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January 2001 IUJ Alumni Newsletter --

国際大学 International University of Japan

IUJ Alumni NewsNewsletter for the 1521 Strong World-wide Network of IUJ Alumni 1985-2000

Inside this Issue . . .MBA Program Update - Dean Selection pg. 2Alumni Assoc. Annual Meeting date pg. 3Global Workplace Info pg. 4Chapter News and MIF Gathering pg. 5Alumni Spotlights pg. 6ClassNotes pg. 7-11Special Thanks! pg. 12Can you Donate THINGS? pg. 13Help a Professor’s Class pg. 13“State of the Alumni Network” pg. 14

国際大学同窓生ニュースレター January 2001

e-Business Management degree @ IUJ2Rap id Deve lopment o f

e-Bus iness Leaders

It is the new Millennium! New times and circumstancescall for new programs and offerings. And IUJ is respond-ing to the market with the introduction of a new programunder the GSIM - a one-year e-business management pro-gram: The only one of itskind in Japan!

The MBA Program aims atdeveloping global leaderswell-prepared for the future.This program is built upon anoriginal curriculum which fo-cuses on the comparativeanalysis of global issues froma Japan-Asia perspective,while also adhering to thehigh standards set for a glo-bal MBA education. Throughthis unique approach, theGSIM has established itselfas a leading graduate busi-ness school in Japan andAsia.

But the world has experi-enced rapid changes promp-ted by globalization and IT in-novations, and the qualifications to be a global business leaderhave been greatly diversified. Consequently, it has becomeincreasingly difficult to respond to the variety of human re-source needs exclusively through the standard MBA edu-cation. In particular, in the midst of the explosive growth ofthe Internet, the accelerated development of IT leaders whocan cope with novel business models and IT innovations isthe most urgent and important challenge for many corpora-tions. In order to help them meet this challenge, the GSIMwill offer a new one-year E-Business Management Pro-gram (MeM) starting in Fall 2001.

What is an

e-Business Leader?1 Those who posses the fundamental knowl-edge of Internet software and hardware, andrelated development trends, so as to assessthe potential and limitations of new businessmodels.

2 Those who posses the skills to create newbusiness models and evaluate the economicsof such models and IT for e-business.

3 Those who posses the management capa-bilities to lead entire e-business projects byfacilitating collaboration between businessanalysts, legal experts and IT professionals.

E-ビジネスリーダーの速成

１年制国際大学E-ビジネス経営学プログラム

新世紀の幕開けにふさわしい新しいプログラムが国際大学に誕生します！国際経営学研究科では、2001 年秋より、１年制の修士課程として国内唯一

のE-ビジネス経営学プログラム(MeM)を新設することになりました！

MBAプログラムは設立以来、「時代を先駆けるグローバル・リーダーの育成」を掲げ、世界のM B A 教育に共通する知識体系とその統合的な活用能力の育成を行う一方、日本とアジアに視座を据えた国際的な比較分析を積極的にカリキュラムに取り入れ、日本を代表するM B A プログラムとして世界的に見てもユニークな教育を行ってきました。

昨今の時代の変化に伴い、グローバル・リーダーに求められる資質も多様化しており、特に、インターネットの爆発的な成長に伴い革新的なビジネ

ス・モデルが既存の産業分野の壁を越えて次々と現れる中、IT 革命に対応できる人材のスピーディな育成は、日本の国際競争力の維持・発展にとって、最も緊急且つ重要な課題となっています。こうした

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While the MBA program strives todevelop business leaders who can dealwith global business issues from a Japan-Asia perspective, the new programspecifically focuses on producing e-business leaders in the shorter period ofone year. By clearly identifying the set ofqualifications required to be an e-businessleader the new program will help individu-als and corporations acquire the scarcetalents to understand and manage e-business through a comprehensive approach based onintegrated analyses of business, legal, and IT issues.

E-business leaders should be able to identify oppor-tunities offered by the Internet, visualize new busi-ness models to capture those opportunities, assessthe models, and implement them efficiently from abusiness perspective. They may not be able to functionas IT professionals who develop and maintain the e-business IT infrastructure. However, they should becapable of understanding the basic trends in the develop-ment of IT technologies surrounding the Internet, andcapture the potential and understand the limitations froman IT perspective.

In summary, e-business leaders manage entire e-busi-ness projects by facilitating collaboration with strongleadership. The use of e-business does not guaranteeautomatic success. If an e-business leader can identifythe conditions necessary to win in the e-business envi-ronment, appropriately cope with the legal issues sur-rounding business model patents, and develop a competi-tive edge based on the unique features of the e-businessIT infrastructure, competitiveness in e-business follows.

IUJ’s innovative new curriculum and project ideas willaim at creating the new leader for a new Millennium.

While the MBA program strivesto develop business leaderswho can deal with globalbusiness issues from a Japan-Asia perspective, the newprogram specifically focuseson producing e-businessleaders in a shorter period

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社会的要請に応えるため、E-ビジネス経営学プログラム１年制コースを開始することになりました。

１年制プログラムの目的は、E-ビジネスにおけるビジネス・リーダーを独自のカリキュラムにより1年間で育成し、深刻な人材難を抱える企業のニーズにスピードを以って応えるこ

とにあります。MBA プログラムがより広い識見を持ったグローバル・ビジネス・リーダーの育成を目指しているのに対し、1年制プログラムは、E-ビジネスに特化したリーダーをより短期間で育成する点に特色があります。E-ビジネスは、ITプロフェッショナルだけでなく、ビジネスリーダー－ビジネスの観点から企画・分析・立案を担当する能力を持ち、かつE-ビジネスの可能性と限界を情報システムの側面からも把握できる能力を持つ人材－を必要としています。情報システムを開発・管理・運営するIT プロフェッショナルとしての専門能力というより、インターネットを中心としたハード・ソフト情報基盤の特質を良く理解し、IT の基本動向に精通し、ビジネス分析に情報システムの観点を正確に取り込む能力、それを本質的に統合する方向でリーダーシップを発揮できる能力こそが重要だと考えています。ビジネス・モデル特許を中心とする法務面での対応も忘れず、構想を実現する情報基盤の特質をE-ビジネスの競争力に結び付けて判断できる統合的なリーダーシップを発揮できる人材を輩出することを国際大学は目指しています。

MBA SchoolUpdate

W h o W i l l B e t h e N e x t I MDean?Glenn Mayhew, Associate Dean, GSIM

As many of you have heard, Prof. Ushio Sumita decidednot to extend his contract as GSIM dean, stepping downwhen his contract as dean ended on 30 June 2000. Weare now in the process of searching for a new dean, whichI explain below. In the meantime, two GSIM faculty havestepped forward to shoulder the burden until a new deanis in place. Prof. Takato Hiraki took on the duties of thedean’s office from 1 July 2000 to 11 December 2000.

Prof. Jay Rajasekera took over on 12 December 2000and will serve until 31 March 2002, or until a new deanis found.

The search for the new dean is headed by a committeeof IM faculty: Professors Mayhew, Rajasekera,Wakayama and Waters. Through advertising and con-tacts with universities and businesses, many applicationshave arrived. One candidate has been interviewed, andthe committee will meet in January to make recommen-dations on other possible interviews. I am happy to beable to say that we have a number of very good candi-dates.

e-Business @IUJ . . . continued



A Long -Term Cha l lengeJim Biolos (IM90)

It took more than 20 years for McDonalds to turn a niceprofit in Japan. The average worker can now expect towork for at least three different companies in twentyyears. Talk to a colleague in global economic develop-ment and they’ll tell you 20 years is nothing. But talk toan entrepreneur building a dot.com and they’ll tell youlong-term is 11 months from now.

Twenty years is a long time…but it doesn’t create alegacy. So, the questions we all need to be asking –continuously – is what will it take for the organizationswe lead to be compelling for well over twenty years?And, what will it take for each of us, as individuals, tothrive twenty years from now…and beyond?

Innovation: the only leadership taskThe new global economy – both in the physical worldand on the Web – has taught us one thing about longev-ity: only the innovators survive. It is something politicalparties, country economies, and legacy businesses havefound out (the hard way) over the past several years.

