に応じて最適な遺贈をお選び下さい。信託管理者、ファイナンシャル・アドバイザー、弁護士等とご相談下さい。

もしFUTIに寄贈して下さる場合は、貴方のギフトをどの様に使うべきかを、ご指定下さい。

• 基金遺贈（Endowment bequest ）をされた場合は、 FUTI は貴方の遺贈を永久に投資する義務があり、投資利益のみをFUTI の活動に費やす事が出来ます。寄付基金を設けることは貴方の遺産が永久に残る事を意味します。制約付遺贈(下記参照)同様、貴方の希望するプログラム或いはプロジェクトを指定出来ます。
• 無制約遺贈（Unrestricted bequest）をされた場合は、 FUTIは貴方からのギフトを資金が一番必要な活動に割り振る事が出来ます。
• 制約付遺贈（Restricted bequest）をされた場合は、貴方ご自身がギフトをどの活動に使うべきかを指定出来ます。しかし、貴方の指定されたプログラムが不可能、非現実的、あるいは違法的となるような事態になった場合は、貴方の希望に近いプログラムをFUTI理事会が決められるという規定を付け加える事をお奨めします。

詳細に関しましては、下記のフォームまでお問い合わせ下さい。

お子様方が皆成人し、将来たとえ貴方が亡くなられても、ご遺族が経済的に心配なく生活出来る程の資産を十分築かれた方は、何十年も前に加入し、今や必要性の低くなった生命保険をFUTIに譲渡することが可能です。生命保険ポリシーの譲渡には二通りの方法があります。

• FUTIを第一次または第二次受益者とすることにより、FUTIに譲渡される生命保険額は慈善団体への寄附として、貴方の全遺産（Estate）から税金控除することが可能です。
• 保険料払込済の生命保険契約の所有者及び受益者をFUTIとすることにより、税控除の特典が受けられます。

下記のフォームをご提出いただければ保険ポリシーの寄付についてご相談できます。

Friends of UTokyo へのオンラインご寄付は、ペイパル（PayPal）を介して寄付者のクレジットカード或いは銀行口座から支払う形で行われます。

クレジット・カードの登録住所をアメリカ国内にお持ちでない方：
ペイパル口座を開いていただく必要がございます。ペイパル口座は開設するのも維持するのも無料です。登録する銀行の検証に二日か三日を要しますが、それが済めば、銀行の口座、クレジット･カードのいずれからも簡単にお支払いが出来ます。ペイパルは世界中で利用されている決済サービスですので、是非この際にペイパル口座を開かれることをお勧めいたします。ペイパルに関する詳しい説明は、ペイパルのウェブサイトをご参照下さい。

クレジット・カードの登録住所をアメリカ国内にお持ちの方：
ペイパル口座を開かずに直接クレジット・カードにチャージすることによりご寄付が出来ますが、一回の支払額がに制限があります。厳密に申し上げますと、月に２千ドル迄に限られます。これは小規模の非営利団体であるFUTIとペイパル社と取り決めによる制限です。ペイパル口座を開かずに、FUTIへ２千ドル以上ご寄付をご希望の方は、毎回の支払い額を２千ドルあるいはそれ以下に抑え、支払いの間隔を３０日とする分割払いをされるのが宜しいと思います。

ペイパル口座を開設されますと、FUTIへのご寄付を毎回１万ドルまで出来ます。ペイパル口座は開くのも維持するのも無料です。登録する銀行の検証に二日か三日を要しますが、それが済めば、銀行の口座、クレジット･カードのいずれからも簡単にお支払いが出来ます。ペイパルは世界中で利用されている決済サービスですので、是非この際にペイパル口座を開かれることをお勧めいたします。ペイパルに関する詳しい説明は、ペイパルのウェブサイトをご参照下さい。

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Many companies offer a matching gift program whereby an employee’s and/or retiree’s gift to a charitable organization like FUTI will be matched by the company, typically by the same amount, i.e., 1 to 1 matching. If your company or former employer recognizes FUTI as an eligible organization, your donation of, for example, $500 will be become a $1,000 gift to FUTI, and it will be recognized as such (although for your income tax deduction purpose, the amount is what you personally donate).

If your employer asks for our qualification to be eligible for a matching gift please contact us. We were granted, effective September 27, 2007, Public Charity status under section 170 (b)(1)(A)(vi), and are tax exempt under IRS Tax Code, section 501 (c)(3).

If you take the following three steps, we will take care of the rest.

1. Check with your company to see whether the company offers a matching gift program.
2. If it does, ask for a “matching gift form” of the company together with its donation guideline.
3. Decide how much you want to donate to FUTI. Fill out the form and mail it to the FUTI office.

We have found the following companies to have a matching gift program. If your employer and/or other companies you know of offer a matching gift program and are not listed below, please write to us. Please include the name, email and/or phone of the contact person.

Selected List of Companies with Matching Gift Program:

• Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ
• Deloitte & Touche LLP
• Mizuho Financial Group
• Mitsubishi International Corporation
• Mitsui USA
• Morrison Foerster
• Toyota Motor Credit Corporation
• Toyota Motor Sales, USA
• Toyota Technical Center

A planned provision in a will or living trust is also a great way to leave your legacy. There are several types of bequests to consider, depending on your financial objectives. Please consult with your Trust, administrator, financial advisor or attorney.

