WHAT WE DO

COLLABORATIONS

IN

JAPANESE CULTURE

J-COLLABO Brooklyn is a 3500 sq ft convertible event space. Conveniently located in Park Slope Brooklyn.

J-COLLABO is a place where the conventions of intercultural chemistry are challenged and the possibilities of creative collaboration and experimentation are deeply explored as a unifying effort between Japanese culture and the cultures of the world. J-Members can use the space for their events, art exhibitions, music concerts, live performances, film screenings and educational seminars etc.

Please e-mail us at info@j-collabo.org for more details.

Supporter :
　＊O&S SHIMODA ART INSTITUTE
　＊Materials For The Arts

J-LABO

J-STAFF BOAD OF DIRECTORS

PRESIDENT

HITOSHI SAGASEKI

Hitoshi was born in Beppu, Oita, on Kyushu Island of Japan, and graduated from Polytechnic University. For 13 years he held the coveted position of Creative Director at the international cosmetics giant, Shiseido, which provided him the opportunity to not only hone his skills in the graphic, product and package design, store design and web design, but in all phases of production and marketing. He is now president of Saga Creative Corp., a design consultancy based in New York City, for new cosmetics brands being introduced to both mass and prestige markets.

http://sagacreativecorp.com/hitoshisagaseki

MANAGERS

J+B PROJECT

YUUA ONCHI

Profile coming soon.

J+B Store Manager

KIMIO TAKEYAMA

Takeyama was born in Miyazaki, Japan. He moved to the United States in 1978, and studied photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City.
After working as an assistant for Macy’s department store in the advertising department, he was soon promoted to an in-house photographer position for the company.
In 1990, he opened Kimio Takeyama Photography Studio in New York City.
He currently works with an impressive roster of prestigious company’s including SHISEIDO la prairie, TATCHA, Glaceau, aRUDE, Seiko Time and Citigroup.
He is also a director of J-collabo.

http://kimiotakeyama.com/

Writing and Accountant

RENA SUNO

One year after graduating from Keio University in Japan with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 2003, she passed Japanese CPA exam, and started her career as an auditor at KPMG AZSA LLC. in Tokyo. She had audited various domestic and international companies for 5 years. The city of NY kept her fascinated for 10 years since she traveled there for the first time, and she left the company to start living in NY in 2009. She started to volunteer weekly free newspaper called “Shukan NY Seikatsu” as a writer. She is now actively working in NY to make her dream of consulting Japanese companies and people in the USA as a Japanese CPA and expanding her opportunities as a writer come true.

KAZUYA IKEURA

Assistant Director of Web Design

Kazuya’s bace is Fukuoka prefecture in Japan. He studied art in Oita Prefectural College of Art and Culture. He worked design in Advertising company. After that, he joined J-COLLABO.Kazuya is artist . his art theme is ‘prayer’. And he makes products of ‘KODOMONOUTA’ . It means children’s ensemble.

http://ikeura-design.com/

J-EVENT(Films)

HISAMI KUROIWA

After working as foreign correspondence at Shueisha Publishing company in early 80’s in New York City, studying at NYU Tish art and Science Graduate School for Cinema Studies, Hisami Kuroiwa established the company, Media Space, Inc. in 1984. She has also worked as a consultant for festivals such as Asian American International Film Festival in NY, Kobe International Film Festival in Japan, and worked on Malatya International Film Festival in Turkey as competition jury in 200, and served as competition jury for Dialogue Culture International Film Festival in New York, in October 2011, and served as competition jury at Thessaloniki International Film Festival in November 2011. She also served as competition Jury at New York Polish Film Festival in May, 2012.

J-Grants Writing

YUKIKO TAKAHASHI

Born in Kobe, Hyogo, Yukiko Takahashi studied theater arts at Osaka University and Performing Arts Administration at NYU. She has been pursuing cultural exchange projects in the performing arts, which she believes are crucial for people of different backgrounds to achieve mutual understanding. Her producing credit includes a Rakugo performance at the United Nations with four-language subtitles and performances by a modern dance company from Sendai in their first appearance abroad following the Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami at La MaMa Moves festival. Yukiko coordinated a tour of Jordan and Palestine by Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks and the first US tour by the Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. She is also involved in the business aspects of commercial theater including international licensing of musicals and straight plays.

Event in Japan

Shogo Nikaido

Nikaido currently, active mainly on the management and casting of various artists and creators at Tokyo, Shibuya. Nikaido engaged in the collaboration with the artists such as a design plan, catalogue production and an event plan. It ties up with hair salon “NINE” of the NY East village in 2011. Other than casting, Nikaido lay emphasis on next generation artists and creators upbringing.

