(born October 31, 1969, Nagano,

Nagano prefecture is a Landlocked country, landlocked Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,007,682 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture ...

), Japan is an attorney and former President of the

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, a member of the World Board of the

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since 2011, and Senior Manager at the

Japan Business Federation The is an economic organization founded in May 2002 by amalgamation of Keidanren (, Japan Federation of Economic Organizations, established 1946; name sometimes used alone as abbreviation for whole organization) and Nikkeiren (, Japan Federatio ...

. Wada led

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efforts in the aftermath of the

2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami On 11 March 2011, at 14:46:24 Japan Standard Time, JST (05:46:24 UTC), a 9.0–9.1 Submarine earthquake, undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region. It lasted approx ...

, and under her guidance, Girl Scouts of Nagano started a project to support children with needs in partnership with Armenian Girl Guides of the National Union of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts of Armenia. She studied at the Graduate School of Law and Politics of the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

, as well as

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and Knox College. She lives in

Shinjuku-ku , officially called Shinjuku City, is a Special wards of Tokyo, special ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world (Shinjuku Station) as well ...

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. She was admitted, or permitted to practice law, in

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in 2004 via

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External links

*https://scout.org/node/107141 *http://www.girlguides.org.sg/cos/o.x?c=/ggs/pagetree&func=view&rid=6657 *https://1000000forjapangs.wordpress.com/category/japan/ Scouting in Japan Living people Waseda University alumni University of Tokyo alumni 1969 births {{Japan-bio-stub