Nakamoto Chizu

Head of Ricci Everyday Co., Ltd. Born in Shizuoka in 1984. After earning her degree from Hitotsubashi University, she worked for a Japanese bank in corporate sales. Later, she joined an NGO, moving to Uganda’s capital, Kampala. Together with women she met in Uganda and her mother in Japan, she founded Ricci Everyday to design, manufacture, and market apparel, bags, and interior accessories featuring bold African prints. The company was incorporated in Japan in 2015, establishing a company in Uganda and a store in Kampala the following year. In November 2016, she won the Grand Prize at the first Japan Africa Entrepreneurship Support Initiative. Since 2021, she has been a member of the NHK International Broadcasting Program Council.