• Specific bequest: You bequeath (i.e., make a bequest) to FUTI a specific dollar amount or specific percentage of your estate. Or you bequeath to FUTI specific assets such as securities, real estates or personal property.
• Residuary bequest: You bequeath to FUTI all or a specific percentage of the “rest, residue and remainder” of your estate, after all other specific bequest, debts, taxes and expenses have been paid.
• Contingency bequest: You bequeath to FUTI all or a stated percentage of your estate, if certain circumstances should occur, such as all named beneficiaries pre-decease you.

When you bequeath to FUTI, please consider how your gift should be used to support FUTI.

• Endowment bequest requires FUTI to invest your bequest permanently and spend only the earnings to support FUTI’s activities. Creation of an endowment fund means that your legacy will remain indefinitely. You may specify a program or project of your choice, as in a restricted bequest.
• Unrestricted bequest allows FUTI to decide the allocation of your gift to FUTI’s grant programs where the need is greatest.
• Restricted bequest allows you to specify how your gift should be used. You may wish to designate a specific program of FUTI (e.g., a scholarship program for a UTokyo student). However, it is advisable to add a provision that allows the FUTI Board to determine a program that is closest to your preference, in the event your specified program should become impossible, impractical or illegal.

Please submit the following form for further inquiry.

You may have a life insurance policy that has outlived your original purpose, with all your children having grown up, and having accumulated enough assets to guarantee the financial security of your heirs. Such life insurance can be used for philanthropic purposes. There are two different ways you can structure a gift of life insurance to FUTI.

• Name FUTI as a Beneficiary: By naming FUTI as the primary or secondary beneficiary of the policy, your Estate may be able to claim a charitable deduction for the proceeds that will pass to FUTI.
• Transfer the ownership to FUTI: By making FUTI the owner and beneficiary of your paid-up policy, you may be entitled to a tax deduction.

Please submit the following form to further discuss donating a life insurance policy.

The purpose of the endowment fund is to secure financial stability in FUTI’s activities for many years to come.

Money, securities and other assets donated into the endowment fund will be invested by a professional fund manager appointed by FUTI. If you select “FUTI Endowment Fund” under Donation Use, your gift will be poured into FUTI’s general Endowment Fund.

We welcome corporate sponsors and generous individuals to establish a special endowment fund that carries your own name or any individual (or organization) to whom you wish to pay a tribute, for instance, your parent, loved one or your teacher. We encourage you to make a pledge of $50,000, $100,000, $250,000, $500,000 or $1,000,000, which can be paid in installments over a period of five years.

Although the fund belongs to FUTI, we will accommodate your preference as much as possible with regard to the investment style (conservative, moderate, somewhat aggressive). A $100,000 endowment fund is expected to generate $5,000 a year, if the investment return is 5% (after deducting the fund management company’s commission). We will also consult with you on what programs should be supported by your endowment fund. If you are interested in, for instance, supporting our summer internship program, the investment income from your fund will comfortably support one summer intern every year. Your name will then be printed and signed by you as his/her sponsor in the award certificate to be given to the selected outstanding student.

If you find the worthwhile cause of FUTI activities to be very much in line with your desire to nurture talented and aspiring students to become global leaders of tomorrow, establishing your own endowment fund with FUTI is a great way to achieve your objective. FUTI will be working with you to fulfill your dream to return a portion of what you have earned to a good cause for future generations.

For further inquiry, please contact us using the form below.

Please consider a gift of securities to Friends of UTokyo, Inc (FUTI). Before you transfer your securities to FUTI, please fill out and submit the below Donation of Securities Form. Then an appropriate individual from FUTI will get in touch with you and discuss necessary procedures.

An IRA owner age 70½ and older may take advantage of the IRA charitable rollover provision. This provision allows an older taxpayer to make tax-free distributions of up to US$100,000 from his/her IRA to qualified charitable organizations, such as FUTI. Charitable distributions from the IRA can be used to satisfy the annual required minimum distribution (RMD).

Details of the provision:

• You must be of age 70½ or older on the date of the distribution.
• A maximum of US$100,000 per year may be distributed to qualified charitable organizations.
• Distributions must be transmitted from either your financial advisor or your IRA custodian directly to a charitable organization like FUTI.
• Distributions to charity can be applied to satisfy your required minimum distribution (RMD).
• The donation will reduce your adjusted gross income (AGI) for the year, and thus reduce your tax obligations.
• This provision applies to IRAs only, and does not apply to other forms of retirement plans such as 401(k) and 403(b) .

Before transferring your distribution. Please fill out and submit the Donation By IRA Form below. We will provide FUTI’s bank information such as ABA and account numbers to the provided email address.

Our online donation system utilizes PayPal which allows donations to be made by credit card or from a bank account.

If your credit card billing address is outside of the U.S.:

A PayPal account will be necessary in order to make a donation. Opening a PayPal account is free and safe. It may take 2-3 business days to open and verify the account, but once it is verified, a payment may be made either by credit card or bank account.

