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Connecting Japan and the U.S. through practical work.
Selected work in business development, technology transfer, interpretation and translation, and study abroad.
2022, 2025 & 2026
Interpretation for four business missions: North Carolina (2022 and 2025), South Carolina (2025), and Florida (2026).
2023
Provided interpretation for the opening ceremony in Garner, North Carolina.
2023
Translated technical instructions between Japanese and English.
2022–2024
Supported new business development in life sciences.
2022
Supported device sales activities.
Since 2017 · includes the work before TTKG
Supported global business development in agritech and helped conclude two collaborative agreements with a combined contract value of JPY 30 million.
Researched the genome-editing landscape in U.S. and European agritech and delivered a report.
2023–2024
Served as a business liaison and Japanese–English interpreter and translator, contributing to ARCO securing a manufacturing-facility construction project for a Japanese medical-device company.
2023
Supported U.S. business development for selected products.
2024–2026
Supported the transfer of expansion-microscopy technology based on research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to Dojindo. The technology was commercialized as the Three-Dimensional Expansion Microscopy Kit (4x 3D-ExM).
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2024 & 2025
Organized and operated two-week study-abroad programs in Japan in collaboration with Dr. Tammy Gordon of NC State’s Department of History.
Read NC State’s 2024 student account ↗
2023
Provided a one-month U.S. study program for a Japanese high-school student.