Bulletin
(From Global Horizons, Winter 1999)

What's New
Visitors at JAIMS
Weddings and Other Blessings

What's new

Daniel Nahoopii (JEM3) recently joined SMS Research and Marketing Services, a Honolulu firm, as senior project director and analyst for the visitor industry team ... Rex Bullinger (JMP15) is with the @Home Network as HFC engineering manager—he's working to make cable modem access widely available ... Now that the Nagano Olympic Games are over, Hart Larrabee (JEM5) has moved to Tokyo and is with the newly formed international relations department of the Japanese Olympic Committee, where he'll be a liaison with the rest of the Olympic "family" ... Xavier Li (ICMP98S) is in the MBA program at the University of Victoria ... James Kohara (JMP15) is president of MarketLink, Inc. based in Honolulu ... Indunil Liyanage (ICMP96F) is now product manager with Brown & Company Ltd. in Sri Lanka—and was recently awarded the Individual Royal Charter by the Chartered Institute of Marketing U.K. ... Jack Chung (ICMP93S) has been transferred to the Hakata, Japan office of the Far East Trade Service Center ... Terumi Mizuno (ICMP96S) is involved in a renewable energy development project for Myanmar and was there in August as a mission member of the Japanese government ... Hirohiko Asakawa (AMP38) has been appointed manager of the Japan International Division of Butler Manufacturing Company in Kansas City, Missouri ... Yukiko Yamamoto (AMP93F) of Fujitsu is now with the new business development project of the Financial System Group in Tokyo ... Concert pianist Yuko Hisamoto (ICMP97F) has written a book, Exploring Mozart's Clavia Music, published by Ongakunotomo-sha ... Temboon Meemeskul (JEM6) is assistant vice president of the system design and planning department of United Information Highway Co. Ltd. in Bangkok, a subsidiary of the telecommunications company UCOM Group. He's also been attempting to update JAIMS Thai alumni! ... Jack Benjamin (JMP12) is an attorney with Taggart, Morton, Ogden, Staub, Rougelot, Brocato & O'Brien in New Orleans—his focus is admiralty and maritime defense litigation and he remains active in the Louisiana/Japan Association ... Fredrik Tjernstrom (JMP96) is an analyst in New York City with Horizon Asset Management, a Wall Street firm that bought out his financial analysis company—he reports that having only one job and no school seems like a vacation! ... Chow Hun Chan (JEM1) is with the corporate advisory department of Intria Berhad in Selangor, Malaysia ... After 12 years in Japan, Mike Beirne (JMP16) and his family have moved to San Jose, where he is manager of Network P.R. for Fujitsu America ... Despite a killer current and big waves, Bill Hall (JMP17) completed the 2.4 mile Honolulu Roughwater Swim at Waikiki in September. Out of the water, Bill's with the Kamakura Corporation in Honolulu ... Kikuko Harada (ICMP96F), with the consulting division of Kyoto Research Park, has been organizing the fledgling Kansai JAIMS Bond together with Tomomi Sakanoue (ICMP95S) ... Barry Mellinger (JMP8) is senior marketing manager with NEC Electronics in Santa Clara, California—he and his wife celebrated their 29th wedding anniversary last year! ... Toshio Yamada (AMP14) is director of room management at the Dai-ichi Hotel, Tokyo ... Chris Lamatsch (JEM5) is senior manager of human resources at Price Waterhouse Coopers in Tokyo ... Ryo Miyagi (AMP27) is director of international marketing for the Executive Resource Group in St. Cloud, Minnesota ... Marc Keats (JMP9) returned to Canada after living in Japan for nine years and is establishing a branch office for Senex Japan Inc. ... Tatsuo Terasawa (AMP1) works for Shimizu Construction Co. Ltd. and recently transferred from Los Angeles to Tokyo ... Rick Chan (JEM6) returned to Hong Kong after working in Tokyo and notes that Hong Kong has changed considerably over the past few years.

Visitors at JAIMS

Summer visitors included Yoshiko Kondo (ICMP96F), now working at the Yokohama Grand Intercontinental Hotel in the facility management department. She noted that her internship at the Sheraton Maui helped her a great deal with her new job! ... Yoshihiro Nishi (AMP93S) took time to drop by JAIMS and say hello ... Gregory and Junko (Kaneda) Ratte (JMP12 and AMP26) from New York vacationed in Hawaii with their four children—he's a partner with the NYC investment counsel firm of Brundage, Story and Rose ... Akiko Yamaguchi (ICMP97S) managed to squeak in some vacation time before she began her new job at Microsoft K.K. in July ... Junichiro Suita (AMP35), on holiday from SAP Japan, dropped by with his wife, Hitomi, and two children ... Ki-Youl Suh (AMP38) visited in September after a trip to Luxembourg—he was recently promoted to deputy general manager of the international department of Kookmin Bank ... Kiyofumi Okamoto (ICMP96F), an architect with the Takenaka Corporation, visited with his wife, Hiroko, and two sons and brought pictures of the elegant condominiums that he designed next to Lake Biwa ... Toshio Fukukita (AMP19), with Kanegafuchi Chemical Co., visited in September ... Kazuyo Yamada (ICMP96F) took advantage of her recent free time by playing tourist in Hawaii in November.

Weddings and other blessings

Daisuke Asai (AMP92F) and Yoshiko Tanaka were married in a July ceremony at historic Kawaiahao Church in Honolulu ... Eriko Kelly Yamanokuchi (ICMP97F) married Makoto Kawanaka at the Unity Church of Hawaii in October and they are now living in Los Angeles ... The JEM7 class was happy to celebrate the October marriage of Herminia Cruz and David Lu in the Philippines, with classmates Fermin Taruc, Wee Seng Chan, Judy See Kiat Gan, and Kar Shuen Wendy Chan as wedding sponsors. Hermie and David moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where David is an internal auditor for Advanced Micro Devices ... Nobuhiro Takazawa (ICMP94F) and his wife Kana had a baby boy, Shogo, in May ... Tuomas Koljonen (JMP17) and his wife Maria were blessed with the birth of their baby girl, Katarina Isabella, in October ... JEM9 student Young-Kyung Kim and his wife Yun-Hee Cho welcomed the birth of their daughter, Ji-Hae (her Hawaiian nickname is Lani), in November.

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