Yas Fukuda has more than 20 years’ experience in investor and public relations and he leads CDR’s Tokyo office. His client experience includes Blackstone, JapanCor, MSCI, State Street, abrdn, Allianz Real Estate and Trip.com. Yas has strong Japanese language writing and editing skills, and oversees all local language content for our clients. He is also an experienced trainer and typically leads the media training sessions for our Tokyo-based clients. Before joining the consulting industry, Yas worked at Mizuho Securities and Toshiba Corporation specialising in corporate communications and investor relations, as well as spending time at Konica Minolta and Takeda Pharmaceutical.