Honorary Chairman of the Program's Advisory Board

Mr. Minoru Makihara
Senior Corporate Advisor
Mitsubishi Corporation

Members of the Advisory Board

Mr. John Creighton
Strategic Director, Madrona Venture Group
Former Chairman & CEO, UAL Corp. and United Airlines
Former CEO of Weyerhaeuser

Mr. Richard Danziger Esq.
Lawyer, philanthropist, expert on tea ceremony

Dr. Yoichi Funabashi
Former Editor-in-Chief
Asahi Shimbun

Professor Nagayo Homma
Professor Emeritus
The University of Tokyo

Mr. Yotaro Kobayashi
Former Chairman of the Board
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Hon. Walter Mondale
U.S. Ambassador to Japan (1993-1996)
Partner, Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

Hon. Shinichi Nishimiya
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan
Former Ambassador and Consul General of Japan in New York

Mr. Scott Oki
Chairman & CEO
Oki Development, Inc.

Hon. William Ruckelshaus
Strategic Director, Madrona Venture Group
Former Secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency

Hon. John Whitehead
Former Chairman, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
Former Deputy Secretary of State
Former Chairman, Goldman Sachs and Company

Mr. Tadashi Yamamoto
President, Japan Center for International Exchange and
Special Advisor to the Program