President – Core S. Ltd.
Satoko Yahata is the president of Core S Ltd., a Tokyo-based consulting firm that specializes in planning international business in art, food, culture, fashion and travel, as well as a media producer.
She is an ambassador for the Japan Tourism Agency, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and a committee member of METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) Luxury Travel Market,The Real Japan Ishikawa Project Committee, Special Advisor.
Ms. Yahata is official member of the Japan Association of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is a board member of Metropolitan Opera.
She is also Officier (officer) of the Ordre des Coteaux de Champagne and International Council for Museum Berggruen Berlin.
Ms. Yahata is a graduate of Seishin Joshi Gakuin (Sacred Heart College in Tokyo) and has studied at Le Menil in Switzerland and Grenoble University in France.
She is a member of international committee of Bal des Etoiles, Bal de l’Ete in France and a member of the Japan Hong Kong society. Also the Japan Travel Writer’s Organization and Art council of Tokyu Bunkamura in Japan.