2025.06.23
Selection of Executive Board Members, Chairperson, Deputy Chairpersons, Secretary General, Deputy Secretary Generals, and Senior Executive Board Members
The Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition reappointed 23 Executive Board Members whose terms of office were expiring at its General Meeting of Members held on 23 June. The Chairperson, Deputy Chairpersons, Secretary General, Deputy Secretary Generals, and Senior Executive Board Members were also selected at an Executive Board Meeting held on the same day.
(As of 23 June, 2025)
| Name | Affiliation and Position |
| TOKURA Masakazu (Reappointed, Chairperson (Senior Executive Board Member)) | Honorary Chair, KEIDANREN (Japan Business Federation) |
| ISHIGE Hiroyuki (Reappointed, Secretary General (Senior Executive Board Member)) | Former Chairman of Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) |
| NIINAMI Takeshi (Reappointed, Deputy Chairperson (Executive Board Member)) | Chairman, Japan Association of Corporate Executives |
| YOSHIMURA Hirofumi (Reappointed, Deputy Chairperson (Executive Board Member)) | Governor of Osaka Prefecture |
| YOKOYAMA Hideyuki (Reappointed, Deputy Chairperson (Executive Board Member)) | Mayor of Osaka City |
| ASAKAWA Chieko (Reappointed, Deputy Chairperson (Executive Board Member)) | Chief Executive Director, Miraikan – The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation IBM Fellow |
| IKENOBO Senko (Reappointed, Deputy Chairperson (Executive Board Member)) | Headmaster Designate, Ikenobo Vice President, Ikenobo Society of Floral Art |
| Oussouby SACKO (Reappointed, Deputy Chairperson (Executive Board Member)) | Former President, Kyoto Seika University/ Emeritus Professor Tokyo Metropolitan Public University Corporation Executive Director |
| OGAWA Michiko (Reappointed, Executive Board Member) | Executive Officer, Government and External Relations, and Solution Partners General Manager, Technics Business Promotion Panasonic Holdings Corporation |
| Robert CAMPBELL (Reappointed, Executive Board Member) | University Professor, Waseda University |
| KURIHARA Mitsue (Reappointed, Executive Board Member) | Secretary of Japan Association of Corporate Executives Chairman of the Board, Value Management Institute, Inc. |
| SANO Mayuko (Reappointed, Executive Board Member） | Professor, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University |
| SAWADA Takuko (Reappointed, Executive Board Member） | Vice Chair, Kansai Economic Federation Director and Vice Chairperson of the Board, Shionogi & Co., Ltd. |
| TERADA Chiyono (Reappointed, Executive Board Member) | Chairperson Emeritus, ART MOVING COMPANY Co., Ltd. |
| NOZAKI Haruko (Reappointed, Executive Board Member) | Executive Vice-President, Kyoto University |
| NODA Yumiko (Reappointed, Executive Board Member) | Vice Chairman, KEIDANREN (Japan Business Federation) Chairman, Veolia Japan GK |
| HIROSE Kyoko (Reappointed, Executive Board Member) | Vice-Chair, Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry Advisor of Business Women’s Club, Osaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry President, Hirose Manufacturing Co., Ltd. |
| FUKUMOTO Tomomi (Reappointed, Executive Board Member) | Senior Advisor, Suntory Foundation for the Arts |
| MITARAI Tamako (Reappointed, Executive Board Member) | President, Kesennuma Knitting Co., Ltd. |
| YOSHINO Tomoko (Reappointed, Executive Board Member) | President, Japanese Trade Union Confederation |
| ONO Heihachiro (Reappointed, Deputy Secretary General (Executive Board Member)) | Former Executive Vice President, POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Ministry of Finance, JAPAN |
| TANAKA Seigo (Reappointed, Deputy Secretary General (Executive Board Member)) | Former Vice Governor of Osaka Prefecture |
| ICHINOKI Manatsu (Reappointed, Deputy Secretary General (Executive Board Member)) | Former Managing Director of Kansai Economic Federation |