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¶ … earned a Bachelor's degree in economics from Keio University in Japan. During her study, she was able to attend Cambridge University and a short-term scholar, and again focused on Economics there, in addition to a stint at Leicester University. After completing her studies, she accepted a position at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitusbishi UFJ in April 2004.

In her role as relationship manager, she was in charge of loan products, depoists and forex/commodity transactions, working for around 120 corporate clients, including the United Nations.

In June, 2007, she progressed to the position of manager of the Global Syndication Team in the Syndicated Finance Division. In this role she was responsible for planning the global syndicated loan business. This role was in support of the Global Head, who governed the syndication groups in the Americas, EMEA and Asia. In April 2009, she moved on again, to the cross-border syndicated loans division, where she held a role connecting Japanese investors with clients sucha s NextEra Energy, McDonalds, Heinz, Bunge and Scottish Southern Energy.

She advanced to her current role in October, 2011, joining the Power and Utilities Group at Union Bank, which is the second-largest commercial bank in California and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. In this capacity, she is currently working on project finance transactions in the North American energy sector.

Dear Oliver and Fiona

Thank you very much for the heartwarming letter for Easter.

I am so glad to hear from you. You seem very well and it sounds like you are enjoying your life journey!

First I want to tell you a bit about my career. I have worked for the Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi (BTMU) for almost 9 years. it's the largest bank in Japan, and its client base is made up of Japanese corporate clients, but is growing in terms of overseas corporate lending -- 30% and hopefully up to 50% growth in the near future. I am an experienced relationship manager doing loans, commodities and currency swaps for a group of around 120 companies for about four years prior to moving into syndication. I now work on enhancing cross-border syndicated loans, which means I bring Japanese customers to British and American companies. In 2008, BTMU acquired Union Bank, which was headquartered in San Francisco, but has most of its offices in LA.

BTMU is trying to change the Union Bank a bit -- I was transferred to Union about 1 1/2 years ago to work in project finance. I provide laons mainly for natural gas fired generation plans and renwable energy plants.

This is a tough position for me, very challenging. it's a business dominated by white men and I'm the only one here from BTMU. But we are merging our business platform with Union's, so the role is going to be even more challenging going forward. Everything is quite political -- the Union people like to say that I am a rogue trader or a spy. But I am starting to love this group and these people, and I feel like I have to protect this group from BTMU sometimes if something unfair were to happen.