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The Japan Times

Founded:	1897
Chairman:	Toshiaki Ogasawara
Capital:	550 million yen
Staff:	App. 160
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About the CEO

Toshiaki Ogasawara is Chairman and Publisher of The Japan Times, Ltd., which publishes Japan's oldest English language newspaper. The company was founded in 1897 and is today the country's only independent English-language newspaper.

Concurrently, he is Chairman of Nifco Inc., which is Japan's premier manufacturer of plastic parts and components for the automobile and home electronic appliance makers. He was elected Chairman in 2001 and, before this, had been President of the company since its formation in 1967.

He also acts as Chairman of Simmons Co. Ltd. This Japanese company is the Far Eastern franchisee of Simmons USA and controls the Simmons franchises' in 18 Asian countries.

He was formerly an Advisory Director with Bank of America, and also presently serves or has served on the advisory boards of Avon, General Electric, LucasVarity, Prudential and NIKE.

He has also served on a number of government committees and is presently a member of the Japan Committee for Cultural & Educational Interchange which reports to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and he is also a member of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry's Global Industrial & Social Program Research Institute and a member of the same ministry's Advisory Board of Japan International Co-operation System.

In addition, he is also active in Japanese business organisations such as Nippon Keidanren and Keizai Doyukai and international organizations such as Asia Pacific Association of Japan, Youth for Understanding, United World Colleges, Japan Center for International Exchange, and others. He has also been appointed as a Trustee for the University of Southern California; Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management; and Temple University Japan: he is also a Governor of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, and is a Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Society.

He was born in 1931 and is married with two children. He graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University. He has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the Universities of South Florida and Florida State.

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About the President

Yukiko Ogasawara is President and Representative Director of The Japan Times, Limited. The Japan Times is Japan's oldest English language newspaper, having been founded in 1898, and it serves the foreign and English-reading Japanese communities. Concurrently, she also sits on the board of Nifco Inc., which is the newspaper's parent company.

Yukiko Ogasawara was born in Japan but spent most of her childhood in the United States of America. She graduated from Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington with a B.A. in Art and pursued her artistic studies with an M.F.A. from the California College of Arts and Crafts in San Francisco, California.

She has been awarded a fellowship from The San Francisco Foundation and has had several exhibitions of her art work in California.

After graduation, she spent some time teaching art and crafts to children whilst she was Artist-in-Residence at the Francisco Middle School in San Francisco at the invitation of the S.F. Arts Education Program. Through her activities, she has shown great interest in children and has made efforts to introduce art and artwork to children through her activities. In Tokyo, she continues these activities in a private capacity but was recently asked to become a director of the Children's Express, a non-profit organization which seeks to educate children in writing, self-expression and artistic expression.

In 2003, Yukiko Ogasawara returned to Tokyo to take up a position as Assistant General Manager of the International Division in Nifco Inc. and was elected a director of the company in 2005. She was appointed as President of The Japan Times in March 2006.

Yukiko Ogasawara was born in Tokyo in 1961 and has residences both in Tokyo and Los Angeles.

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