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Homare Shimada

Japanese: President

Hi ! My name is Homare. I’m an Economics, Finance and Data Science student running for president!

Japan Society has been my second home this year. I've loved every person I’ve met through this society, and I would love to help run it next year!

Here’s a TLDR before I get into the details

  • Host more diverse events! (eg. mochi making event in New Years)
  • Run semi-regular Japanese Harp music lessons taught by me and my mum!
  • Make it more welcoming for non Japanese people to join
  • I have been Japan Society President for my high school (tripling the size in 2 years)
  • Overall, continue to grow and foster the Japan Society I love :)

Now onto the details…

Loving how the society has been run already, I had to think long and hard about how I could uniquely contribute to this committee.

Here are some of my ideas

  • Food (mochi making event in new years)
  • Music (both my mum and I are Japanese Harp Teachers and would love to host lessons/ host a concert for all Japanese music like Jsoc Band this year!)
  • Festivals (my big big dream is to host a London Uni Bonodori event)

This begs the question, is this truly feasible?Fret not, for here are my qualifications:

  • President of Japan society from high school. - I tripled the number of people in the society in 2 years,
  • Hosted numerous events, external talks and profitable events through other societies!

I hope I convinced you to vote for me :)