Continuous innovation is tough. Yet, there is evidencethat it is happening at IUJ – first adding an MBA pro-gram after ten short years of life and, now, creating ane-business program. If IUJ is to make its mark on theworld, this innovation engine will need to continue – in away that serves the needs of IUJ’s customers, its stake-holder institutions, and the economies it serves.

But how will IUJ remain innovative? How will yourorganization remain vital? And, if our association withIUJ, as alumni adds value to our careers, what do eachof us need to do to help IUJ – and our employer organi-zations – leave their mark on this world?

Not one, but three careersAs we move into the new millennium, each of us needsto plan for three, 20-year careers. That means we canexpect to have to reinvent ourselves every couple ofdecades. And even within a single 20-year career, wemay change employers, locations, and functions withgreater frequency.

This requires that we ask ourselves questions that onlyan elite few in our societies once asked. Who am I?What do I do? How do I do it? Why do I do it? Today,if you’re not trying to answer these questions, you areputting your future at risk. But how many of us arethinking about our contribution to the next generation…oreven the generation after that? And what resourcesare available to support our search for answers androadmaps? This is becoming a key challenge for us asindividuals – and for global corporations, governments,and academic institutions like IUJ.

As we launch this new millennium, how will we changethe world for those in 3000? In 2100? In twenty years?

Alumni Views

Mark yourCalendar

March 23

i s the IUJ A lumniAssoc iat ion Annua l Meet ingin Tokyo!

See IUJ Calendar of Events for details

and watch for a special mailing.*

*Japan residents only. Those overseas, please see online.

GSIM is also hiring many new faculty members this year.By the end of the year we hope to have new professors inaccounting, IT, law, management and marketing. Again,we have received a number of excellent applications andwe look forward to the continued growth of the IM school.

Part of the push for new faculty is to help staff the newone-year Master of E-Business Management (MeM) pro-gram that will begin in Fall 2001. We are very excited aboutthe program, as it will help to clearly identify IUJ as a uni-versity looking toward the future of business. The degree

will be unlike any other offered in Japan. Our program willtrain those who will run e-businesses. Thus, rather thanfocusing exclusively on the IT aspects of e-business, wewill emphasize the managerial aspects. Of course, the MeMprogram will also offer training in IT, but our emphasis willbe on teaching how the technology impacts businesses interms of strategic and tactical opportunities and limitations.Student applications for the new program have alreadystarted to arrive.

GSIM is also continuing its increased student recruiting ef-fort, an effort in which many of you have been involved.Thank you for your participation. In large part because ofyour help, we currently have on campus the largest IM classever, and the class continues your tradition of excellent cre-dentials. With your continued effort (and with cooperationfrom the Ministry of Education), we hope to make the MBAprogram even larger in the next few years. Keep an eye onIUJ - you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!“ ”3

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GLOCOM PlatformV i r t u a l D i s c u s s i o n i n E n g l i s h a m o n g J a p a n ’ s o p i n i o n l e a d e r s

New York Fo rum: “Japanese Cu l tu re and Bus inessGlobal izat ion in the IT Revolut ion” J a p a n S o c i e t y , N e w Y o r k o n O c t . 2

Tadashi Kobayashi, IUJ and GLOCOM and Takahiro Miyao, Managing Committee Chairman, GLOCOM Platform

Global Workplace is a senior appointments service foralumni from an exclusive grouping of leading interna-tional Master’s programs around the world. IUJ is aproud member, meaning our alumni (YOU) may makeuse of it to find your next job in Japan or throughout theworld. You customize the service to meet your needsby completing a profile online, and choosing to receivepotential job matches via automatic e-mail services. Youmay also search the job openings by category, apply onlinedirectly to the company and more. Further, you join aglobal network of Master’s elites and receive invitationsto various networking parties: In 2000, such events wereheld in Barcelona and Tokyo.

As of November, over 7,000 MBA or MA holders haveaccessed the site, 50 of them from IUJ! Others includeTuck, Sloan, LBS and CUHK, etc. alums. Over 4,000people, including 35 from IUJ have completed onlineprofiles. Over 1,000 companies are planning to makeuse of this serivce, and as of November over 200 jobswere being advertised. To earlier openings, 34 IUJgraduates applied and so far one has secured a newemployment opportunity.

Corporate members sign up under a university’s umbrella.So if your company is looking to hire talent,* and haveaccess to this exclusive group, visit the site and sign upas an IUJ company!

*a 15% finders fee is payable to Global Workplacehttp://www.iuj.global-workplace.com

http://www.glocom.org/

IUJ’s GLOCOM successfully held a live seminar in NewYork City last October. It is part of the GLOCOM Plat-form activity and was fully co-sponsored by the JapanSociety and the Japan Foundation. A summary of theforum discussion is posted along with an edited video(RealVideo) on our website.

Panelists include Chairman Y. Kobayashi of Fuji Xerox,Prof. S. Kumon of GLOCOM, IUJ, Pres. K. Momii ofMitsui & Co., USA, Mr. J. Bussey of the Wall StreetJournal and Dr. A. Westin of the Center for Social andLegal Research. The overall forum session was coordi-nated by GLOCOM Prof. T. Miyao.

More interest in the event was generated than we ini-tially anticipated. In fact, there were more requests forinvitation than the seminar room could accommodate (amaximum of 100). Among those who attended were:Ambassador and Consul General T. Kawamura, Colum-bia University Prof. H. T. Patrick, Isen.com PresidentD.S. Isenberg, and other opinion leaders as well as quitea few journalists from Japan and the US. Eleven alumniparticipated as well.

The forum itself went well with IUJ Vice Chairman (andFuji Xerox Chairman) Kobayashi’s keynote speech onthe implications of globalization and the IT revolution onJapanese corporate culture, emphasizing the need formore open and explicit “trust,” and Mr. Momii and Mr.Bussey commented on Mr. Kobayashi’s speech fromtheir respective standpoints. Then, Dr. Kumon and Dr.Westin presented their views on possible contradictionsand conflicts among empowered individuals and organi-zations in the IT era, and made proposals as to how toreestablish stable and productive relations based on newtypes of trust and rules among those individuals and or-ganizations in Japan.

After the forum the alumni got together with ChairmanKobayashi, Dr. Kumon and several other IUJ andGLOCOM members for parties at a nearby restaurant.Nine alumni attended the afternoon tea party and 13 joinedthe dinner party.

This New York activity has turned out to be a great suc-cess not only for its public relations effect on ourGLOCOM Platform, but also for a closer relationshipamong IUJ alumni at least in the NY area.

I n Other GLOCOM NEWS . . .GLOCOM Platform has just been linked to the Reuter Japan website.

A new essay by Fuji Xerox Chairman Kobayashi (also IUJ Vice Chairman), titled “Japan’s Individualism in Global-ization Trends,” is now available in the GLOCOM Platform.

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Networks & Chapters

A N igh t t o Remember :MIF Scho la rs GatherCaecilia Bea Dwiwati (IR97)

When I got an e-mail invitation from MIF for an alumnidinner, I was so excited. MIF dinners always mean goodfood and good conversation. Knowing that I would see somany old faces again and of course some new ones broughtback those Urasa memories. Of the 22 MIF alumni whocurrently work in Japan, 20 came. Together with Washida-san, Yokoseki-san and two current MIF scholars, Billy andJindal, there were 25 of us.

Yokoseki-san, the new deputy secretary general of MIFopened the dinner by welcoming everyone. There has beena change in the MIF management personnel in Osaka. Thosefriendly faces of Yamashita, Nakanishi, Nagano and Tanaka-san were replaced by new, bright and equally friendly facesof Tanii, Washida, Yokoseki and Taniguchi-san.

There are intentions of setting up MIF alumni chapteracross the world, especially in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia/Singapore and the Philippines – a good network with 62 alumniall over the world. And we, in Japan chapter, elected VinodMandre as our first president. The president of these chap-ters will help the MIF secretariat set up meeting venues andprograms.

