Kathleen Kimura, MBE

  • Kathleen Kimura, MBE
    Board Director
    Director of PR, Tokyo Express Co, Inc.

Kathleen Kimura, MBE, has worked for Tokyo Express Co., Inc, for over thirty years, and currently serves as its Vice President. Kathleen was first elected to the board in 1990. She served as President and Chairman of BABC Northern California from 2001-2008; and served on the BABC’S bi-lateral network’s Executive Committee and as the US Western Regional Representative from 2004-2019.

Kathleen also serves on the following boards: British Benevolent Society of California (past president) and Chairman of its Relief Committee; Co-Chair, SF-Osaka Sister City Association; Japan Society of Northern California (past president); California-Japan Sister Cities Network; Millbrae Sister Cities Commission; NORCAL Sister Cities International; Chair, Millbrae Japanese Culture Festival Committee; Legion of the SF Consular Corps (LSFCC) and member of its US Support Committee.  Affiliations include the Japan Society, London. Kathleen is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was awarded an MBE by Her Majesty the Queen in 2006. She was awarded the Japanese Foreign Minister’s Award in 2013; in 2014 she was chosen as Millbrae’s Woman of the Year, and also awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Rays by the Emperor of Japan.