Our Mission
We connect Japan and Europe, creating spaces where people can meet, learn, grow and share cultures.
Chihiro Hatakeyama
Chihiro was born in Yamagata and raised in Yamanashi, Japan. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Architectural Planning & Engineering from Tohoku University in Japan and later studied architectural design at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London.
Influenced by the diverse arts and crafts of the UK, she worked at an architectural design firm and a construction management company in London, where she gained first and experience of the cultural differences between Europe and Japan through architectural design.
Upon returning to Japan, she spent 18 years in the Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Management sector at foreign-owned companies across the Finance and Healthcare industries. Her expertise includes facility management, project management, transactions, and risk management.
By leading teams and managing several large-scale projects such as a headquarters relocation project in central Tokyo and nationwide office consolidation projects across Japan with collaborating with multinational staff and stakeholders.
Now, together with Yoko, she has launched TSUDOIJapan, a cultural exchange initiative aimed at connecting Japan and Europe. Leveraging her strong leadership and project management skills, TSUDOIJapan will provide unique events and opportunities for cultural engagement.
Chihiro is based in Tokyo with her family.
Yoko Suto-Murphy
Yoko was born in a hot spring resort in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, into a family that ran a Japanese Ryokan Spa business.
Yoko has been involved in a wide range of industries and projects in the past, including financial IT, tourism, customer care, and education.
From an early age, Yoko enjoyed Japanese dance(日本舞踊) , Kimono and Kendo(剣道), and having had many opportunities to experience Japanese culture, she naturally came to want to share traditional Japanese culture with people outside of Japan.
Chihiro and I worked together at a financial company in Tokyo and have been friends ever since. We have now taken advantage of each other's areas of expertise to launch a new company.
Yoko's areas of expertise are educational events, workshop coordination, and training sessions, but she is currently focusing on community revitalization activities.
Yoko currently lives in Northern Ireland and is a mother raising four children with her Irish partner and all of her four children were born in different countries and regions: Tokyo, Singapore, Osaka, and Northern Ireland.
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