Indones ia Chapter Formal i zesDiah Astuti (IR97)

Gathering last August in Jakarta were 33 alumni: the "eldest" Koichi Tsuchiya (IR85) to the "youngest" Usdek-san(IR00). The meeting was warm and friendly. There are about 115 Indonesian IUJ alumni and 2 Non-Indonesians postedin Indonesia. They are Tsuchiya-san (IR85/Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank), and Takehiko Yoshioka (IM97/Komatsu, Ltd.).Of the 115 Indonesian IUJ alumni, about 10 people are working/studyingabroad and some live outside of Jakarta (Yogyakarta, Bandung, Surabaya,etc). Everyone made self-introduction and shared his/her sweet memoriesof IUJ and Japan.

Then, the event organizer, Hanafi Sofyan Guciano (IR89) delivered hisspeech about the purpose of the meeting. Simply put, "We need to build goodnetworking among the IUJers here in Indonesia." We formally launched "The IUJ Alumni Jakarta Chapter." At themeeting, Hanafi-san was elected the first Chairman, Dani Ramdhani (IM96) as the treasurer and Diah Astuti (IR97) asthe secretary. Several chapter activities were propposed, such as a one-day conference on "REVITALIZATION OFJAPAN'S ECONOMY: Implications for Indonesia." The group listed possible speakers and sponsors. But no date yet.

Campus looks forward to helping you all, and in hearing how things with our first formalized Chapter proceeds.Good luck!

London Alumni at the OperaWith an open-air Opera and great Thai food, 4 “old-timers” met up in London to welcome KayokoTatsumi (1987) to the area and begin a more activeAlumni Chapter. With Yuko Sakai (1986) takingthe lead, the small but happy group posed for a quickphoto before diving for the last bit of cucumber andthe curtains rose of the Opera. Aikra Aoki (1987)chose the venue and Minoru Asai (1987) broughtdesigner sandwiches. Says Yuko “As four peoplecould manage to gather, it must be possible to do itwith more people. It has got to be...”

PHOTO London Alumni

PHOTO Indonesian Alumni

“We need to build good

networking among the IUJers”

Also several volunteered to be the contact person for gath-ering ClassNotes. They are Sukhdev Bedi (1994), Yang Tao(1995), Pilar Baltazar (1996), Bea Dwiwati (1997), XieBingwu (1998), Vinod Mandre (1999), and TawinChanchaichujit (2000). Remember to update your news toyour year representative!

Web Site DevelopmentMIF has launched a web site for all of MIF-IUJ alumni

and scholar. Check it out at www.mif-iuj.org and you canhave your personal web pages inside. Yokoseki-santogether with Desmond (1997), Toby (2001) and I haveworked to form this homepage. Vis Prabhakaran andTawin Chanchaichujit (2000) volunteered to help.

We introduced ourselves and all the news came out. Fromworking experience - changing jobs or positions - and per-sonal news, like marriages and babies! Everyone seems tohave a great life after IUJ. Many thanks to MIF.

After dinner, and lots of good conversation over dessert,the time came to say sayonara - Thank you MIF!

PHOTO Indonesian Alumni

IUJ’s first formalized chapter in Jakarta gather for a group photo in August.



Alumni SpotlightsLook ing to make a ne twork o fIUJers i n AcademeFranco Teleg IR95

“I was appointed faculty, at the Faculty of ManagementSciences, University of the Philippines, Open University,while still serving as National Adviser, UNESCO-NYFP.We have developed most recently a program Certificatefor Barangay Administration (Community empowermentmodules). I wish to get in touch with the alumni in theacademe, if possible all of us contributing to the frontiers ofknowledge to exchange ideas, papers and discussions”

If interested in joining him in active discussions on a widerange of topics, and in forming a Scholars Group of IUJerscontact Franco [email protected]. The Alumni OnlineDiscussion Board would be a great place to exchange ideas.Access this through the Online Directory pageswww.iuj.ac.jp/alumni/

Coordinat ingAs ian Bus iness

Relat ionsVinita (Mehra) Sethi 1989

“Currently, I am Deputy Secretaryat the Federation of Indian Cham-bers of Commerce and Industry in-charge of the Asia desk (1990 todate). In Japan, we work closelywith Japan Chamber of Commerceand Industry and also interact with

Keidanren and MITI. Earlier I also rep-resented India’s private sector on such bodies as ESCAP,Indian Ocean Rim Association, G-15, SAARC etc. Myjob profile includes facilitating strategic alliances and busi-ness partnerships between India and countries of Asia.I also conduct specific studies on Asian economies andtheir business environment whereby we can identify con-straints as well as opportunities for enhancing bilateraltrade and investments. I travel quite a bit in Asia withspecial focus on Japan, China, Korea and ASEAN coun-tries. To facilitate business partnering, I work closelywith the Government departments and policy makers inIndia and abroad.”

T h e I U J N e t w o r k :What wi l l i t br ing next?Korkut Bilgin IR96

One Friday while I was working (in the Jusco Store inChiba Prefecture) a lady came and asked me,“Are you Korkut?” “Wooooaaw!” I said “Yes”“Are you Korkut Bilgin?”“Wooooooooaaaaaw!” I said once more “Yes”“Are you from Kokusai Daigaku”“Wwwwwooowoowowowowowow! Yes”

I was thinking how famous I was and asked who shewas. Can you imagine, she was the member of a familyin Niigata where I had a weekend home-stay in 1995(home stays were arranged by IUJ to a group of IUJstudents with a group of families) some members of myhome stay family moved to Chiba and are living veryclose to me. So, that night I was saying “that’s IUJ, whoknows what it brings.”

At night I came to home and had an E-mail note fromcampus. I didn’t want to respond immediately and onlysend a message “Thank you Gretchen, I received yourmail:” I wanted to write more. I next checked my mailbox and there awaiting me was the IUJ Alumni News-letter. Since IUJ seems to be at my door step today,here is my update:

I am still working for Jusco. My current position is oneof the most amazing and interesting positions that an IUJgraduate can have. I am selling underwear in a store.The most frequently asked question of the Millennium is“Am I selling also women’s underwear?”

The answer is Yes!

Before that I was in aMIS&Logistics Project forone and a half years, and be-fore that one and a half yearin the food division.

The most important thing for me is that I am able to con-tinue studying Karate in Tokyo. I started from the begin-nings while at IUJ. Maybe you know, my love of Japanesemartial arts brought me to Japan.

You probably remember the Karate teacher Koyonagi-sensei at IUJ: He has more than twenty years of experi-ence and belongs to one of the most respected and one ofthe oldest Karate groups in Japan. Right now, I am practic-ing with his teacher, who is a great Karate master and agreat person. Just to practice with them, I travel three tofour hours from Chiba to Tokyo. And once a year we havethe Karate camp with the son of a founder of Shito-ryuKarate, a master who is over eighty years old. If you opena Karate history book, you can see his picture when he wasa child. I earned my Black Belt in Fall `98.

With an IUJ vision, I am trying to contribute to internationalrelations (of course not in Roppongi). Last March, I madea presentation on Turkey for Chiba International Associa-tion (with video, posters, pamphlets, Turkish desserts, andvarious herb teas). Of course my IUJ experience, espe-cially cooperating with international associations and pre-sentation experiences in IUJ really helped me out. I didthis for the sake of doing some good things. For example, inlast years earthquake donation campaign, we (JUSCO)collected $330,000 and this achievement has its roots in IUJ.

Korkut receives hisBlackbelt - Fall ‘98

PHOTOKorkut



featur ing MANYEntrepreneurs and moreWedding be l ls

‘85Hiroyuki Abe helped coordinate the Glocom Forumin New York City in October - Thank you. ElevenIUJers attend the lecture and social events surround-ing the Forum (see related article). Haruya Koide isSenior Co-financing Officer, Asian Development Bankin the Philippines. Ichiro “Max” Matsumura is incharge of the Fat as the Manager of a Food Divisionfor Itochu International in San Francisco. ThomasRemongar N. Dennis is at last off the missing alumnilist. We found him safe in the USA after his life andfamily were torn apart from the years of war in hishomeland Liberia. All of his possessions were lost andhis family members greatly pained by that tragedy.We are so glad to be in touch andknow he and his family are on theway to recovering what they can.If you have pictures or memories toshare with him, please look hisaddress up on the Alumni OnlineDirectory and contact him.

