Teruko Iwanaga

Teruko Iwanaga spent four and a half years of her childhood in the UK and fell in love with the country. After graduating from the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo, she returned to the UK and helped to set up Rikkyo School in England, the first ever school for Japanese children in Europe.

 

In 1973, she joined HTS Management Holdings Limited and started the Euro-Japanese Exchange Foundation (now EJEF), a British organisation teaching English and Japanese languages to ministry officials and business people.

 

In 1985 Teruko was appointed as Appeal Organiser for the British Museum Japanese Gallery Appeal and, with the help of many Japanese industrialists, she succeeded in raising £5 million enabling the Japanese Gallery to open in 1990. She was awarded the OBE for this achievement.

 

She has been a board member of CLS since 2001 and thoroughly enjoys mixing with excellent, inspiring and enthusiastic CLS players. She is eagerly awaiting a chance for CLS to make its début in Japan.