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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

The Japanese Language Scholarship Foundation (JLSF) is very honored and privileged to have the following people on their Board of Directors

Executive Board

Los Angeles Board Members

Out of town Board Members

Honorary Members

Board of Governors

Board of Trustees

Advisory Board

Aurora Club

Executive Board Members:  Akiko Agishi, Ph.D. JLSF Aurora President and Founder
President of Creative Enterprise International, Inc.
   Hiroshi Sumiyama, Ph.D.  JLSF Aurora 1st Vice President
Chair, Aurora Speech Contest
Consultant and Chairman Emeritus, Hitachi Chemical Research Center
   Hayahiko Takase JLSF Aurora 2nd Vice President
Chair, Aurora Fall Benefit Events
President, Takase Associates
   Koki Saito JLSF Aurora Treasurer
Oshima Saito LLP
   Louis K. Ito JLSF Aurora Secretary & Legal Issues

Los Angeles Board Members  Hiroko Kataoka, Ph.D. Chair, Aurora Scholarships & Grants
Co-chair, Aurora Speech Contest
Professor, Department of Asian & Asian American Studies, California State University Long Beach
  Barry Keehn, Ph.D. Chair, Aurora Program Development
Past President, Japan America Society
  Jeff Yamazaki Parachute America
  Kaori Nara Turner Hair & Make-up Artist
  Janet LeBlanc Former Secretary to Consul General of Japan, Los Angeles
   Yuma Asakura  
  Saburo Matsumoto  Professor, Department of Mathmatics
College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita CA
   Ryu Chako Accounting Manager, Digital Manga, Inc.

 Out of town Board Members  Laurel Rasplica Rodd, Ph.D. Chair, JLSF Scholarship Recipients' Panel at annual ACTFL Meeting
Professor of Japanese, University of Colorado at Boulder
Director, Center for Asian Studies, Univ of CO
Past President, ATJ
  Tetsuo Saito JOEA, Japan Overseas Enterprise Association
   
 
 Honorary Members Junichi Ihara Honorary Chairman, JLSF Aurora Foundation
Consul General of Japan, Los Angeles
  Masashi Sada Honorary Co-Chairman, JLSF Aurora Foundation

 Board of Governors  George and Sakaye Aratani
   Kaoru and Yoshie Hayama

 Board of Trustees  Andy Takani  President, Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co.
   Yuichi Iwaki, M.D., Ph.D. Professor, USC School of Medicine

 Advisory Board  Toshio Handa President, Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Southern California
   Rinban Noriaki Ito  Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple
 Henry Koda Representative partner at Law Offices of Koda & Androlia
  Seiichi Makino Professor, Princeton University
Department of East Asian Studies
  Yoko Sugi Representative partner at Law Offices of Koda & Androlia
  Tadaharu Taguchi President, Panasonic Scholarship Co. Ltd.
  Tatsukiko Wakao Wakao & Associates, Inc.

 Aurora Club Kazuhiko Ono President, Aurora Club
 


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