Supporting Warwick Business School with Japan-an evening with Yasu Sudo, SVP and Country Manager Japan, AMEX.
MD Sarah Parsons has been supporting her alumni University Warwick Business School (WBS) with promoting MBAs in Japan and with bringing together their amazing Japanese alumni.* She was delighted to go over to Japan in April to organise and co-host their second Japan based alumni gathering at the luxurious Okura hotel in Tokyo, overlooking the infamous Tokyo Tower. They were honoured to get WBS MBA Alum Yasu Sudo, SVP, Japan Country Manager, American Express, to speak at this networking event to both alumni, guests and businesses. Yasu did a wonderful fire side chat with another WBS Alumn, Mitchy Itoh, about the his career and experience of building up a global company in Japan, why he chose to do an MBA and also how he implemented this within his career with lots of great advice for prospective MBA candidates.
Yasu has also appeared on Japanese media speaking about his cross-cultural career, and a unique tri-culture that he has helped to develop blending Japanese and global business practices..THE HIGHLIGHT | 【アメックス】失敗を恐れない「トライカルチャー」 - NewsPicks
WBS are immensely proud of their Japanese alumni, many of whom are working in global and Japanese companies bringing in the global outlooks gained from their MBAs and some who are continuing to support important UK Japan collaborations within their business activities and through their networks.
Sarah was incredibly delighted to go back to Japan and also got the chance to go back up to Gunma prefecture to stay with the teachers she worked with back in 1995 when she was an AET on the JET Programme. She also got to see the late Cherry Blossoms and appeared in the Tokyo Shinbun Newspaper Shōbōji Temple in Ota Reopens the Shōkannon Statue for the First Time in 12 Years: Tokyo Shimbun Digital whilst attending an incense ceremony at a temple in Ota featuring a once in 12 year opportunity to view the Shōkannon during the Spring Festival of the Year of the Horse.
The Kannon statue is said to have been made in the Kamakura period, made of cypress parcel wood, and stands 155 centimeters tall. It is designated as an Important Cultural Property by Gunma prefecture.
*Sarah received a Commendation from the Japanese Ambassador to the UK for her work in Chairing the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Alumni Association for 5 years so was able to blend her insights into Japanese business practices and alumni relations to start to support WBS in supporting their Japanese alumni.
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