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AMP

Kosei Suenaga (AMP-73S): We are sorry to announce that Kosei, a member of the famous Aloha Rainbows class, passed away at the age of 61.

Haruko Ozeki (AMP-87F) is the Legal Director of Amazon Japan K. K.

Kazuhiko Ito (AMP-88F) has returned to Tokyo after living in Europe for seven years. He is General Manager of the automotive component manufacturer, Valeo Japan Co., Ltd. He and his wife Miyuki have two children, Thomas and Marina.

Kazuaki and Ikuko Kurihara (both AMP-88F) continue to study English and raise their children Yosuki (15) and Keiko (12). Kazuaki is a research fellow at Fujitsu Laboratories, Ltd.

Hirohiko Asakawa (AMP-90F) has been certified as a Japan Quality Award Self-Assessor by the Japan Quality Award Council.

Toru Hanayama (AMP-90F) was recently assigned to the China Business Division of Fujitsu working closely with Makoto Teshima, former JAIMS and JJO staff.

Tetsuzo Nishimura (AMP-91F) is married to Hiroko Nishimura and is a Sales Manager for Kautex Japan Corporation.  They have one daughter, Miki, who is 17 years old.

ICMP

Akio Takata (ICMP-94F) is a General Manager for Mizuho Information & Research.  In December, 2005, after 10 years of being away, he was able to fulfill his dream of returning to Hawaii and visiting JAIMS again with his wife Etsuko, and children Kohei (14), Yohei (10), and Mio (5).

Reiko Kurihara and Kenichi Mizusawa (both ICMP 95F) visited JAIMS in the Spring of 2006.

Indunil Liyanage (ICMP-96F) graduated with a Master of Science in Management from the University of Sri Jayawardenepura, Sri Lanka on July 27, 2004.

Haruko Audia (formerly Haruko Yoshida, ICMP-97S) and her husband Pat, are the proud parents of their baby girl Christine Ayano Audia, born on April 27, 2005.

Mi Jeong (Grace) Hibbitts (formerly Mi Jeong You, ICMP-97F) and her husband, Karl Hibbitts welcomed their twins, Taegon Robert and Jaegon William on March 19, 2004.

Kazuhiro Arai (ICMP-98S) was promoted to Senior Marketing Executive for Marketing Strategy at Microsoft Co., Ltd. in Tokyo.  He and his wife Tomoko have one child, Kaito.

Yoshiyuki and Mikako (Ogawa) Katsuyama (ICMP 98F) were married in November 2005 and visited JAIMS while honeymooning in Hawaii.

Daisuke Kato and Jun (Saito) Kato (ICMP-99F) were married in September 2005 in Tokyo.  Daisuke works for Curves Japan and Jun works for Omniture, Inc.

Joy Shao (ICMP-99F) is a Research Analyst at Gartner Inc. in San Jose, California.  She is interested in getting together with any JAIMS alumni who are near the San Jose area.  Contact her by email: joyshaohui@yahoo.com.

Kanji Morishima (ICMP-00S) and his wife Sawako received a very special gift at Christmas time in 2005:  the birth of their baby daughter Risako.

Nicolas de Chatellus (ICMP-00S) says his JAIMS experience was wonderful and sends best wishes to JAIMS for mixing people and cultures from all corners of the world.  He works for a consulting company, A.T. Kearney in Paris, and specializes in the Aerospace and Defense sector.

Takashi Okazaki and Megumi Ono (both ICMP-00S) first met at JAIMS and were married in Tokyo on April 10, 2005 under the full blossoms of the cherry trees!

Wako Sakurai (ICMP-00S) has been promoted to vice president, General Manager Accounting Group and IT Group for PFU Creative Service Limited.

Michiyo Hata (ICMP-00F) visited JAIMS at the same time as Satoshi Shibata (ICMP-01S). Satoshi is the President of UD-Consulting, Inc. with offices in Tokyo and Honolulu. He and wife, Kieko, have three children: Natsuha, Suzuka, and Taiyo.

Pita Ponce-Pura (ICMP-00F) joined PepsiCo, International (Philippines Office) as the Country HR Manager in March.  Because of the career move she is putting her academic plans on hold for now, but plans to return to school in the near future to earn her Ph.D.

Frederick Blancas (ICMP-02F) has a son, Paolo (10), and daughter, Isabela (2).  He is the Strategic Planning and Marketing Communications Manager at Integrated Microelectronics Inc. (IMI).

Masayuki Tsubaki and Yoshiko Nakabayashi (both ICMP-02F) relived great memories during their return visit to JAIMS.Yoshiko works at NTT Communications Corporation in Japan. Masayuki is the Vice President, Business Planning, of Oxygenix Co., Ltd. in Tokyo.

