NEWLY NOMINATED DIRECTORS KEIKO HORKAN Dodge & Cox Investment Managers Keiko Horkan is a Vice President and a member of the International Investment Policy Committee of Dodge & Cox Investment Managers. Ms. Horkan received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in law from Keio University in 1993 and 1995 and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000. Prior to entering business school, she worked for Booz Allen & Hamilton as a management consultant in Tokyo. Ms. Horkan joined Dodge & Cox in 2000. ALLEN M. OKAMOTO T. Okamoto & Co. Allen M. Okamoto is Owner-Broker of T. Okamoto & Co., the oldest and largest Japanese American real estate and insurance agency in the San Francisco Bay Area. Active in the community, Mr. Okamoto s current civic responsibilities include: Chairman of the Asian Real Estate Association of America 2006 and 2007 and founding director; Co-Chairman of the San Francisco-Osaka Sister City Association; Vice President of the Nihonmachi Parking Corporation; President of Sakura Matsuri Inc.; Chairman of the 100th Anniversary of Japantown Committee; Co-Chairman of the 150th Anniversary of the Kanrin Maru; Board member of the California Association of Realtors, the National Association of Realtors, the Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California, the Chinese Real Estate Association of America and a member of the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Japantown Foundation. In 1991, the San Francisco Association of Realtors named Mr. Okamoto Realtor of the Year. He received the President s Award from the California Association of Realtors and was named Director for Life in 2003. He has received a Certificate of Commendation from United States Senator Dianne Feinstein in 2000 and a Certificate of Honor from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2006. In 2007, Mr. Okamoto was the recipient of the Community Justice Award given by the San Francisco Japanese American Citizens League for outstanding community service.
DIRECTORS NOMINATED FOR REELECTION MITSUKO DUERR Professor, San Francisco State University (Retired) Dr. Duerr was the Director of U.S.-Japan Institute, College of Business at San Francisco State University, and taught international business. She set up and directed training programs for Japanese executives sent by their companies, organized and directed Managing the American Workforce programs, and organized and gave presentations in special programs for Small and Medium-Size Japanese Industry Groups, Japan Productivity Center Groups, and others. She also worked with the Japan External Trade Organization in developing and presenting programs for Americans interested in doing business in Japan. She developed the first regular university course in the U.S. on Japanese Business Practice. WILLIAM P. FULLER Senior Advisor, ChinaVest Mr. Fuller is Senior Advisor and former Vice Chairman of the ChinaVest Merchant Bank, a financial advisory firm, and served as President of The Asia Foundation for 15 years. He was elected President Emeritus in May 2004. Prior to joining The Asia Foundation, he served as Deputy Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with responsibility for U.S. foreign assistance in the Near East and Europe. He served as Director of the USAID mission in Indonesia, worked with the Ford Foundation in Bangladesh and Thailand, the World Bank in Paris, and UNICEF in Beirut, Cairo, and New York. Mr. Fuller s contribution to international development efforts has been recognized by several awards and honors such as the President s Meritorious Service Award; USAID s Distinguished Honor Prize; Korea s Hueng-in Jang Medal for Diplomatic Service; an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dominican University; the annual Citizens Award from the World Affairs Council in 2004; and Mongolia s highest civilian award, the Medal of Friendship, presented by Mongolia s President in 2004. Mr. Fuller holds B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
DAVID W. LYON Founding President Emeritus, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) Mr. Lyon is Founding President Emeritus of the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). PPIC was co-founded by William R. Hewlett, Roger W. Heyns, and Arjay Miller to carry out objective research on public policy issues facing the people of the state of California. Prior to launching PPIC in 1994, Dr. Lyon worked at the RAND Corporation for 23 years, serving as a Vice President and corporate officer from 1975 to 1994. He founded the RAND Center for U.S.-Japan Relations and served as its Co-Director from 1989 to 1993. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University in 1963; and received a Masters (1966) and Ph.D. (1972) in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley. He worked as a Regional Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia from 1969 to 1972; and as a Policy Analyst at the New York City- RAND Institute from 1972 to 1975. David is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Japan Society of Northern California and a trustee of the World Affairs Council of Northern California. He sits on the advisory board of the Asia Society of Northern California. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the San Francisco Committee on Foreign Relations. MISAKO MISTUI President & CEO, Mitsui Fine Arts Ms. Mitsui has been a fine arts dealer based in the San Francisco Bay Area for many years. After an early focus on Western Art, she currently deals in works on paper, including various types of scrolls, books, and photography, all primarily Japanese. She is also the Head of Koishikawa Mitsui, one of 11 Mitsui Families. Ms. Mitsui is actively involved with leading museums and art dealers in the US and Japan.
YUJI MURANAGA Chief Executive Director, JETRO San Francisco Education: Graduated from the University of Tokyo (Faculty of Law) in March, 1983 Service Career: July 2006 Chief Executive Director, JETRO San Francisco Dec. 2005 Director, Office for Legislative Affairs of Containers & Packaging Recycling System, Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment Bureau, METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan) July 2005 Director, Machinery Industries Promotion Office, Manufacturing Industries Bureau, METI July 2003 Director, Human Resources Department, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology July 2002 Director, Welfare Planning Office, Minister s Secretariat, METI June 1999 Consul, Consulate General of Japan in New York, Ministry of Foreign Affairs June 1998 Director, Legislative Affairs Office, Patent Office, MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry) May 1996 Director, General Coordination Division, Shikoku Bureau of International Trade and Industry, MITI June 1994 Visiting Fellow, Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University ( 1995) Apr. 1983 Joined MITI STEVEN G. TERAOKA Managing Partner, Teraoka & Partners LLP Mr. Teraoka is the Managing Partner of Teraoka & Partners LLP, a San Francisco based business law firm that assists domestic and international companies. Practicing law for the past 35 years as both a business transactional and trial attorney, Mr. Teraoka now serves as a counselor to global and domestic companies and oversees offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles and a branch in Palo Alto. He was named a Super Lawyer for Northern California in business litigation for 2008 and 2009. He is also included in LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell s Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyers.
He is a past president of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of Northern California and is currently serving as co-chairman of its Government Relations Committee. He has been on numerous California legislative delegations to Japan over the last decade and has served on an Asia trade-related Senate Subcommittee, testified before California Joint Assembly and Senate Hearings on behalf of Japanese business associations, and has been an active supporter of the California Student Exchange Program administered by the California International Relations Foundation. Mr. Teraoka was educated at U.C. Berkeley and UCLA, graduating as a UCLA Bruin in 1970 with a degree in Economics. He was captain of the UCLA Karate Team and holds a Black Belt from the Japan Karate Federation. He obtained his law degree from Loyola Law School and did post-graduate studies in international business transactions at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan in 1974. THOMAS H. WOOFTER Partner, Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP Mr. Woofter s practice focuses on the representation of foreign clients, especially Japanese, in their business activities in the United States. He has served as the firm s San Francisco office managing partner since 1997. Mr. Woofter advises both foreign and domestic clients in various business and commercial transactions, including real estate, joint ventures, direct investments, secured financing, restructuring, and merger and acquisition transactions. He also assists clients in protecting their intellectual property rights and in licensing and other technology transfer, workouts and resolution of disputes. Mr. Woofter serves on the board of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and the Japan Society of Northern California.