‘86Yuko Sakai is in London with Industrial Bank ofJapan serving as Manager, European Agency Depart-ment. Yuko and other IUJers in London recentlyenjoyed good food and an outdoor opera. See infor-mation in Alumni Chapter News. “Ken” KiyotsuneKikkawa published a book titled “Down to Earth” inearly December in Japan. The book is about his lifeand experience in Australia, and includes a bit aboutIUJ. It is in Japanese and published by Bungeisha.Ken is still in Australia with the Government. Ifanyone else has written a book, please send it to theAlumni Relations office so we can exhibit it on cam-pus (See related article). Sukchan Songphol is nowon assignment in Brussels, Belgium for his governmentas Commercial Attache.

‘87Moriyuki Sawa’s company Nippon Fire & MarineInsurance will merge with Koa Fire & Marine nextApril. He has been given a new assignment asManager, Europe, Americas and Oceania Division,International Department, Nippon Fire & Marine(What a vast territory to cover!). While familiar withthe US market to some degree after being stationed inNYC from `87 to `92, he is ready to figure out theEuropean and Australian markets as well. YoShimoyama keeps at it in London with NSK-RHPEurope Ltd as Treasurer of the Finance Department.Kayoko Tatsumi is pursuing a PhD and LSE inLondon.

‘88For the past 2 years, Morio Iwasaki has been servingas President of Panasonic Taiwan Laboratories.,Co.Ltd (PTL) in Taipei, Taiwan. He is there on loanfrom Matsushita Electric. PTL is in charge of Tech-nology developments (especially Software) andindustrial investigations regarding mainly Taiwan. PTLhas around 45 employees and consists of 70% masterlevel Taiwanese engineers. Now, PTL is developing somany kinds of software related with Digital TV, DVD,Car Navigation system and so on. Tetsuo Karaki isone of three alumni in Belgium. He is the Europeanrepresentative of Fujistu. Watch for contact fromSongphol (`86) who is moving there in a few weeks!Masaaki Tahara bought a house in the suburbs ofNY about 3 years ago and is living comfortably withhis wife Denise (IUJ exchange student in `88) andtheir two children. Yaw Osei-Amo is currently atUniversity of Queensland as a PhD student. Aftergraduation, he went to Australia and for the past 10years worked as a Public servant with the Departmentof Social Security. He resigned to fulfill his dream of

further study. Qwame Homawoo isback in Japan after a period in UAEfor Nissan Motors. He is nowSection Manager, Finance andAccounts for Nissan out of Tokyo.Masami Matsumoto is on loanfrom Nippon Fire & Marine Insur-ance to Non-Life Insurance Instituteof Japan as a researcher for a two-years assignment. Augusto Zumbois Sales Director for a internet start

up company in Italy, and boasts two beautiful daugh-ters, 7 and 2. Chartprasert Nophadol is an AssistantProfessor at Thammasat University, and has been onIUJ campus conducting research all Fall.

‘89In a recent reshuffling at SG Yamaichi, Erol Emedbecame CIO (Chief Investment Officer) and of Headof Quantitative Asset Management and AlternativeInvestments. Campus is looking forward to his visit torecruit interns during IUJ Career Week. Asim Ozguris “Strategic Business Development Manager” report-ing directly to the General Manager (CEO) at aCellular Network Operator named “Turkcell IletisimHizmetleri AS”. It is a Turkish GSM operator listed onthe New York Stock Exchange. Yusuf RehanRahman is in a confusing situation. He works forSeishin Enterprise Co. Ltd, in Tokyo, but does so fromIndia, only traveling to Japan on occasion. We areglad you do not have to commute! Dilun Tan is stillwith NSK Ltd. (formerly called Nihon Seiko Co. Ltd),but now in Toronto Canada. He worked in Kyoto for2 years, Tokyo for 4 years, Shanghai for 4 yearsbefore heading West. He has just started an Execu-tive MBA program in Richard Ivey School of Businessof the University of Western Ontario, and will chal-lenge that while working. David Kaput is SeniorVice President & Chief Human Resources Officer fora new company under Marubeni, Global BandwidthSolutions, Inc. run out of New York with offices inTokyo. Hanafi Guciano, founding chairman of theIndonesia Alumni Chapter, got married in Jakarta inNovember.

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‘90Masayoshi Ihara (IR) is in Japan working for Bristol-Myers Squibb in the Marketing Division. He is a faithfulviewer of the IUJ Alumni Homepages. THANKS.

Jason “Eddie” Bowers (IR)got married in September andsent us lots of pictures viaAtsushi Nezu (IR) whoattended the wedding alongwith Paul Consalvi (IR91).Muniandy “Jega”Jegathesan (IR) and wifeKyoko had a baby girl inNovember. Doug Kuffel (IR)

retired from Matsushita Electric Works after more than10 years to become the President of Asia RP, Inc.,located in Metro Manila, Philippines. It is an independentrepresentative company, specializing in the electronicsand semiconductor industries and is looking for excellentoverseas-based companies who would like to sell theirproducts or services in the Philippine market, but do notwish to make the big investment of opening their ownbranch office. Felicia Anderson (IR) is now the Sr.Global Marketing Communications Manager for DowChemical with staff working for her in Europe, Asia andthe States. They just opened a plant in China, so she maybe on her way there. James Fiorillo (IM) has beenracing motorcross/enduro/rally these days in preparationfor his debut in the International Rally Circuit. He wasscheduled to be in the UAE Desert Challenge (on amotorcycle of course) last November - a four day, 400kper day rally in the desert. But he had an accident whileracing moto-x on Honda’s pro test track in Saitama inmid-October and knocked out 7 teeth. He had to fly tothe USA for surgery. Titanium, extraction and bonegrafting. He is okay now and back racing again. “Korinai-Yatsu…” and trying to knock the rest of his teeth out inplaying Ice Hockey. When in a business suit, James isthe Senior Analyst in the Research Department of INGBarring Securities in Tokyo. Jim Biolos (IM) juststarted his own company in Dec. 2000: Launch Publishinghelps companies develop new publications and createinteresting content on the Web. www.smarter-fm.com

‘91Marcus Mbwala (IR) is with theBank of Tanzania in Research Depart-ment, Data Processing Division as aPrincipal Statistician. Mukela F.Luanga (IR) is Counselor, EconomicResearch and Analysis Division, WorldTrade Organization. He used ourAlumni Online Directory function toadd his own photo! See it here, and see it online! Howabout adding your own? Craig Wallace (IR) is off themissing list! We know he is in Arlington, Virginia USAbut not sure what he does . . We hope to hear more fromyou Craig! Dian Mei Zhang (IR) is Manager of theOverseas Division for Laser Technology in Tokyo.Naoyuki Kaneda (IM) started up his own company thissummer called AsianNet to consult on Japan-Chinabusiness relations. Patrick Agbakpe (IR) got a perma-nent residence in Japan after his 9 years’ stay. Hegraduated from Temple University Japan’s ExecutiveMBA program in this July and is now in GE as KeiriBucho (accounting controller).

‘92Stephen G. Pierce (IR) is President of his own com-pany, SGP Ventures, Inc.: www.sgpventures.com., Wehope to learn more from him on his perspectives fromSilicon Valley. Robert Jones (IM) also started his owncompany in Hong Kong. The vision of Financial ControlLtd. is to create a premier financial training and consultingfirm with global reach. For a full description, see theOnline Discussion Board - Business Exchange section.They also specialize in placing finance/accounting personsinto companies in Asia. Want a new job? Let him know.See www.financialcontrollimited.com NobuhikoIshihara (IR) is Director of JVC Korea Co., Ltd. AkiraIikura (IR) received an award from Yamanashi Pref.Bungaku-sho for his novel “Tabi no Hate.” Congratula-tions! It is published by Yamanashi Nichi Nichi Shinbun.Manoj Shah (IM) is in the US with Dow Corning Corpo-ration as their Global Business Process Analyst.Neelakanth Phadke (IM) stopped by campus for a quickvisit while this newsletter was being drafted. He is theregional advisor for India with Sumitomo Marine & FireInsurance Co. Prasnee Surastian (IM) joined StandardChartered Bank as finance manager after working withThai Farmers Asset Management Co., Ltd. for six years.This bank acquired a local bank and changed its name toStandard Chartered Nakornthon Bank. He is assisting theCFO in integration, clean up, setting up some systems, etc.He visited Japan last November for 9 days after 6 yearsfor a reunion of ASEAN graduates sponsored by theJapanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

‘93Shinichi Ohashi (IR) joined the wedding reception ofShinichiro Okuyama (IR) with seven other IUJers.

