Christel Takigawa

French-Japanese Television Announcer & News Presenter

Soichi Noguchi

Japanese Aeronautical Engineer & Astronaut; President of Mirai Space Co.

Toshihiro Mibe

President, CEO & Representative Director of Honda Motor Co.

Honda CEO on Relation With GM, China

Yuzuru Hanyu

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

Shabnam Nasimi

Former Policy Advisor to Minister for Afghan Resettlement & Minister for Refugees, Social & Political Activist; Founder, Executive Director of the Conservative Friends of Afghanistan

Todd Perelmuter

Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker of "Aloneness to Oneness;" Host of "Path to Peace" Podcast & Spiritual Philosopher

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

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"

Morshed Abdulla Al

Cartoonist Behind Morshed Mishu's Illustration; Started the Global Happiness Project to Find Happiness in Tragedies

Kei Nishikori

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

William Burns

President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former US Foreign Service Career Ambassador

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

Jayathma Wickramanayake

Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth at the United Nations

Emi Mahmoud

Poet, Social Activist & UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador

Tim Phillips

Founder, Beyond Conflict

Imam Omar Suleiman

Founder & President of the Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research

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