J-EVENT(SAIKO project)

DANIEL GRUNEBAUM

Profile coming soon.

HARUKO SMITH

Founder of The September Concert Foundation, which organizes an annual global festival of music for peace. Haruko is former COO of Felissimo New York, which for 20 years was home to many creative ideas, products and exhibitions, as well as a venue for socially and culturally significant events. In collaboration with UNESCO, she also directed DESIGN 21: Social Design Network, an online community to promote “Design For The Greater Good,” and launched DREAM (Dance, Read, Express Art, Music) Centers for children in post-conflict regions of the world, including Kabul (Afghanistan), Port-au-Prince (Haiti), Phnom Penh (Cambodia), and Monrovia (Liberia).

VICE-PRESIDENT

SACCHI SHIMODA

Sacchi Shimoda was born in Seoul, Korea with Japanese parents. After graduated from Keisen Junior College in Tokyo, she moved to New York to learn graphic art at Parson’s School of Design, NY and graduated from NYC Community College with A.A.B degree in graphic art in 1979. After she worked at Asian Society Gallery, Rockefeller Foundation and some department stores, she started her own business as an art consultant in 1987 and engaged in many international art exhibitions introducing Contemporary American Arts to Japanese Museums.

J+B Store Assistant Manager/J-Member for Artists

AKARI OTOMO

STEPHEN E. GLOBUS

Steve was born and breed in Manhattan. A Venture Capitalist, Mr. Globus first went to Japan when he sold his technology company to Matsushita in 1996. He refers to himself as a “cultural provocateur,” looking for creative talent and fusion combination of Western and Japanese culture to encourage. He has been an important sponsor of Japanese culture in the Metropolitan area. The Globus Film Series is an annual event at Japan Society every Spring which is a major event in Nihon Cinema presentations in USA. He has worked with many cultural institutions including both Asia and Japan Societies. He has a 3 level Japanese NihonMa (space) that contains a Ryokan for visiting artists, Chashitsu for Tea Ceremony, and a Gallery that highlights Japanese crafts and Arts. He has worked with J-Collabo on various fund raisers including last year’s Geisha Kikuno’s VIP reception at his space. He travels to Japan at least twice a year to visit artists, attend film festivals, and provide assistance to Tohoku area.

KAZUKO ISHIDA

ADVISORY BOARD

SHUICHI TANAKA

Shuichi worked in the beauty industry with Shiseido for 36 years, and spent over 18 years leading their global business development in the US and in Europe as CEO of the area headquarters. In Japan, his assignment was mainly on new product development for both Shiseido and IPSA. Through many years of experience in the international markets, he was always interested in intercultural collaboration between Japan and other countries. His current focus is on supporting young entrepreneurs in Japan and the U.S., whose work creates new interpretation of Japanese culture which can be accepted globally as a new universal culture.

ISAO TSUJIMOTO

Isao Tsujimoto has just presented his first and successful exhibition project “Voices from Japan” in New York City in the summer of 2012, as founder of Studio for Cultural Exchange,. After completed his distinguished career at the Japan Foundation, which included two directorships in NY (2006-2011) and LA (1996-2000), Isao went on to open the “Studio” in Tokyo, his native city, in the spring 2011. Soon he initiated the project of Voices from Japan that shares the heart of Japanese people since the disasters in March 2011. With his extensive network both in Japan and the United States, Isao continues his effort to inspire people by bringing voices and by connecting people in the world.

NOZOMI TERAO

Founder and Executive Director of HappyDoll, Inc., a nonprofit organization connecting children through the making and exchanging of unique and fun dolls. In 2001, she became Founder and Director of MSTERIO, a summer camp in Japan. She is also a team member of Keio University Hospital’s “Kokoro no Care” project in Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. She is a board member of Midori & Friends, Princeton in Asia, and Find Your Voice, and Co-chair of Friends of Children and Youth Programs at Japan Society. Nozomi was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, working in various capacities for 18 years. She has also worked at the American Embassy in Tokyo, Fuji Television, and Itochu International. Nozomi resides in NY.
http://www.msterio.com
http://www.happydoll.org

Kei Hirano has collaborated with designers, artists, schools and design centers all over the world and promoted projects with concept of “Art in Life” and has been involved in a lot of projects of new lifestyle creation cooperating and collaborating with producers of products, retailers and designers, and developed new brands and product lines based on strategic marketing.

Kei Hirano