If your credit card billing address is within the U.S.:

A PayPal account will not be necessary to make a donation. However, without a PayPal account there will be a $2000 transaction limit per month. In order to make a donation of more than $2000 without opening a PayPal account, the payments can be separated into monthly installments.

Please note that due to a special agreement between PayPal and FUTI as a small non-profit organization, there are transaction limits. PayPal account holders have a $10,000 limit for a single transaction, while for non-account holders the limit is $2,000 per transaction per month.

Yuichiro Kuwama, M.D. (桑間雄一郎) has been Medical Director at the Japanese Medical Practice Division of Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York since 2000. Dr. Kuwama serves as one of the primary care physicians for the Japanese community in the greater New York Metropolitan Area. He also engages in medical education activities by teaching medical students at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and doctors-in-training at Mount Sinai Beth Israel. He is currently an associate professor of medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

After graduating from the Faculty of Medicine, the University of Tokyo in 1987, Dr. Kuwama joined the Department of Surgery at the University of Tokyo Hospital. He was qualified by the Board of Japan Surgical Society in 1991. After passing the United States Medical Licensing Examination, he started his training as an internist at Beth Israel Medical Center in 1993. He received an Internal Medicine Resident Award at the completion of his training in 1996. He was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) in 1996. He returned to Tokyo in 1997 to accept an Assistant Professorship (“Koshi”) at his alma mater. He was also a researcher at the Japan Medical Association Research Institute (JMARI). He was invited to his current position at Beth Israel Medical Center in 2000. In 2006 he was inducted into the Leo M Davidoff Society, which honors teachers who have made significant contributions to the education of students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Kuwama is married to Dr. Chika Kuwama who is also a physician and an alumna of the University of Tokyo, the Faculty of Medicine. They live in New Jersey and have three sons.

桑間　雄一郎　医師　2000年よりマウントサイナイベスイスラエル病院内東京海上記念診療所院長。桑間医師はニューヨーク地区の主として日系人対象に内科一般医療を提供している。桑間医師は医学教育活動にも従事し、マウントサイナイ医科大学の学生やマウントサイナイベスイスラエル病院の研修医に、准教授として教鞭をとっている。東京大学医学部医学科を1987年に卒業後、同医学部外科研修、1991年に外科認定医となる。そして、米国医師免許試験に合格後、1993年からマウントサイナイベスイスラエル病院の前身であるベスイスラエルメディカルセンターで内科研修を開始、1996年には同内科最優秀研修医賞を受賞、同年内科専門医資格取得。1997年に日本へ帰国し、東大医学部外科非常勤講師、日本医師会政策研究機構研究員などを務める。2000年にベスイスラエルメディカルセンターに招かれ現職につく。2006年には医学生の教育に優れた業績を残した医師に送られる賞である、アルバートアインスタイン医科大学のレオ・ダビドフ会への殿堂入りをする。配偶者の千佳さんも東大医学部卒業の医師であり、ニュージャージー在住。3人の男子に恵まれている。

Koichi Hamada (濱田宏一) is the Tuntex Professor of Economics Emeritus at Yale University, where he specializes in the Japanese economy and international economics, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo, where he taught before coming to Yale in 1986. He was appointed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as Special Advisor (on Economics) to his new cabinet in December 2012.

Professor Hamada has an L.L.B. (he passed Japan’s national Bar Examination in 1957), and an M.A. in Economics from the University of Tokyo as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. His work on policy coordination, one of which first applied game theory to international finance, was published as The Political Economy of International Monetary Interdependence(MIT Press, 1985), and some of his economic articles are collected in Strategic Approaches to the International Economy: Selected Essays of Koichi Hamada(Edward & Elgar, 1996). He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and served as its council member from 1980 to 1985. Hamada was the President of the Japanese Association of Economics and Econometrics (now the Japan Economic Association) from 1994 to 1995 and was the founding President of the Japan Law and Economics Association in 2003 (now its honorary fellow). In 2006 he was awarded the imperial decoration, the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star (瑞宝章), which is conferred on those who have accumulated distinguished achievements for Japan.

In Japan, he participated in many policy committees at the Ministry of Finance, MITI, the Economic Planning Agency and other ministries. Hamada also serves as one of the associate editors for many journals including Econometrica, Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Development Economics and Journal of the Japanese and International Economies.

Hamada’s game-theoretic study of international monetary relations is regarded as one of the first studies that drew attention to the strategic aspects of macroeconomic policy in interdependent nations. He was one among the few who applied the methodology of “Law and Economics” to Japan’s legal system in the 1970s. His current research topics include: international capital movements, regional integration, political economy of international monetary reform, economics and politics of Japan’s last decade, a comparison of economic functions of the Japanese and the U.S. legal systems.

In 1997, Professor Hamada served as a member of the external evaluation team of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF) Program of the International Monetary Fund by request of its Board of Directors. He was a member of the Consulting Group that advised Mike Moore, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), on the future perspectives for the world trade system, and he was until recently a member of the Consulting Group that advises Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director General of the WTO.