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Naresh Makhijani (IM) had a baby girl, in November:his second child. But Doug Loucks (IM) and wife Karacan teach them the ropes about baby girls, as they have a10 month old. Doug works for bp (yes, that is accurate.)

‘94Xue Wang (IR) is in Tokyo as Manager of marketing forCorning International Corporation, a telecommunicationscompany. Sanjay “Jay” Kumar Dwivedi (IM) sends ingood news about MyNippon.com (as introduced in July):“MyNippon has made a lot of progress and this month[November] we are hoping to exceed 100,000 pageviews. We have made MYNIPPON highly popular inseveral Asian countries besides Japan. On a personalnote, I have been selected by the world’s largest onlinepackaging community to write a weekly article under“Market Perspectives” at www.packagingnetwork.com.”Takayuki Miyauchi (IM) passed US CPA in August.

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‘95Madura Mannapperuma (IM) became a father onthe 4th of July and was blessed with a baby girl.Gwen Norris (IR) is back in Niigata Prefecture onthe coastal town of Joetsu in a badly described teach-ing position, but loving the town and people. We hopeshe finds a better niche in cross-cultural businessconsulting soon! Tao Yang (IM) joined Pricewater-house Coopers’ Financial Advisory Service Co. Ltd.,responsible for automotive & manufacturing industryout of the Kasumigaseki office. Nachiketa Das (IM)left Tokyo but stayed with Lehman Brothers. He is

challenging a new role within risk management inLehman in New York. Tadashi Inagaki (IM) andTakeshi Peter Iura (IM) are teaming up at PfizerPharmaceuticals in new product planning for pharma-ceutical products for traumatic brain injury, urgeincontinence, asthma etc. Jens Hohenberg (IM) iswith Deutsche Bank when not holidaying in Bali!Gary Wong (IM) has joined Ashutosh Tripathi (IM)at Merrill Lynch Japan. Hisashi Kinoshita (IM) is inLondon with Nippon Mitsubishi Oil (U.K.). He andhis wife and son were joined by a baby girl named“Maria” (“Virgin Mary” in English) in August. Be-cause of late nights in the office he fears his baby girlwill forget his face so holds all the time. He recentlypassed the US-CPA examination in Illinois. Hereturns to Japan later this year and looks forward toseeing his alumni friends. Haiman Xia (IM) has anew job in the IFC in DC: working on power (electric-ity) projects. IR95, we miss hearing from you!

‘96Can you imagine . . . Isidoro Hernandez (IM) isresponsible for creating subsidiaries all around theworld for his company AEA Technology - Hyprotech.He “lives” in Barcelona but most of the time is on theroad. India was his biggest success in 2000, with thenew office opening in September. He then went rightto work hiring staff for offices in Spain, India, EasternEurope and South Africa. Way to go Isidoro!Satoshi Imahara (IM) has been in Chicago for almost4 years. He shaved off his beard right after gradua-tion but is still playing his guitar - in clubs. Carol Park(IM) is busy being a mommy, and was expecting hersecond baby as this newsletter was in draft. How areyou and the baby Carol? Did Geetha Govindasamy(IR) get to visit you last month? Ian Walcott (IR) isrunning his own consultancy firm and was ProjectManager for the First Caribbean and Latin AmericanConference on Project Management. Ike Anyanwu,(IR) also running his own business in Niigata, recentlyused the Alumni Network to get feedback and inputinto his new web site http://www.iseek.co.jp. Hisservice is to provide a searchable resource on Japa-nese companies or Foreign companies with a signifi-cant interest in Japan. Naresh Chotai, (IR) after twoyears with Matsushita in Japan, moved to the UK in1998 and after a brief stint in the Finance Dept, is nowin Corporate Planning. He finds it an “interestingexperience, useful exposure to European Business &Management environment, and very different fromJapan.” Saiful Islam (IR) is teaching in the Dept. ofEconomics, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh. AshokSayenju (IR) is Visiting Study Fellow at the RefugeeStudies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House, OxfordUniversity. He just finished work with UNDP NepalOffice as a national consultant.

‘97Yoshiteru Tsuji (IR) was interviewed in a graduateschool directory describing his days at IUJ and helpingto promote the MA program. Tsuji-san is in Iraq withUNHCR. Desmond Liong (IR) is back in Japanafter finishing studies in Chicago. He is now atBarcklays Capital. Khalid Moutawakkil (IR) ispursuing a PhD in Japan while working as a financiallawyer on the side (picked up some quick financialknowledge along the way). Maqsood Ahmed (IR) isthe Data Accounts Manager at MCI Worldcom inJapan, finding a job lead from the IUJ Alumni Discus-sions Board - Job hunters section. Yukino Yamada(IR) appeared in an ad of Daiwa Research Institute inNihon Keizai Shinbun in July She is currently workingthere as an analyst of the Australian economy andmarket. Prassana Ganesh (IR) left Japan in Septem-ber 2000 and after a brief vacation in India he movedto Sydney. He has just started working as an Associ-ate in A.T. Kearney Australia Pty Ltd. Juliana Chan(IR) became a mom! Abigail Bea Chan was born on23 June 2000 and was named after good friend at IUJBea Dwiwati (IR). Juliana is now working at theMalaysian Institute of Accountants as a Manager,Professional Development. One more baby! This timea boy. The family of Xueyi Pan (IM) is welcomingtheir second child as their newest member. He is soproud. Pan is working with the Bank of America in

Are you Published?Alumni Relations office is planning aspecial permanent exhibit on campus ofIUJ Alumni books and articles in the“Memories Shelves.” If you have writ-ten a book or significant other work(please provide some kind of binding),please mail it in to campus, signed withyour class date and any memories, com-ments or stories about campus you wouldlike to share with future IUJers (itemswill not be returned). If possible, includeyour picture (tape it in the front cover?).We will put your work and any commentson display shelves in the first floor ofMLIC just outside the Study Room and inthe lounging area. The shelves weredonated as a class gift from the Class of

2000. If you have somethingelse to share, feel free tosend it in.

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Tokyo. Kriangsak Tangpradubkiat (IM) and his wifeAnn are enjoying the new role as parents to a 6 month-old cute little girl (Tang said she looks JUST like him)named Mudmee (a type of Thai Silk). Tang himself is

still working with SiamCement in Bangkok.Bobby Wilde (IM) toobecame a father to a littleboy Drake, and broughthim back to campus for avisit before he and hiswife headed for Califor-nia, USA for work at anew company to distrib-ute music on the Net. Ty

Jernstedt (IM) was “in” the Olympics in Sydney -well, as a fan and late night partier, and promotingathletes and products for Nike and other clients.“Sydney will never be the same.”

‘98Josh Huck (IR), after several years in the darkestjungles of Laos (and an indeterminable length of time inthe urban jungles of Bangkok), has returned to the USA.He works for the Economic Development Departmentof the State of Maryland, primarily to assist foreignbusinesses interested in relocating or expanding theirfacilities in Maryland. Josh wrote a great essay on JobHunting in the Non-Profit world with an IDP degree forcurrent students. THANK YOU. Adrian Lochrin(IR) spent all of 1999 working on East Timor, finishingup on projects in May 2000. “Fascinating work, a realcareer highlight. And I got to travel to Timor in Januarywhich was pretty cool - staying with INTERFET. Theonly thing that surprised me was the Timorese them-selves - amazingly cheerful given what they had gonethrough and what little they had left standing after theIndonesian Army and militias had been through.”Adrian went from winter to winter and flooding inrelocating to London on a 12-month assignment. YujiKano (IR) met up with many of his friends and a fewnew IUJers while in Jakarta in September. Using theAlumni mailing lists, he made last minute arrangementsfor two lunches! Liang “Tiger” Tan (IR) first workedin Shenyin & Wanguo Securities Company right afterIUJ, then changed to China Southwest Securities Com-pany (www.swsc.com.cn). His job basically involvesIPOs and project financing. Elysa Coles (IR) left theWorld Bank after 2 years and took some time off in DCand to pursue photography and study French beforestarting her next job with… Nizar Bahaji (IR) wasawarded a Master of Science (MS) degree in IndustrialEngineering from Louisiana State University, BatonRouge, Louisiana, in December. He has joined theDaifuku America Corporation in Salt Lake City, Utah asa simulation engineer. Hees Chinju (IM) continues hisclass leadership by having parties all the time. Thanksfor organizing them! How about bringing everyone tothe March 23 Alumni Gathering for your next Classparty! See you all there. Sakiko Tanaka (IM) left theJapan Bank for International Cooperation to challenge aPhD at Columbia University in New York. Good luck!Kaysee Cardinez (IM) got married in December, andused that as an excuse not to come to IUJ Open Daythis year…. Ken Matsumura (IM) was introduced inan article of Yomiuri Shinbun in October as a successfulexample of the HR system in Tokyo Electric Power Co.

