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President, Japanese Consumers\u2019 Co-operative Union (JCCU), Japan<\/p>\n
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Ms. Chitose Arai is the Chairperson of ICA-AP Committee on Women and member of the ICA-AP Regional Board. She has been involved in the cooperative movement of Japan for more than 30 years. Currently, she serves as the President of the Japanese Consumers\u2019 Co-operative Union (JCCU), a national federation of consumer cooperatives with more than 30 million individual members. She is also the Former President of Co-op Mirai, the largest consumer cooperative in Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column_inner][\/et_pb_row_inner][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ms. Chitose AraiPresident, Japanese Consumers\u2019 Co-operative Union (JCCU), JapanMs. Chitose Arai is the Chairperson of ICA-AP Committee on Women and member of the ICA-AP Regional Board. She has been involved in the cooperative movement of Japan for more than 30 years. Currently, she serves as the President of the Japanese Consumers\u2019 Co-operative Union (JCCU), a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1642","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1642\/revisions\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaap.coop\/RA2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}