Annual Dinner Highlights

Toho Koto Society

Traditional Doll from Silent Auction

North American Sake Brewery & Nanbu Bijin Sake

Mark H. Rooney Taiko

JASWDC President Ryan Shaffer delivers opening remarks

Hiroyuki Takai, Annual Dinner Chairman, introduces His Excellency Shinsuke J. Sugiyama, Japanese Ambassador to the United States

His Excellency Shinsuke J. Sugiyama gives the opening kampai (toast)

Panel discussion moderated by Emma Chanlett-Avery featuring Sheila Smith, Mike Green and Richard Fontaine

Ambassador James Zumwalt (JASWDC Chairman) presents the Marshall Green Award

Minister Kono Taro accepts the Marshall Green Award in absentia

Minister Kono Taro addresses the Dinner

Ambassador John Malott presents the inaugural John & Hiroko Malott Leadership Award

Shanti Shoji, on behalf of Kizuna Across Cultures, John & Hiroko Malott Leadership Award Group Recipient

Joshua Beatty, Individual John & Hiroko Malott Leadership Award Recipient

Shanti Shoji and Ambassador John Malott

Joshua Beatty and Ambassador John Malott

Annual Dinner Chairman Hiroyuki Takai, Sumitomo Corporation of America

Norman Mineta leads the closing Kampai (toast)

Paige Cottingham-Streater and Norman Mineta

John & Hiroko Malott Leadership Award recipients with Norman Mineta

Aoi Takai, Norman Mineta, Hiroyuki Takai

Ambassador Zumwalt, Mrs. Sugiyama, Ambassador Malott, His Excellency Shinsuke J. Sugiyama

Joshua Beatty - John & Hiroko Malott Leadership Award Recipient