study in Japanese continue at these colleges in the Los Angeles Community College District. Fujimoto served as president at Los Angeles Mission College for seven years until 1996. From 2002 to 2003, he served as interim superintendent-president of Imperial Valley College in Imperial County, California. While designing the Japanese language curriculum and humanities curriculum, Fujimoto visited various universities as well as the Ministry of Education in Japan. For 30 years, he served as advisor to Kobe Women's University in Kobe, Japan and also taught at the Language Institute of Japan in Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan. For 12 years from 1983 to 1995, Fujimoto chaired the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Buddhist Studies, a graduate seminary affiliated with the Berkeley, California-based Graduate Theological Union. Since 1986, Fujimoto has been connected with the Japanese Institute of Sawtelle in Sawtelle, Los Angeles. He orchestrated the merger of the Institute and its language school, Sawtelle Gakuin, and in 2000 became its founding chairman and president, a position that he held until 2005 when he chaired the 80th anniversary of the Institute and Gakuin. Today, he serves as senior advisor to the Institute and Gakuin. In 2007, he authored the book Sawtelle: West Los Angeles JapanTown, a pictorial history of the Sawtelle, Los Angeles Japantown. Honors Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, 2011. Notes External links Recipients of Fall 2011 Decorations Fujimoto and Webb Receive Fall Decorations at Rafu Shimpo A Teacher for Intellectual Wellness – Dr. Jack Fujimoto 1928 births Living people People from National City, California Japanese-American internees American military personnel of Japanese descent American academics of Japanese descent Heads of universities and colleges in the United States UCLA Anderson School of Management alumni Pasadena City College alumni Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class