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January Community Services Feature with Human Rights Now
By Tia Haygood, Community Services Director Happy New Year to the FEW community! This month we are featuring another phenomenal NGO in the Tokyo area,…
How I Got Here: Victoria Close
Sometimes I have to pinch myself when I respond to the question, “So, how long have you lived in Japan?” Twenty years sounds like a…
Strategic Partner Spotlight: Divya Marie Kato, Artist & Founder of When In Doubt, Draw
It’s 11:05pm and I’m here writing to you with three days left of 2017. You’ll be reading this in the future, so first let me wish you…
Strategic Partner Spotlight: Tia Haygood, TopTia Photography
Happy 2018! That’s two years from when communication coach, Helen Iwata, hired me as a photographer to cover her presentation at For Empowering Women Japan.…
December Community Services Feature with Angela Ortiz, Founder of A Place To Grow
By Tia Haygood, Community Services Director “When you experience a disaster, when you lose everything that was important, your world falls apart. You lose hope.…
November Meeting Recap: Disruptive Innovation: Shifts in Technology
When Emi Takemura graduated, the internet pretty much didn’t exist, and in her first job there was only one computer, and one email address. So…
How I Got Here: Alicia Narusé
After leaving my home town of Taipei, Taiwan, to study aboard in the United States at age 10, I received an American education from middle…
Strategic Partner Spotlight: Megumi Moss, Founder and CEO, Carefinder
I joined FEW 4 years ago, around the same time I started my company CareFinder, a bilingual babysitter matching site. CareFinder aims to support working…
November Community Services Feature with Charles McJilton of Second Harvest
By Tia Haygood, Community Services Director With Winter and the holiday season around the corner, many of us are mapping out our plans for the…
How I Got Here: Aya McCrindle
In my life, I’ve experience five personal ‘tsunamis’ that threatened to leave me broken, but instead gave me strength and led to the creation of…