Ivanhoe Bene (ICMP-03F) has joined the Korean Embassy in Manila handling the provision of trade and investment information to Koreans interested doing business in the Philippines.

Ken Hagiwara and Madoka Yuasa (both ICMP-03F) were married in October 2005. 
Dr. Blair Odo and 19 students (!) from the ICMP-03F class attended their wedding reception in Tokyo.

Julia Koh (ICMP-03F) and Tae Joon Lee (ICMP-04S) have earned their Project Management Professional (PMP) certifications.  TJ is a Senior Engineer with Kotrell in Seoul.  Tae Joon and Julia enjoyed a night out on the town in Korea with and Stephen and JAIMS teacher Carolyn Yoshihara.

Rona Puntawe (ICMP-03F) and her husband Yuri are happy together “down under” in Melbourne, Australia.  They were married in a medieval-themed ceremony on February 5th of this year, and classmate Yoko Sumida flew there from Tokyo to be her bridesmaid.

Viet Dung (Dzung) Nguyen (ICMP-03F) was elected to the People Commission of Hochiminh City in May 2004 and became a member of this body for the term of 2004-2009 year. This body represents the political power of the people and decides all the policies for the social and economic development of Hochiminh City.

Teerarat Siriratanasak (ICMP-03F), affectionately known as Aey, joined Barclays Capital Securities (Thailand) as finance manager of Global Finance Division. She was formerly with Ernst & Young Corporate Services as assistant manager.

Risa Sugiyama (ICMP-05F) give her parents a grand tour of the JAIMS campus at the time of her graduation..

John Wong (ICMP-05S) is a Conference Producer for Marcus Evans in Malaysia.  He is in the “Congress” team that produces events in Southeast Asia

JEMBA/CHEMBA

Bharath Ram (JEMBA 93-94) and his wife Rashmi are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter Jayni Ram who was born in February 2005 in Palo Alto California.

Neeraj Jhanji (JEMBA 94-95) is President & CEO of ImaHima Inc., an interactive entertainment company offering digital contents and services on mobile phones, PCs and TVs.  You can read an online article about him at http://www.crisscross.com/jp/executive/189.

Donna May Ong (JEMBA 94-95) and her husband Leonard are the proud parents of three boys – Jeremy (6), Justin (4) and Gabriel (14 months).

Andrew Marshall (JEMBA 95-96) and his wife Tomomi, celebrated the birth of their baby daughter Emi Ikeda-Marshall on August 18, 2005.  Andrew has also recently joined BEA Systems in Hong Kong as General Counsel – Asia Pacific.

Francis Fung (JEMBA 96-97) is the market risk manager at HSBC Markets (Asia) Limited in Hong Kong.

Fermin Taruc (JEMBA 96-97) is now a Managing Director at Gurango Software.

Jun Kabigting (JEMBA 00-01) and Tomoko Ishii (ICMP-2000S) were married on May 15, 2004 at the Westin Philippine Plaza Hotel in the Philippines.

Ying Leong (James) Ho (JEMBA 01-02) is the general manager, Hub Operations, Hong Kong for the TNT Group.

Joshua Heller (CHEMBA 02-03) is General Manager of Reva International, Ltd. in China and visited JAIMS in Spring 2005.

Mark Masutomi and Kristina Hefter (both JEMBA 03-04) visited JAIMS and were thrilled to have their photo taken with former President Dr. Glenn Miyataki.

Pearl Wee (CHEMBA 02-03) is the Asia Pacific manager at Rotary International in Chicago, USA.

Rajesh Bhambani (JEMBA 03-04) married his wife, Anila, in July 2004.

Youngsik Ha (CHEMBA 03-04) and his wife, Hajin, are the proud parents of their baby boy born on September 12, 2004.

Brandon Matsui (JEMBA 03-04) accepted a job at BlackRock Financial Management and will be working with Nomura Securities in their Risk Management Solutions division.

Joseph Ysasi (CHEMBA 03-04) is working at Amer Cable in Southern Arkansas as an International Customer Service Representative.  He is married to Rachel (Molina) Ysasi.

Hyun Soo Chung (CHEMBA 04-05) and his wife have one son who was born on September 10, 2004.

Trenton Fairbanks (CHEMBA 04-05) and his wife, Ivy, now have two children, Owen and Anjieli.

JMP

Marsela Ibrahim (JMP 87-88) is running a tourism company in Malaysia and would like to extend her services to JAIMS alumni who are planning a visit to her beautiful country. She can be reached at marsela@trescogroup.com.

Sang Yong Rhee (JMP 90-91) sold his mobile company, moved to L.A. and joined an investment bank, Clemensen Capital Company. He and his wife have a son, Kenneth, who was born on November 18, 2005.