From January 2001 to July 2002, Professor Hamada was on leave from Yale University to serve as the first President of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI, 経済社会総合研究所長), Cabinet Office of the Japanese Government. The ESRI engages in policy-oriented research and compiling the GDP statistics. Hamada was in a position to advise the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy (CEFP 経済財政諮問会議), a body created to promote the administrative reform (構造改革) chaired by the Prime Minister.

Koichi Hamada was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, the Ford Dissertation Fellowship and the Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS) Fellowship. He was a recipient of Nikkei Tosho Bunka Prize (1967) for Economic Growth and Capital Movements, (経済成長と国際資本移動－資本自由化の経済学), the Ekonomisuto prize (1980) for Banking Behavior and Monetary Policy (金融政策と銀行行動). He was also awarded the Otto Eckstein Prize (1988) by the Eastern Economic Association for The Impact of the General Theory in Japan, recognized as the best article in the Eastern Economic Review for the year. In 2009, Professor Hamada was awarded the Abe Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP), and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). This fellowship is intended for international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global concern. Professor Hamada’s proposed area of research is “Ignorance or Vested Interests: A Comparison of Economic Crisis Management in Japan and the United States.”

His latest book 「アメリカは日本経済の復活を知っている」(“America knows that Japan’s Economy Will Revive”) was published by Kodansha Publishing Co. in January 2013.

Sumiko Ito (伊藤澄子)

Sumiko is President of Arcadia Capital, Inc., a strategic consulting firm, which she founded in 1991. Arcadia focuses on providing advice to Japanese and US companies looking to expand cross-border business opportunities. Clients include both major multinational companies, as well as smaller technology-oriented firms. Before founding Arcadia, Sumiko worked as Principal and Head of Japanese Business Development for Alex Brown & Sons in Baltimore, Maryland. Sumiko began her career as an official for the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Japan. She subsequently moved to Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, D.C. and then to Nomura Securities International, Inc. in New York. Her life and career as the first Japanese female investment banker was made into a case study entitled as “ Sumiko Ito” by Prof. David Thomas, which was published by Harvard Business School.

Sumiko is active with contemporary arts and is a former Board Member of the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Japan and presently Hara Museum Fund in New York. She is also active in helping people in area affected by the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake in March 2011 and following nuclear power plant disaster. She is a member of the Board of WIT(World In Tohoku), a Japanese non-profit general association, which invests in social entrepreneurs in the area. She is also a member of the Board of the Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association in San Francisco. She is a Japanese tea master and serves as the New York representative of the Enshu Tea School.

Sumiko received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Tokyo and an M. Phil in Economics from the University of Oxford, where she received a Swire Centennial Scholarship.

Sumiko lives in New York City, with her husband Donald Allison. She also maintains a house in Karuizawa, Japan, where she resides during the summer months.

伊藤澄子氏は、アルカデイア・キャピタル・インク、ニューヨーク、の創立者および代表者である。アルカデイア・キャピタルは、１９９１年に設立され、日本および米国企業にクロスボーダーの経営戦略コンサルティングを提供している。顧客には、国際的な大企業からテクノロジー・ベンチャー企業まで幅広い企業を含む。それ以前は、アレックス・ブラウン・アンド・サンズ・インク、ボルティモア、メリーランド州、のパートナーとして、アジア地域のインベスト・バンキング事業開発を担当した。

伊藤澄子氏のキャリアは、 厚生省(当時)に入省から始まり、環境衛生、児童福祉、年金運用の分野で働いた。その後、１９８０年にアメリカにわたり、ストラテジック・プラニング・アソシエイツ、ワシントン　DC、にコンサルタントとして、米国野村証券、ニューヨーク、に日本女性第一号のインベストメント・バンカーとして勤務した。（伊藤澄子氏のキャリアに関しては、”Sumiko Ito” というタイトルで、ハーバード･ビジネス･スクールからケース･スタディとして出版されている。）

伊藤澄子氏は１９７４年に東大経済学部を卒業、 さらに、スワイヤー１００周年奨学生としてオックスフォード大学に学び、１９８０年に経済学修士課程を修了した。

伊藤氏は現代芸術および日本伝統文化に深い関心を持ち,クロノス・カルテット, サンフランシスコ、ハラ・ミュージアム・ファンド、ニューヨークの理事を勤めるとともに、遠州流茶道のニューヨーク出張所を運営している。また、２０１１年に起きた東日本大震災・福島原発事故で影響を受けた 人々のためのボランティア活動を、災害発生当初から日本と米国において進めており、２０１３年からは、一般社団法人ワールド・イン・トーホクの理事に就任し、被災地の社会起業家を支援する活動に力を入れている。夫、ドナルド・アリソン氏とともに、ニューヨーク市マンハッタンに居住、主に夏の期間は、長野県軽井沢市で過ごす。

Prof. Teruo Fujii received his Ph.D. degree in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering from the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) in 1993. After working at the RIKEN Institute, he was appointed as Associate Professor in 1999 at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), University of Tokyo, and promoted to Full Professor in 2007. Currently he is Executive Director and Vice President of UTokyo in charge of External Relations. He also serves as President of the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS), which is the governing body of the MicroTAS conference, the most important scientific meeting in the field of Microfluidics.

