Motoatsu Sakurai

Who is Motoatsu Sakurai?

Motoatsu Sakurai is a Japanese businessman, a corporate executive in the private and public sectors, a diplomat, and President of the Japan Society in New York.

After graduating from Tokyo University Faculty of Law in 1968, he entered Mitsubishi Corporation. During the course of his early work at MC, he received an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France in May 1976. In the late 1970s, he spent four years with the World Bank and its affiliate, the International Finance Corporation, in Washington, D.C., working with Francophone countries in Africa.