International House of Japan
North America Advisory Board


Members (As of March 2026)

Ms. Miyoko Demay, Executive Representative – Japan, World Monuments Fund; Board Director, Nintendo Co., Ltd.; Former President, Tiffany & Co. Japan

Ms. Aiko Doden, Senior Fellow, Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Hiroyuki Fujita, Founder and CEO, Quality Electrodynamics, Chief Technology Officer, CT-MR Division, Canon Medical Systems Corporation, and Chairman, Canon Healthcare USA

Mr. Glen S. Fukushima, Vice Chairman, Securities Investor Protection Corporation

Dr. Julianne McCall, CEO, California Council on Science and Technology

Mr. Matthew Millar, Chairman and CEO, The Millar Group, Founder & Publisher, Journal of Geoeconomics (Former Mentor, UN Association of Canada)

Mr. Jonathan Berkshire Miller, Co-Founder and Principal, Pendulum Geopolitical Advisory; Senior Fellow, National Security and Defence, Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Ms. Sharon Prince, CEO and Founder, Grace Farms

Mr. Justin Rockefeller, Co-Founder and Chair, The ImPact

Mr. Jacob Schlesinger, President and CEO, United States-Japan Foundation

Dr. Sheila Smith, John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Amb. Kurt Tong, Managing Partner, The Asia Group (Former Ambassador to APEC, CG and Chief of Mission to Hong Kong and Macau, Deputy Chief of Mission at US Embassy Tokyo)

Dr. Kiyoteru Tsutsui, Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor, Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Executive Director of the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies

Major General Suzanne Vares-Lum, Director, Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (Former President, East West Center)

Dr. Joshua Walker, President, Japan Society

Ms. Amy Webb, Founder and CEO, Future Today Institute and award-winning author

Ms. Patricia Wyatt, President & CEO, Japanese American Cultural & Community Center