‘99Hongxin “Brian” Yang (IR) works for a Japanesecompany in Yohohama, mainly handling purchasebusiness of foodstuff Japan nationwide and world-wide. Wedding bells will sound for he and JenniferCrow next June in San Jose, CA. They alreadysounded for Thuy Thu Le (IR) and Paolo

Pesamosca (IM98)who married in Sep-tember in Rome, andthen went to Polynesiafor their honeymoon.“The wedding was a lotof fun.” Thuy is withADB Institute andPaulo with NokiaJapan. KurishimaToshiyuki (IR) fromHitachi and Karen Tsui(exchange student fromYork) also just gotmarried in December.

Congratulations!And following their foot steps, Bipasha Majumdar(IR) and Rajesh Bhandula (IM98) will marry in June2001 in the USA. Bipasha is with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Rajesh with Citicorp, both in Tokyo. Allthe best to ALL the Class of 98/99 couples!!!Noriko Yamada (IR) is hard at work with a newstart-up company Institutes for the Achievement ofHuman Potential (www.iahp.org) as Vice President ofthe Japan offices. IAHP is a nonprofit educationalorganization that serves children by introducingparents to the field of child brain development. Par-ents learn how to enhance significantly the develop-ment of their children physically, intellectually andsocially in a joyous and sensible way. FaithKazembe (IR) is in Germany for a few more monthson a training program sponsored by the GermanyGovernment entitled Advanced Training for Profes-sionals in IT-Consulting. She is working forMalawiNet Ltd (ISP) where she is a Business Devel-opment Consultant. Ningning Yue (IR) joinedIMAGICA Corp., the parent company of her previouscompany PHOTRON. She is helping with overseassales in the Motion Picture Division. As one of thelargest film postproduction labs in Japan, the companyis facing the challenge of transition to digital cinemasystem, and very exciting for Yue-san. Shannon-Marie Soni (IR) has accepted a position with theDepartment of Foreign Affairs, Canada. She hasrelocated to Ottawa to begin her French languagetraining. Watch for her at an embassy near you!Innocentus Alhamis (IR) is in the USA now. AfterIUJ he returned to his former job as a Lecturer at theU. of Tanzania and also was a research analyst forthe World Bank before moving to Manchester, NewHampshire and working for the college there. IanMartin (IR) is working at Tokyo University. WhenMala Selvarju (IR) is not watching “Mickey`Kouse`” and Tom and Jerry kids shows with her 2.5year old son she is teaching at her other alma mater -Univ.of Malaya in the Southeast Asian Studies Dept.James Graham (IM) was back on campus to offerpresentations on job hunting and interview skills in hisnew position with an executive search company TMP(formerly Morgan&Banks). Whitney Smith (IM) is

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now Vice President for Japan Equity Sales for CreditSuisse First Boston in New York. She has been veryhelpful in creating a recruiting relationship with theTokyo and Hong Kong offices. THANKS. EstherJeon (IM) is the Commercial Decision Analyst forGlaxoWellcome, a leading pharmaceutical company.Akashi Hongo (IM) volunteered to be interviewedrepresenting the IM alumni for an article of the Japa-nese Business Magazine, Shigoto no Kyoshitsu Dec.2000. Along with MBA holders of other schools inJapan, he talked about how MBA programs in Japanare beneficial. Thank you Hongo-san! Nobuaki Ito(IM) has become the center of public attention afterbeing appointed Senmu (Managing Director) ofMedical Prats. He was introduced as an entrepreneurunder Matsushita Electronic Co. in the Japanesebusiness magazines; Toyo Keizai Weekly (8/12-19/00), Nikkei Business (9/4/00), and President (10/16/00).

2000Ye Nyunt (IR) is at the“Association for Communi-cation of TransculturalStudy” (ACT Foundation) inTokyo as a research officer.ACT occasionally holdsseminars inside and outsideJapan, bringing togetherpeople from academia,business and governments ofdeveloped and developingcountries. MonicaBlagescu (IR) enjoyed hertrip around the world on Peace Boat and is now in a 6-month position with the United Nations University inthe Peace and Governance Program. Shifei Ding(IR) is a Research Association for Asian Develop-

ment Bank Institute in Tokyo. OtgonbayarSandagdorj ((IR) is working on a USAID funded“Gobi Economic Growth Support” project as a nationalconsultant. Weihong Ding (IM) is thankful just tohave a 40 minute commute to her office in Ohtemachiat Bloomberg. She is taking training courses - a goodreview of IUJ studies. She and Tim Aron (IR) oftenhave the chance to lunch together at the free lunch forBloomberg employees. Tim is in the broadcasting sideof business for Bloomberg. Joanna Wong, (IM) after3 months of traveling and relaxing at home, finallydecided to go to work. She is in the marketing depart-ment of a mobile phone company in Hong Kong, calledSmartone which is a JV of British Telecom and SunHong Kei Properties, and is responsible for develop-ment of new services related to mobile data and m-commerce. Darius Spieth (IM) successfully de-fended his Ph.D. dissertation at the University ofIllinois at Urbana-Champaign in October, and now alsoholds a Ph.D. in Art History. At Harvard University’sFogg Art Museum a show curated by him will go onexhibit next summer or fall and will focus on Venetian

eighteenth-centuryprints and printconnoisseurship.

2001&2The Classes of 2001and 2002 have createdthe most diverse IUJcampus yet! The MAschool attracted stu-dents from Laos,Eritoria, Kazakhstan,

Tajikistan and Latvia for the first time. The MBA pro-gram has the largest numbers on campus this year - 70first year students and 64 second year students, and ourfirst student from Azerbaijan. Graduation is June 27and 42 MA and 64 MBA’s will join our network

Career ServicesReport 2000T h e b e s t r e s u l t s y et!

Campus is delighted to report our best outcome yet forgraduates finding jobs before graduation, and intern hope-fuls securing a summer opportunity. A full “2000 Place-ment Report and 2001 Outlook” is on the CareerHomepages in a PDF file for your review.

Results for those appearing in the Resume Book (thusregistering with CC&S for assistants) follows: All thatwanted a job in the MBA school had one before gradu-ation. A few chose to return home before starting theirsearch. The MA school did not fair as well, but within 3months of graduation 85% had a job.

On the internship front, thanks in no small way to ouralumni, 44 IUJers had a summer internship. Only 4 that

were seriously hunting were unable to get an opportu-nity. Several decided to return home or study ratherthan pursue an internship. Several were offered jobs asa result of their summer performance, and other compa-nies were attracted to IUJers after hearing of this.

As a result, IUJ Career Week (on-campus recruitingfocus) will see over 20 companies (and counting) oncampus for recruiting activities, and others participatingfrom Tokyo or overseas through Winter and Spring.

This year we have 72 intern candidates - our largestgroup to assist by 8. Job hunters, too number over 50.We need more help from our great alumni than ever!

Can you help: 1) Host an intern (in Japan or overseas- or even a “distance internship”), 2) Recruit on campusor send in job opening information, 3) Offer a homestayto an intern to help offset the cost of living 4) send inyour advice and your story and provide A-CAN help

T o h e l p u s b u i l d t h e p r o g r a m ,p lease con tac t ccs@ iu j . ac . j p .

