Toshio Watanabe, B.A.
Senior Consultant and Director, Asian Region
4-1-48, Hamatake, Chigasaki-City
Kanagawa Prefecture 253-0021 JAPAN
Ph:+81-0-467-84-3458
Email: twatanabe@mktechnology.com
4-1-48, Hamatake, Chigasaki-City
Kanagawa Prefecture 253-0021 JAPAN
Ph:+81-0-467-84-3458
Email: twatanabe@mktechnology.com
Toshio (Ted) Watanabe was General Manager of International Security Trade Controls in Mitsui & Co. Ltd. of Tokyo, where he had a distinguished thirty-year career. A graduate of Japan's International College of Commerce and Economics, he concentrated on International Marketing, and studied under the well-known Professor Minoru Hagiwara who also was an Honorary Research Associate in Harvard University's Economics Department. He is also a trade-controls adviser of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
After additional non-credit study as an exchange student at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, Ted Watanabe was selected as a member of the Japan-U.S. Student Conference, of which two former Japanese Prime Ministers have been members.
His career in Mitsui included extensive experience in managing cross-border projects and operations, and extensive knowledge of international-security trade controls. It also included nine years based in Mitsui London, plus five years based in Germany and Belgium, and two years in Hong Kong for Mitsui.
An experienced public speaker, Toshio Watanabe had been a finalist in the All-Japan English Speaking Contest, winning awards from leading Japanese publications. Also at Mitsui, he was a special trainee in an intensive one-year Chinese-language course in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
From 1997 to 2000, he was Associate Director of Mitsui Europe, and acted as Honorary Secretary of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in London. In 2001, he was Senior Coordinator in charge of corporate-wide overseas coordination in Western, Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, and from 2002 to 2004 he was General Manager of the International Security Trade Controls Division of Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
From 2003 to 2004, Toshio Watanabe chaired the Internal Compliance Program Subcommittee of the Center for Information on Security Trade Controls (CISTEC). In 2004, he also acted as chairman of the Security Trade Controls Committee of the Japan Foreign Trade Council Inc. (JFTC). Since 2005, he has been Co-Chair of the well-known "Global Trade Controls" conferences in Europe and Asia. He is a member of the new Japan Association of International Security and Trade, which is chaired by Professor Takehiko Yamamoto of Waseda University, whose other leading academic posts have included the University of Oxford, Harvard University: Kennedy School of Government and the University of Georgia's famed Center for International Trade and Security.
Ted Watanabe joined MK Technology in November 2005 from the Japan Chemical Exporters Association where he had been General Manager. He is responsible for MK Technology's operations in Asia, and he closely collaborates with its head office in Washington, DC.
Please return to our main page for more general information concerning our services.
After additional non-credit study as an exchange student at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, Ted Watanabe was selected as a member of the Japan-U.S. Student Conference, of which two former Japanese Prime Ministers have been members.
His career in Mitsui included extensive experience in managing cross-border projects and operations, and extensive knowledge of international-security trade controls. It also included nine years based in Mitsui London, plus five years based in Germany and Belgium, and two years in Hong Kong for Mitsui.
An experienced public speaker, Toshio Watanabe had been a finalist in the All-Japan English Speaking Contest, winning awards from leading Japanese publications. Also at Mitsui, he was a special trainee in an intensive one-year Chinese-language course in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
From 1997 to 2000, he was Associate Director of Mitsui Europe, and acted as Honorary Secretary of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in London. In 2001, he was Senior Coordinator in charge of corporate-wide overseas coordination in Western, Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, and from 2002 to 2004 he was General Manager of the International Security Trade Controls Division of Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
From 2003 to 2004, Toshio Watanabe chaired the Internal Compliance Program Subcommittee of the Center for Information on Security Trade Controls (CISTEC). In 2004, he also acted as chairman of the Security Trade Controls Committee of the Japan Foreign Trade Council Inc. (JFTC). Since 2005, he has been Co-Chair of the well-known "Global Trade Controls" conferences in Europe and Asia. He is a member of the new Japan Association of International Security and Trade, which is chaired by Professor Takehiko Yamamoto of Waseda University, whose other leading academic posts have included the University of Oxford, Harvard University: Kennedy School of Government and the University of Georgia's famed Center for International Trade and Security.
Ted Watanabe joined MK Technology in November 2005 from the Japan Chemical Exporters Association where he had been General Manager. He is responsible for MK Technology's operations in Asia, and he closely collaborates with its head office in Washington, DC.
Please return to our main page for more general information concerning our services.