The Japan Center

Board Members, Executive Committee

Board of Directors

President and Chair of the Board

    Iwao Ojima, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry; Director, Institute of Chemical Biology & Drug Discovery, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Board Members
    Yoroku (Joe) Adachi, President and CEO, CANON U.S.A., Inc.
    Joan Miyazaki, M.S., President, Asian American Faculty and Staff Association; Lecturer, Undergraduate Biology, Stony Brook University
    Sachiko Murata, Ph.D. Professor, Director, Program in Japanese Studies, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    Toshio Nakamura, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    Yoko Ojima, President, Crystal Brook Music International; Music Director & Conductor, Nippon Club Women's Chorus; Soprano, Opera Singer
    Satoshi Ozaki, Ph.D., Special Assistant to the Laboratory Director for Accelerator Projects, Former Associate Laboratory Director for the RHIC Project, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Professor Emeritus, The National Laboratory of High Energy Physics, Tsukuba, Japan
    Sheldon Reaven, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Graduate Program Director, Department of Technology and Society, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    Eriko Sato, Ph.D., Director, Pre-College Japanese Language Program; Lecturer, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Academic Affairs and Programs
    Sachiko Murata Executive Director
Community Outreach
    Gerard Senese Program Director
Executive Committee
    Eriko Sato Chair (Board Member in Charge)
    Roxanne Brockner Public Relations
    Mary Diaz Academic Program Secretary
    Tatsushi Hirono Inoh Collection, Events
    Patricia Marinaccio Treasurer
    Eva Nagase Study Abroad Program (Japan), Events
    Megs Shea Public Relations
    Hiroko Uraga Community Outreach (Program Co-Director)

Advisory Board Members
    Clifford Huffman, Ph.D., Professor, English Department, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    Janis Mimura, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
    Gregory Ruf, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook

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