Gretchen Shinoda (1989 and CC&S)



THANK You, Alumni, for helping . . .Br ing new s tudents to campus . . .Special Thanks to you all for helping in the IUJ Explanation Event in Tokyo last Fall.Korkut Bilgin (IR96), Kiyotaka Matsuda (IR96), Katsuhiko Matsugi (IR97), Vis Prabhakaran (IM99), Kaoru Miyamoto (IR99), GordyPalmquist (IR2000), Masaru Yokoi (IM2000), Tawin Charnchaichujit (IM2000), Nitin Datar (IM2000),

Many many thanks for the help at World-wide MBA ForumsIn Tokyo: Nobuaki Ito (GS99),Katsuya Kagiwada (IM99), and Korkut Bilgin (IR96)In Seoul: Kang Ho (IR91), Nobuhiko Ishihara (IR92), and Solo Mara (IR99)In Paris: Taos Fudji (IM 1997)In Jakarta: S. Fadjar Indra (IM94) Diah Januarti (IR97), Rizana Noor (IM99), Sunar Dwiantoro (IM99)

IUJ Ambassadors help IUJ promotecampus for new student recruitment

initiatives. Recently, IUJ asked for helpfrom this volunteer list and others todistribute IUJ posters and new bro-chures. They also answer e-mail

questions from prospective students, helpwith faculty and staff in their region on

recruitment missions and more…

. . . AndS e n d them out in to the wor ldFall Term Career Exploration Panels: Job Hunting Strategies: James Graham (IM2000), Consulting: Andrew Fried (IM93), Agnes Du(IM99) and Akiko Miyashita (IR99). Finance - Ted Lo (IM90), Paul Consalvi (IR91) and Neil Hagan (IM99). Int’l Development ThinkTanks -Naonobu Minato (IR91). Joshua Huck (IR98) sent in great advice to job hunters in development issues in SE Asia.

We look forward to seeing on campus for recruiting activities. K. Ando (87), Andrew Fried, Erol Emed (IR89), David Kaput (IR89),Toshiya Tamada (IM92), Jason Klismith (IR99), Neil Hagan (IM99), Gordy Palmquist (IR2000), Nitin Datar (IR2000), and many more!

Also, special thanks to the over 500 A-CAN Volunteers that offer advice and guidance to students on their job andinternship hunts.

Our wonderful IUJ Ambassadors* are:1985 Tsuchiya, Koichi; Cheang, Kok Yun; Jo, Masataka; 1986Kikkawa, Kiyotsune; Delannoy, Christian; 1987 Yamane,Toshimichi; De Leon, Ma. Fidelis L.; Sawa, Moriyuki; Scott, Sorrien; Van Es, Frank; Gerardus Maria Antonius; Venkataramani, Raja;1988 Ikeda, Akira; Osei-Amo, Yaw; Malik, Waheed; Flynn Jr.,Michael ; Akitomo, Kazuhiro; Homawoo, Qwame ; 1989 Sison,Ignacio (Iggy) Ordonez; Ozgur, Asim;Hirayama, Yoshikuni; Emed, Erol; Kaput, David; Lee, Keun Wung; Malik, Ahmad Rashid; Sethi,Vinita (Mehra); Srinivasan, Venkat; Umetsu,Chieko; King, Jonathan ; 1990 Bowers, Eddie;de Lapeyriere, Guillaume M.F.; Kuffel, DouglasL.; Ullah, Md. Hemayet; Huang, Wei Xin; Taga,Junji; Biolos, James Mitchell; 1991 Da Silva,Fernando; Lin, Yong; Luanga, Mukela;Ridgeon, Lloyd ; Wongsinsawat, Sasiwat;Minato, Naonobu; Bui, Minh Dung; Calich,Claudia; Nakashima, Keiichi; Ge, Jianping;1992 Buchanan, Patrick Joseph; Wibowo, Hadi;Pierce, Stephen ; Myint, San Maung; Lim, Joel;Jiang, Shengtao; Dwiyanto, Wibowo; Cooray, NawalageSeneviratne; Castillo, Gilbert Saturno; Ito, Tsukasa; Momohara,Shigehisa; Yoshino, Takehiro; Curran, Brendan; Jones, Robert;Phadke, Neelakanth Purushottam; Yoza, Linda Mariko; 1993 Ahmad-Amin, Kenana Baker; Nik Rosdi, Nik Yusoff; Phiri, Martin Kaluluma;Obeng-Diawuoh, Benjamin; Lekhyananda, Pangkwan; Ahmad-Amin, Madiha Baker; Corpuz, Catherine Frances Julian; Beng, QuahKung; Loucks, Doug; Fujiwara, Ichita; Bhanap, Jitendra D.; Ahuja,Atul; Winslow, Jonathan C.; Teramachi,Norimasa; 1994 Valasutean,Septimiu Dumitru; Halvorsen, Jan; Krastev, Vassil Plamenov;Molinari, Sergio; Nurdin, Hamdhan; Ahmed, Kamal Uddin; Sto.Domingo, Mariano Roxas; Christensen, Thomas Hojlund; Santos,Mauro Jose Dos; Panda, Abinash; Kpentey, Bennet; Bashford,Graeme William; Yorulmaz, Tunc; Wolongiewicz, Mariusz; Bedi,Sukhdev Singh; Calcinai, Marco; Indra, Sjamsoe Fadjar;Padmagiriswaran, Shoba; Phuphathanaphong, Athikom; Salita,Angel Jr. Magtoto; Stewart, Bud; Munns, Peter John Saxby; 1995Carey, Douglas; Widyani, Rasmi; Tan, Cheng Woi; Rose, Sarah;

Norris, Gwendolyn; Macabuhay, Jose Felix Ver; Kornhauser, David; Blando, Deomides ; Domitter, Christopher ; Jiang, Gang; Hougen,Haiman Xia; Kamogawa, Tetsuya; Chervitz, Harvey ; Das,Nachiketa; Mallya, Smitha; Inagaki, Tadashi; Widjojo, Edhi; Yang,Tao; Okcular, Ahmet; Pappani, William; Poedjiwati, Dyah;Thygesen, Christian; 1996 Ahweng, Jean Claude; Ahmed,Shamim; Moniruzzaman, Md.; Walcott, Ian; Kumar, Sanjeev;

Grimm, Lisa; Mino, Akimune; Baker,Alexander; Li, Hanqing; Dubey, DevaDutta; Hernandez, Isidoro; Moritani,Oscar Daniel; Dimiati, Ahmad; 1997Sztaricskai, Tibor; Paleewongse,Saranya; Kataoka, Mitsuhiko; Fujioka,Kiyomi; Ahmed, Hafiz Maqsood;Pamonag, Febe; Buck, Christian; Jha,Arbind; Cho, Youngbin; Chowdhury,Tahmina; Farid, Mahbub -E-; Fudji,Taos; Hussain, Mahmud; Jernstedt, Ty;Nomura, Shunichi “Shu”; Tangprad-ubkiat, Kriangsak; Ishimaru, Seigo;1998 Xie, Bingwu; Lochrin, Adrian;

Chacko, Paul; Draman, Abdul-Rasheed; Haryono, Erwin;Ssenyonjo, John Mujunga; Buck, Christiane; Szeto, Jesse;Mendoza, Edwin; Quartey, Felix Mankata; Kamal, Sheikh Md.;Go, Judy Ann Tan; Blacker, Roger; Aloccio, Axel; 1999 Florano,Ebinezer; Tan, Liang; Valle, Jose Ramon; Arain, Aamir; Mara, Solo;Popovici, Andreea-Manuela; Mzee, Kulsum Hussein Ahmed;Miyashita, Asako; Martin, Ian; Majumdar, Bipasha; Le, Thuy Thu;Jensen, Olivia; Maziarz, Konrad; Selvaraju, Mala; Hemil;Sandikcioglu, Pinar; Jiang, Ling; Katsumi, Hiroyuki; Sun, Jinhui;Kebede, Abebual Ameha; Lin, Carol; Prabhakaran, Visveswaran;Jeon, Esther Jihyun; Allouard, Pascal; Narang, Girish; Ikeda,Yoshinobu; Ihara, Koji; Hjelle, Monica; Basara, Serdar; Funston,Ted; 2000 Nguyen, Ha Thanh; Mele, Steve; Brekke, Kathrine;Blagescu, Monica; Namiki, David; Yokoi, Masaru; Charnchaichujit,Tawin; Ju, Feng

To learn more about these volun-teer programs, and campus in-volvement programs, see the IUJHomepage, Volunteers section andsign up on the Online Directory.