藤井輝夫理事の経歴

• 1964年スイス，チューリッヒ生まれ
• 1983年麻布高校卒業
• 1988年東京大学工学部船舶工学科卒業
• 1990年東京大学大学院工学系研究科船舶工学専攻修士課程修了
• 1993年東京大学大学院工学系研究科船舶海洋工学専攻博士課程修了博士（工学）
• 1993 東京大学生産技術研究所グローブエンジニアリング（トヨタ）寄付研究部門客員助教授、
  助教授
• 1995年理化学研究所勤務
• 1999年東京大学生産技術研究所助教授
• 2007年東京大学生産技術研究所教授
• 2007年LIMMS-CNRS/IIS(UMI 2820)国際連携研究センター共同ディレクター
• 2014年統合バイオメディカルシステム国際研究センター
• 2015年東京大学生産技術研究所教授所長
• 2018年4月東京大学大学執行役・副学長、社会連携本部長

Shigenori (Shig) Matsushita (松下重悳): Upon graduating from the Department of Electrical Engineering (with Major in Communications) of UTokyo in March 1959, he joined Toshiba Corporation in April 1959 where he designed basic transistor circuits for computers. He was a chief design engineer for a patch-board programmed computer and a magnetic drum internal-program computer. In 1962 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and studied at the University of Illinois, where he worked as an assistant to develop a pattern recognition computer, ILLIAC III, in the Digital Computer Laboratory, and received his MS degree in August 1963.

In 1961, a joint research project with the then Assistant Professor Hiroshi Hagiwara of Kyoto University began and the first full-scale microprogrammed computer, KT-P, was completed. This work was presented at the IFIP Congress in 1962 and attracted attention for its variable microprograms, which were implemented by patch-boards and punched hole cards covering photo-transistors. Based on this technology, the development of a high-speed microprogrammed computer, TOSBAC-3400, for commercialization was initiated, for which he served as the chief design engineer. This computer was widely used by computer centers of domestic universities, primarily for FORTRAN calculations and by camera manufacturers for their lens designs.

Toshiba became affiliated with the Computer Division of General Electric, which was then annexed into Honeywell Information Systems (HIS). As a result, HIS became affiliated with both Toshiba and NEC. Mr. Matsushita led a joint HIS-Toshiba project to develop a high-speed computer and its technology , by dispatching several dozens of Toshiba engineers to HIS.

While holding these technical and managerial responsibilities for the company, he studied by himself, in his private hours, to construct a crosstalk theory for digital signals, and received his Doctor of Engineering degree from UTokyo in October 1974.

In 1978, Toshiba transferred its large-scale general-purpose computer business to a joint company with NEC, named “NEC-Toshiba Information Systems,” where he was responsible for business planning, negotiation and contracts. At the same time, Toshiba recognized a new business opportunity in “Office Automation” or “OA”, which could be realized by integrating small-scale computers, communications and business machines. Dr. Matsushita planned, promoted and evangelized the OA business. Later, he was named Associate General Manager of Technology for these businesses, being responsible for administration of these technologies. When the computer group and the control systems group were merged, he became responsible for the technology operations. In 1985 he decided the company’s strategy for an IBM-compatible laptop personal computer, T-1100.

When a new breed of companies emerged overseas, he promoted alliances with overseas companies, including Toshiba’s OEM contract with Sun Microsystems, a joint company with Computer-Vision, a joint company with Olivetti, and a sales contract with Netscape. The contracts with Sun Microsystems and Netscape were the first such contracts done by any Japanese company.

From 1993-96 Dr. Matsushita was the Executive Vice President of Toshiba Information Systems and led a switchover from the custom-made COBOL software development business to the online, packaged or personal computer software business. From 1996-2001, he was President of the Japanese subsidiary of an American start-up company, Wink Communications, whose business was to promote and market an interactive television system.

From 2002-5 he was fully engaged in the establishment and operation of a venture capital firm in Tokyo. Since 2002 to the present , he has been also serving as a director of the Board of a start-up company, DDS Inc., which specializes in fingerprint recognition. Dr. Matsushita helped DDS accomplish its IPO in Tokyo. From 2005 through 2011, he was also on the Board of Directors of an Internet start-up company, Luke 19 Inc., which was acquired by another Internet company.

From 2002 to 2014, he was a visiting professor of the University of Chubu, Nagoya, giving lectures on globalization of economy and on IT applications to a summer business school class for businessmen.

