About Us

Name: Chicago Booth Alumni Club of Japan
Establishment: April 1995, By-Laws enacted.

Members: Chicago Booth alumni living or working in Japan

Our goals:

• To provide social and business opportunities for maintaining contact with Chicago Booth alumni in Japan

• To help recruit the next generation of Chicago Booth students

• To increase the Chicago Booth visibility in Japan

• To provide assistance to Chicago Booth

Club Leadership

Chairman 
Hideaki Fukazawa, ’83

President
Osamu Yamamoto, ’93

Vice-Presidents
Yugo Fujinami, ’14 
Takeji Shiohama, ’04 (AXP-3) 
Shotaro Akita, '05

Treasurer
Nobuhiro Kawai, ’17

Communications Director
Yuri Hamamura, ’16
Atsushi Yamazaki, '19

Board Member
Shinichi Sato, ’06 (AXP-5)
Ryota Tsutsumi, '19

Former Leadership

Atsuhito Sakai, ’82
Chairman 

Kyota Narimatsu, ’11 (AXP-10)
Toshihiko Irisumi, ’05
President

Neil Faust, ’91
Yuko Ito, ’96
Ryusuke Shimizu
Deputy President

Mark Miller, ’87
Takuya Ishikawa, ’10
Treasurer

Shinji Yamamoto, ’87
Mark Miller, ’87
Shinji Yamamoto, ’87
Marc Bookman, ’87
Isao Ohashi, ’98
Yue Ma, ’09
Directors

Hirobumi Kawakita, ’83
Kazuhiko Tahara, ’89
Michimasa Soga, ’96
Hideya Yamanaka, ’94 
Advisory Board

Special thanks to our retired board members:
Ryoko Tsutsui, ’07
Isao Ohashi, ’90
Saori Yamanaka, ’04
Shotaro Akita, ’05
Yosuke Kuroda, ’05
Sachie Hasegawa, ’06
Kazunori Ito, ’07
Masato Eguchi, ’06
Shinji Yamamoto, ’87

Club Membership

The Chicago Booth Alumni Club of Japan is the only alumni club in Japan which is authorized by Chicago Booth. The majority of the club members are Chicago Booth alumni based in Japan and Japanese alumni who reside outside of Japan.