Bulletin
(From Global Horizons, Summer 1998)

What's New
JEMBA-6 Update
Visitors to JAIMS
Spring Travel in Asia
Wedding Bells

What's new

Joong-hwa Lee (JEM-2) and Haruyo Mochizuki (AMP-92S) are the happy parents of son Sadatoshi, born January in Korea ... Charles Lin (JEM-5), with Uni-Charm, has transferred from Shinagawa to Thailand ... Susan Izawa (JMP-10) is the Tokyo executive international representative of Big Planet, a U.S.-based internet-working company ... Gordon Okawa (JMP-92) has joined the Sacramento, California law firm of Wagner Kirkman & Blaine as an associate in the tax and transactional department ... Shuichi Matsumura (AMP-11) is with Fujitsu Personal Systems, Inc. in Santa Clara, California ... Also in Santa Clara is Megumi Sorita (AMP-93F), who has joined the S3 Corp. ... Hiroko Kobayashi (AMP-33) manages the Japan office of Japan Language Forum (JLF), which specializes in translating English and Japanese materials, copy-writing, and creating educational materials. JLF also runs Hale Ipo, a bed and breakfast in Kona on the Big Island ... J. X. Zhao (AMP-28), formerly with Capital Cities/ABC Inc., is with ILX Systems/Thomson Corp. in New York City ... Nobuto Sugiura (ICMP-95F), with the Hiroshima city government, will be working with UNESCO for the next two years--and using all those great language skills learned at JAIMS! ... Bernie Kloenne (JMP-10), president/owner of Inland Envelope Company in southern California, welcomes news from JAIMS classmates ... Brian Hawkins (JMP-15) is with NASA as an aerospace education specialist in Moffett Field, California ... Yuichiro Nakamura (AMP-22/former JAIMS staff) is general manager for administration at Fujitsu Hong Kong Ltd.

JEMBA-6 update

Mian Alentajan has done an admirable job of gathering news of her fellow JEMBA-6 classmates. Mian, in corporate planning at San Miguel Corporation, was married May 1 to Francis Lacson--best wishes to the bride and groom! ... Andrew Marshall, recently promoted to senior associate at the law firm Blake Dawson Waldron, passed the New York bar exam this year. He's back in Sydney, Australia after stints in Japan and Shanghai ... Patrick Hee has joined Frost & Sullivan in San Francisco, where both he and John McCormick IV are IT industry analysts ... Jonathan Lum joined Federal Express in Tokyo as a sales analyst ... Peggy Chiang and Stephen Sharp were married in Taipei on Easter Sunday and have moved to Silicon Valley. Steve is at NASAM, Inc., where he is marketing aerospace and defense products to Japan. Peggy is a client support specialist at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. Some quick updates on the whereabouts of a few other JEM-6s: John Morihara, Nichibei Co., Ltd. in Tokyo ... Temboon Meemeskul, business development manager, M. Group Public Company Ltd., Bangkok ... Paul Robertson, analyst, the Gallup Organization, Tokyo ... Hein Thuan Loy, senior consultant, Integrated Decision Systems Consultancy, Singapore ... Michelle Rosenswig, research executive, JMRB Research International, Tokyo ... Muhammad Thamrin, architect/director, Rekamatra Architecture, Bandung, Indonesia ... Seung Jae Shin, research, Korea Telecom, Seoul. All other JEM-6s--send us an update at info@jaims.org!

Visitors to JAIMS

Masashi Soma (AMP-9) dropped by in January. He's in Kyoto and is adviser to the New Drug Development Research Center ... Taka Yasuda (AMP-38), with Hoshino Resort in Nagano, made his first visit to JAIMS since graduating seven years ago and vowed "I shall return" ... Tomoko Hattori (ICMP-95S), systems analyst with Fujitsu, vacationed on Oahu for a week in April ... Michele Boyle Okabe (JEM-3) visited in April with her son, Christopher Tsubasa, born last September. Michele is a business consultant with Japanese Localization Services in Piedmont, California ... Neeraj Jhanji (JEM-5), with Andersen Consulting in Tokyo, visited in May.

Spring travel in Asia

JAIMS Vice President Blair Odo met with alumni in Korea, the Philippines and Singapore on a recent trip. In Korea: Jaekwon Lim (JEM-3), Seoul correspondent for the Asia Times ... Wonyoung Choi (JEM-7), planning and management, MiraeNet Co., Ltd. In the Philippines: Feliza Lim Blanch (JEM-3), manager, global finance, Citibank N.A. ... Mian Alentajan Lacson (JEM-6) ... Carlos Mercado (JEM-3), chief trader, foreign exchange management, PCI Bank ... Herminia Cruz (JEM-7) senior research manager, Trends-Market Behaviour ...Carlos Berba (JMP-17), assistant vice president, financial planning and analysis, San Miguel Corporation ... Fermin Taruc (JEM-7), vice president, Scala Business Solutions. In Singapore: Boon Gee Lee (JEM-2) senior project manager, Singapore Housing and Development Board ... Wee Seng Chan (JEM-7) ... Benjamin Tan Lin Boon (JMP-13), lecturer, School of Accountancy, Nanyang Technological University ... Suay Peng Wong (JEM-3), group manager, accounting/business finance group, Nanyang Polytechnic ... Vincent Wei Chi Shia (JEM-5) executive human resource officer, Singapore Housing and Development Board ... Vincent Ong (JMP-17), managing director, Fujitsu Devices Singapore Pte. ... Hein Thuan Loy (JEM-6). In Vietnam, Roxanne Kam, JAIMS academic services manager, visited with Nga Tuyet Doan (ICMP-95F), deputy director, International Cooperation, Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications, and with Hiroshi Tsumura (AMP-92F), second secretary, Embassy of Japan in Vietnam. Hiroshi returned to Hiroshima City Government in May.

Wedding bells

Yasumoto Suzuki (AMP-28) and Naomi Emoto celebrated a November wedding and honeymoon in India ... Peta Nicholson (JEM-7) married Brennan Fielding in May in Brisbane and they are now living in Hawaii ... Yoichi and Yuka Kasahara (AMP-91S) married on May 10 and spent their honeymoon in Hawaii. Yoichi is assistant manager in the opto-electronics division at Nikon Corporation in Tokyo ... Tamara Witte and Andrew Ujiie (JEM-4) celebrated a Maui wedding in March ... Yoko Tokunaga Kitazato (ICMP-95S) and her husband, Mitsuhiro, were married in May at the Tokyo American Club and spent their honeymoon in Hawaii. Yoko is with Fujitsu ... Even though the ICMP classes of Tsutomu (Ben) Takatori (96S) and Asako Kikui (96F) overlapped a short time, they still managed to find enough time in the computer lab to meet one another! In May they were married in Honolulu. Satoru Miyoshi (ICMP-96S) gave the toast and Hiroshi Hamanaka (also 96S) enjoyed the festivities along with David Lu, Dede Prabowo and Wendy Chan (JEM-7s). Ben is in the overseas business planning and broadcasting department at Sony.

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