Dr. Matsushita is a member of the Japanese Computer Pioneers elected by the IPSJ (Information Processing Society of Japan) Computer Museum. http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/pioneer/index.html

Nobuko Sakurai (桜井信子) graduated from the University of Tokyo (French Studies), and spent one year in Paris as a student. After working at Air France in Tokyo for six years, she was employed at the Smithsonian Institute when she moved to Washington, D.C. with her husband. She obtained a Master’s Degree in French Studies from American University in Washington DC. During her husband’s second posting in Washington, D.C., she wrote a monthly business report for the Japanese Government’s affiliated organization, Japan Economic Institute, for seven years. She worked at the Japanese company, Forma Corp, in Tokyo, planning and organizing financial forums in Japan for U.S. and French firms from 1995 until 2000, when she moved to New York with her husband. She continued to work part time for Forma from New York until 2006. She served as President of the Nippon Club Women’s Association and co-President of the U.S.-Japan Women’s Association, at which she is currently an advisor. She is a member of Advisory Committee of Lotus Circle of the Asia Foundation, an honorary advisor for the Japanese Business Women’s Association in New York, also a member of the International Visitors Committee at the Cosmopolitan Club in New York. She and her husband have two daughters, one married and living in New York, and the other working for the U.S. Coast Guard.

Nobuko Sakurai (桜井信子) 東京大学仏文仏語科卒業後、東京のエールフランスで6年間勤務。その後夫の転勤に伴いワシントンDCに移住、スミソニアン・インスティチュートに勤務。ワシントンDCのアメリカン大学にてフランス研究科修士号を取得。2度目のワシントン滞在中に、日本国外務省外郭団体であるJapan Economic Institute にて7年間、日本に進出する米企業、米国に進出する日系企業に関するビジネス・リポート作成担当。1995年から2000年、東京のフォルマ・コーポレーションにて米企業、仏企業のためのビジネス会議、セミナーの企画、運営を担当。2000年にニューヨーク移住後も2006年まで同社の翻訳業務を一部担当。日本クラブ婦人部会長、日米婦人会会長を務め、現在はコスモポリタンクラブ（ニューヨーク）International Committee　書記、東南アジアの女性を支援するAsia Foundation Lotus Circleのアドバイザー、日米婦人会アドバイザー。

Hisashi Kobayashi （小林久志） is a former Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Sherman Fairchild University Professor Emeritus of Princeton University. Primary fields of his research have been communication theory, system modeling and performance evaluation, and applied probability theory. He joined the Board of Friends of UTokyo, Inc. (formerly Friends of Todai, Inc.) since its inception in October 2007 as Director, and became President in April 2011, succeeding the Founding President Mr. Junji Masuda and served in that capacity until September 2015, when he became the Chair of the Advisory Committee.

Kobayashi received his BE (1961) and ME (1963) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo, where he was a recipient of the Sugiyama Scholarship of the late Mr. Kintaro Sugiyama, and the David Sarnoff RCA Scholarship. He worked for Toshiba Corporation for two years before he came to Princeton University in 1965 as an Orson Desaix Munn Fellow of Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in two years.

He then joined IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY as a research staff member, where he worked on data transmission theory, and coding and decoding techniques for digital magnetic recording. In 1970-71 he invented a novel scheme for high-density, high-reliability digital recording, now widely known as the PRML (Partial-Response coding, Maximum Likelihood decoding) scheme, for which he was awarded the 2005 Eduard Rhein Technology Award of Germany, and the 2012 NEC C&C Prize in Japan. The PRML scheme has been adopted in virtually all hard disks and optical discs.

Kobayashi was promoted to Manager, Senior Manager and Department Manager of Computer Science Department at the IBM Research Center in 1971, 1974 and 1981, respectively, and was appointed in 1982 as Founding Director of IBM Japan Science Institute  (now IBM Research-Tokyo).

In 1986 he was invited to join the Princeton faculty as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science (1986-91), and as the Sherman Fairchild University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the position he held until he retired in June 2008.

Other recognitions Kobayashi received include a Senior U.S. Scientist Award (1979) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, IBM Outstanding Contribution Awards (1975, 1984), and IBM Invention Achievement Awards (1971, 1973). He became a Fellow (1977) and a Life Fellow (2003) of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IEICE Japan (2004), and a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan (1992). Kobayashi has been listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World since 1982.

He authored Modeling and Analysis (Addison Wesley 1978) and coauthored System Modeling and Analysis (Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2008) and Probability, Random Processes and Statistical Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of an international journal Performance Evaluation (Elsevier, 1979-86).

He was a visiting professor at UCLA (1969-70), University of Hawaii (1975), Stanford University (1976), Technische Universität Darmstadt (1979-80), Université libre de Bruxelles (1980), RCAST of the University of Tokyo (1991-92), and University of Victoria, Canada (1998-99).

He served as an advisor for numerous organizations, including NASA, SRI International, National University of Singapore, Duke University, Advanced Systems Institute of British Columbia, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology of Japan, 21st Century COE Program of JSPS, Institute of Industrial Science of UTokyo, G-Lab of Würzburg, Germany, Toyota Technological Institute, and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan.

Kobayashi was the Guest Speaker at the Opening Ceremony of the Graduate School of UTokyo in April 2010 (Click here for the speech text and YouTube video).　He is an advisor of WINLAB of Rutgers University and serves on the Board of the Armstrong Memorial Research Foundation, Inc. of Columbia University. Hisashi Kobayashi is a younger brother of the mathematician Shoshichi Kobayashi, who was a professor emeritus at UC Berkeley.

For further information, please see his bio in his blog www.HisashiKobayashi.com.

