Yuzuru Hanyu

Japanese Figure Skater and Ice Show Producer; Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist & World Champion

Mamoru Hosoda

Academy Award-Nominated Japanese Film Director & Animator Known for "Mirai"

Hideaki Anno

Japanese Animator, Filmmaker & Actor Best Known for "Neon Genesis Evangelion"

Kotaro Umeda

Professional Soccer Player & Author

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Japanese Film Director & Screenwriter Known for 'Drive My Car'

Shu Matsuo Post

DEI Advocate, Author & TED Speaker

Kengo Kuma

Japanese Architect & Professor

Sky Brown

#1 at the Park Skateboarding World Championships; 2021 Olympic Bronze Medalist; 2024 Olympics Hopeful

Sky Brown on SportsCenter

Shinichirō Watanabe

Critically-Acclaimed Japanese Anime Filmmaker, Screenwriter & Producer; Best Known for "Cowboy Bebop"

Hirokazu Kore-eda

Japanese Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter & Editor Known for "Like Father, Like Son" and "Shoplifters"

Kei Nishikori

Professional Tennis Player & 1st Tennis Olympic Medalist for Japan in 96 Years

John W. Dower

Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Co-Founder of MIT's "Visualizing Cultures" Project & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Herbert P. Bix

Historian, Teacher & Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Naoki Higashida

Author of "The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year Old Boy with Autism"

Julian Saporiti and Erin Aoyama

Singer-Songwriters, Known for their "No-No Boy's" Multimedia Concert

Yu Darvish

Japanese Pro Baseball Player, Olympic Athlete

William Hall

President of Ipsos Healthcare Japan Ltd. & Chairman, Ipsos Business Consulting Japan

Mitchell Hashimoto

Cofounder, HashiCorp

Sam Mihara

Public Speaker, Personal Account of Japanese American imprisonment

Jikido Aeba

Chairman of the Japanese Conservative Union and a Well-Known Japanese Conservative Columnist