Ms. Chitose Arai

Ms. Chitose Arai

Chairperson
ICA-AP Women Committee

Ms. Chitose Arai is the Vice President of the Japanese Consumers’ Cooperative Union (JCCU), which is a national federation of consumer cooperatives with 30 million individual members. She also serves as the President of Coop Mirai, the largest consumer co-op in Japan. She was a board member of Saitama Coop from 2005 to 2013. In 2013 when Saitama Coop merged with Coop Tokyo and Chiba Coop to become Coop Mirai, she was elected as a board member of Coop Mirai. At the ICA level, she served as the Vice President of the ICA-AP and the Acting Chairperson of the ICA-AP Women’s Committee.