小林久志　(こばやし・ひさし)：プリンストン大学の 元工学部長 およびシャーマン・フェアチャイルド名誉教授。主な研究分野は通信理論、システム解析と性能評価、応用確率論。Friends of Todai, Inc. (Friends of UTokyoの前身）の2007年10月設立以来、理事を務め、2011年4月に初代理事長桝田淳二氏の後継者として2015年9月まで理事長を務めた。

東大電気工学科卒(1961)、同修士卒(1963)。東大在学中に故杉山金太郎氏の奨学金とデイヴィッド・サーノフRCA奨学金を受けた。東芝に2年勤務後、プリンストン大学のオーソン・デゼ・ムン奨学生として渡米、2年後の1967年に同大学より博士号を取得。

プリンストン卒業後直ちにニューヨーク州ヨークタウン・ハイツのIBM トマスJ.ワトソン中央研究所に入社し、データ伝送理論、デジタル磁気記録システムの符号復号方式の研究に従事。1970-1971年にデジタル記録の密度と信頼性を飛躍的に高める斬新的な方式を発明した。この方式はPRML (Partial-Response coding, Maximum Likelihood Decoding) 方式と呼ばれ、今日あらゆるハードディスク、光ディスクに採用されている。この発明により、2005年にドイツのエドワード・ライン財団よりテクノロジー賞を、2012年に日本のNEC C&C 賞を受賞。

IBM中央研究所のコンピュータ・サイエンス部門で、1971に研究マネージャ、1974年にシニア・マネージャ、1981年に部長に昇格したのち、1982年に設立されたIBMジャパン・サイエンス・インスティチュート(現在のIBM東京基礎研究所)の初代所長に任命された。

1986年にプリンストン大学から工学部長および電気工学科・計算機科学科のシャーマン・フェアチャイルド栄誉教授として迎えられ、工学部長を1991年まで務め、2008年6月に退官するまで、同大学で研究・教育に携わった。

上記以外の受賞として、ドイツのアレキサンダー・フォン・フンボルト財団のシニアU.S.科学者賞(1979)、IBM貢献賞(1975、1984)、IBM発明業績賞(1971、1973)、米国電気電子学会のフェロー(1977)、終身フェロー(2003)、日本電子情報通信学会のフェロー(2004)、日本工学アカデミー会員(1992)などがある。Marquis社の米国紳士録、世界紳士録に1982年以来掲載されている。

著書には｢モデル化と解析｣（アディソン・ウェズリー社1978年）、｢システムのモデル化と解析｣(ピアソン・プレンティス・ホール社2008年)、「確率、ランダム過程、統計解析」（ケンブリッジ大学出版、2012年）がある。国際学会誌｢性能解析｣（エルセビア社）の初代の編集主幹を勤めた(1979-86)。

UCLA (1969-70), ハワイ大学 (1975), スタンフォード大学 (1976), ドイツのダームシュタット工科大学 (1979-80), ブラッセル自由大学 (1980), 東京大学先端科学技術研究センター(1991-92), カナダのヴィクトリア大学(1998-99)の客員教授も勤めた。

さらに米国航空宇宙局、SRIインターナショナル、シンガポール大学、デューク大学、ブリティッシュ・コロンビアの高等システム研究所、産業技術総合研究所、 日本学術振興会の21世紀COEプログラム、東大生産技術研究所, ドイツ・ウルツブルグ大学のG-Lab、豊田工業大学、独立行政法人情報通信研究機構などの顧問を務めた。2010年4月の東大大学院入学式で来賓としてスピーチ(その内容とビデオで観るにはここをクリック)。現在、ラトガース大学のWINLABの諮問委員、コロンビア大学のアームストロング記念研究財団の理事を務める。

カリフォルニア大学名誉教授だった数学者故小林昭七氏は実兄にあたる。

詳細についてはブログwww.HisashiKobayashi.com　の　バイオグラフィーを参照されたし。

Dr. Masaaki Yamada (山田雅章) is a Distinguished Laboratory Research Fellow at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the Head of the Magnetic Reconnection Experiment (MRX) research program. He is also a Co-PI of the Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas, a Physics Frontier Center established by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

He received his B.S. degree in Applied Physics and M.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1966 and 1968, respectively, both from the University of Tokyo, and received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois in 1973. He was engaged in many basic plasma physics research programs that were relevant to both fusion and space-astrophysics.

During 1978-1988, he headed the research effort on the spheromak, at that time a new concept for fusion, utilizing the S-1 device. Since the early 1990′s, he has pioneered a new experiment, which became the MRX at PPPL, to explore the fundamental physics of magnetic reconnection. The MRX research has made key discoveries on magnetic reconnection together with many important findings on plasma astrophysics.

Dr. Yamada has authored and co-authored over 200 scientific papers in major refereed journals, including recent review articles in Rev. Modern Phys. (2010) and Ann. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. (2009).

He has been a doctoral thesis advisor for a dozen graduate students of Princeton University, the University of Tokyo, and Purdue University. Dr. Yamada held invited professor positions at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL), Switzerland (1988), Kyoto University (1989), and the University of Tokyo (1994 and 2010). He has been an APS (American Physical Society) Fellow since 1985 and received the APS 2002 Excellence Award in Plasma Physics Research and Princeton University’s Kaul Prize in 2003. Most recently in 2015 the APS has named him the recipient of the James Clerk Maxwell Prize in Plasma Physics.