Brazil InvestmentReport Mauro JD Santos IR94 http://www.artwork.com.br

Companies and organizations from all over the world areinvited to invest in culture in Brazil under the BrazilianGovernment Law of Cultural Incentive Initiative. Thebenefit is a 4% profit tax cuts for those investing in ac-credited cultural projects approved under the Law, thougha Brazilian tax contributor number named “CNPJ” is re-quired to receive the tax cuts. For those who wish toinvest in Cultural Marketing in Brazil, but are not cur-rently establish in the country, there is no additional in-centive but the cultural marketing aspect itself.

Projects approved comprehend a wide field of culturalaspects. Some are related to the historical colonizationof the region based on the Portuguese settlement, archi-tecture, habits, and likes. Others are related to music,construction of an university center hall, elderly groupsactivities, arts shows, dance festival, painting, literatureand others.

Full information can be provided to any firm interested inbecoming a partner of Brazil’s past and present culture,having on its marketing strategy or organizations objec-tive related to closing with local cultural initiatives. Thereward is granted by an extremely skilled team of uni-versity professors (mainly PhDs) who provide full re-search and support to each project.

If you or your company have interest in the above sub-ject, please feel free to contact me. I am responsible formarketing the projects to the global community.

Can you he lp ou t theGSO-EC Budget and dona te :

CD Player and speakers for 2F gymExercise equipment for the 2F Gym

Baseball Bats and MitsBasketballs and Volleyballs

Sports uniformsComputers for GSO-EC office & Group Study Room

Used videos to watch late at night on campusBooks (novels) for the Book Swap library

Donations of online resource centers (Hoovers, etc.)

A n d w h i l e w e a r e a s k i n g ,Career Serv ices needs :

A VHS video camera with tripodA computer projector for MLIC 3F

OTHER - ask us

If you can donate any of these or other items,please contact the Alumni Relations office tofind out specifications, and be sure we still havethe need. Please only useable items!

IUJ E lect ive Course seeks Rea l - l i fe p ro jects

“Marketing and Other PresentationTechniques for Global Business”IUJ offers the above course as an elective during Winter and Spring Terms, and has at its core a project from the realworld instead of lectures, textbooks and case discussions. Projects are referred into the course from corporations andorganizations operating in Japan and other countries. Once the project is accepted, a team of 3 to 5 students completeit like an in-house marketing department or an outside marketing firm would.

What does the participating company do? The company provides a short project proposal to the course instructorstating 1) the objectives of the project, 2) the contact information, and 3) a brief history (if any) of any research orother work previously completed in areas related to the project. The students work on the project on a semi-indepen-dent basis meaning the company provides basic direction for the project, but not direct supervision.

What types of projects are suitable for the course? Most of the past projects in the course have been marketingresearch projects, leading to recommendations on where and how to market the product or service under study. Fora list, contact the supervising professor noted below.

To learn more , p lease contact P ro f . Dav id Waters :[email protected], Tel. 81(0)257-79-1521

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Alumni Of f ice Contact In foIUJ, Yamato-machi, Niigata 949-7277 E-mail: [email protected] Tel. +(81)(0)257-79-1438 Fax. 79-1180

Alumni Homepage: http://www.iuj.ac.jp/alumni/Alumni Board E-mail: [email protected] Mailing Lists i?-class##@iuj.ac.jp, i?-class2000@ (must send from your Primary Email as registered)

Editor’s NoteWe often here from alumni how they want to contribute to campus. They want to be more involved with IUJ evenif they are not in Japan. We hope this issue gave you some ideas on how you can do that: You can meet online toshare views on Online Discussions (Alumni requested this but no one is using it!); donate THINGS, host an intern,provide a homestay, help with new student recruitment, create consulting projects for current students throughprofessors’ course work, and more! Search for your IUJ friends and make new ones in your area through Chapteractivities. And please, keep campus informed of your activities so we can share your news in ClassNotes! Ournetwork grows and it is exciting! Gretchen Shinoda (IR89), Alumni Relations & Career Counseling (CC&S)

D e a d l i n e f o r t h e J u l y 2 0 0 1 A l u m n i N e w s l e t t e r i s J u n e 1 5 , 2 0 0 1Theme: Update on GSIR and plans for the 20th Anniversary of IUJ!

Events Calendar: http://www.iuj.ac.jp/@iuj/Career Homepage: http://www.iuj.ac.jp/career/

State of theAlumni NetworkWe would like to thank you all for your help in our Sum-mer Alumni Database updating project. If we did notcontact you over the summer months, and if you havenew information for us, please visit the AlumniHomepage, Online Directory and edit your profile. Orfax your information to +81-(0)257-79-1180.

Here is an update of where our Network stands

Currently, we have E-mail contact with over 1030 of the1521 strong Alumni Network (that could be higher butwe must delete e-mail that bounces back to us undeliv-erable!). This is up from just over 600 as reported inJuly 2000.

Over 650 have a password to the Online Directories,Discussion Boards and Global Workplace log-in infor-mation (and that number grows daily). At least twice aweek messages are sent to various classes by their peers,and roughly once every 6 weeks information is sent di-rectly from campus via e-mail. Alumni activities andevents are put on the Campus Calendar of events, view-able from www.iuj.ac.jp/@iuj and the AlumniHomepages.

As a reminder your Primary E-mail as registered withus serves as your logon name to the IUJ AlumniHomepages’ password controlled sections. In thosesections you can find a searchable Online Alumni Di-rectory. View contact information on screen and/ordownload information you need. If you forgot your Pri-mary Email and/or password, there is help on the logonscreen.

Also in the password-controlled section, find Online Dis-cussions, including Job Openings we know about, ANDaccess to Global Workplace. Check out the calendar ofevents to see if any alumni activities are happening inyour area (and if not, can you make one!?!). Gain ac-cess to the Campus Directory to find your professors

今年の夏、日本在住の同窓生を中心に「同窓会データベースアップデートプロジェクト」を行いました。お忙しい中、学生センターからの電話やE - m a i l にご返事いただき、大変有難うございました！お蔭様でデータの精度がかなり上がりました！

同窓会名簿は、今後、紙で発行はせず、ホームページ上のオンライン名簿から Word か Excel にダウンロードしていただくことになります。もし、うまくいかない、あるいは、ご質問などありましたら、いつでも学生センター同窓会担当（[email protected])までお尋ね下さい。

また、住所の更新は同窓会ホームページ上で行うことができます。変更等ありましたら、下記アドレスへアクセスしてみて下さい。http://www.iuj.ac.jp/alumni

今回、初めて E-mail アドレスをご登録いただいた方へ：クラスメートの方へ E-mail を送信したり、受信したりすることができます。下の Editor's Note に書いてある通り Class Mailing Lists のアドレスを入れますと E-mailを登録しているクラスメート全員に一度で E-mail を送ることができます。

その他、同窓会ホームページには楽しくて便利な情報がたくさん掲載されています。是非ご覧下さい！

and remaining campus friends (Yes, Hiura-san and Kojima-san are still working hard on campus!). Also see pressreleases and campus announcements and updates, not tomention gorgeous photos that you can send as e-post-cards!

You can also reach your classmates through the Class Emaillists. The pattern is noted in the “Editor’s Note.”

Alumni Chapter activities continue to grow. We currentlyhave 87 contacts in 36 countries. Reports have come infrom the Indonesia and New York Chapters, the buddingLondon Chapter, and even the “Matsushita Scholar Group.”Smaller groups, and parties for classmates have also be-come more and more active as people find each other again.See related stories and ClassNotes.

Please help us strengthen the Network by: 1) Keeping intouch with campus and your profile updated, 2) Finding yourfriends online and sending them a note, 3) Arranging activi-ties in your area to meet other alumni, 4) Attending theMarch 23 Annual Meeting in Tokyo!

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