Dr. Yamada co-founded the Princeton Community Japanese Language School (PCJLS) in 1980 and has been a member of the Board of Directors since then. He served as Chairman of the Board during 1985-1995.

Junji Masuda （桝田淳二）has been a partner of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu NY LLP (“NOT NY”), a New York-based law firm operated by Japanese lawyers (who are admitted in Japan and New York) since September 2010, when NOT NY took over Junji Masuda’s law firm in New York operated since January 1992 under the name of Masuda & Ejiri , later Masuda International. In Japan he is a counsel of Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu (“NO&T”) (www.noandt.com), one of the largest and leading law firms in Japan. His practice area includes cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As), international joint venture and business alliances and intellectual property laws as well as international dispute resolution such as patent infringement lawsuits and other lawsuits in the U.S. and international arbitrations by ICC and AAA.

Junji Masuda received his LL.B. from The University of Tokyo (“UTokyo”) in 1966 and thereafter was trained at the Legal Training and Research Institute of the Supreme Court of Japan until 1968. He was admitted as a lawyer (Bengoshi) in Japan in 1968. He was awarded a John Burton Memorial Fellowship from Columbia Law School in 1970 and received his LL.M. from Columbia Law School in 1971.

After Columbia Law School, he worked at law firms in New York, i.e., Sullivan & Cromwell and Wender Murase & White, until he returned to Tokyo in 1973. In 1977, he founded a new law firm in Tokyo called Masuda & Ejiri (which was later called Asahi Law Offices or Asahi Koma Law Offices as a result of mergers), which later became one of the largest law firms in Japan.

He was licensed as a Legal Consultant in the State of New York in 1991 and established a law firm called Masuda & Ejiri in New York in 1992 as the first Japanese law office in the U.S. Since then he has lived in New York and has been going back and forth between New York and Tokyo frequently to primarily advise and support Japanese clients. He was admitted to the New York bar in 1995.

At the time of integration of a majority of lawyers of Asahi Law Offices with other leading law firms in Tokyo, Junji Masuda became independent under the name of Masuda International and affiliated with the NO&T in Tokyo in May 2007.

He established an alumni association of UTokyo in the New York area called NY Icho-kai in 2004 and acted as President of NY Icho-kai until he resigned in March 2011. He was also appointed as President of Friends of UTokyo, Inc.(“FUTI”), a New York not-for-profit corporation, in 2007 and managed FUTI until he resigned in March 2011. He was also appointed by the then President Hiroshi Komiyama of UTokyo as a member of the Management Council and President Selection Committee of UTokyo in 2008 and was reappointed as such by the new President Junichi Hamada of UTokyo in 2010. He was elected as the first President of the alumni association of UTokyo Orchestra in January 2011.

Junji Masuda is a member of the Daini Tokyo Bar Association, American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Columbia Law School Board of Visitors, American Foreign Law Association (Director), Advisory Board of M&A Review magazine [Mergers & Acquisitions], Nippon Club in New York, and Tokyo Club in Tokyo.

He has been covered by many legal and business magazines and newspapers over 30 years and described as a legendary lawyer in the August 2010 edition of the magazine called “The Lawyers.” He authored a book titled “International Lawyer” which was published by Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing Company in August 2010.

Hiroshi Komiyama (小宮山宏) became Chairman of the Institute of Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. and President Emeritus at the University of Tokyo in April 2009, after completing a four-year presidency at the University of Tokyo. He was appointed the 28th president of the University of Tokyo in April 2005, after having served as a vice-president and executive vice-president for a year each, respectively. Prior to that he was Dean of the School of Engineering from April 2000 till March 2002. Dr. Komiyama received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees, all in chemical engineering, from the University of Tokyo in 1967, 1969, and 1972, respectively. From 1973 to 1974, he was a post doctoral fellow at the University of California at Davis. He became a full professor in the Department of Chemical System Engineering, University of Tokyo in 1988. Dr. Komiyama specializes in chemical engineering, advanced materials engineering, and global environment engineering. His research work and papers have received awards three times from the Society of Chemical Engineers of Japan. In addition to his positions at Mitsubishi Research Institute, Inc. and the University of Tokyo, he serves as an adviser to the Japanese Government, the media, and several non-profit organizations.

Dr. Tai Hasegawa is the president of the Henry Taube Institute, a non-profit organization founded in Palo Alto in honor of his mentor (1983 Nobel laureate).  Hasegawa-san obtained his BS, MS and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the U. of Tokyo, and did his research at the Institute of Physical Science, the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, until joining the Chemistry Department of Stanford University.  He got a tenured research professorship at the Institute of Molecular Medical Sciences, former Biochemistry division of the Linus Pauling Institute (Dr. Pauling is the only person so far to win two unshared Nobel Prizes, 1954 and 1962) before establishing the Henry Taube Institute. He likes to play various instruments including the violin, the viola, and the piano, and is an act