About Us

Yumiko & Eric Lee, founders of Japan hiWays

Born in fukuoka, Yumiko obtained bachelor of arts and master of arts in language learning

Yumiko has many years of experience in tutoring japanese in universities, colleges and schools. She is also a professional simultaneous interpreter

Japan hiWays unique combination of language learning, financial consultancy and wealth management builds strong platform for business networking

Our Contacts

Yumiko Lee, Managing Director
Tel: (65) 6462-4735

Eric Lee, Finance Director
Tel: (65)-94883555

J.Highways Pte. Ltd
6 Pandan Valley, Poinsettia Towers #09-606 Singapore 597630
Fax : (65) 6462-4735

For more informatioin, please send in your Request For Information or Request For Partnership. We look forward to working with you.

About Yumiko Lee

Yumiko Lee was born in Fukuoka, Japan, where she began her quest in language learning at the age of 12. At high school she was President of the English Speaking Club. She went on to major in English at university, and as freshman, was selected as exchange student to a college in New York where she majored in Speech and Communication. She was often invited to schools to perform Japanese cultural items such as dance and song, and also got a role as a Polynesian girl in a school musical "South Pacific". It was a litte like Broadway-production and she learned to memorize, speak, sing and dance in French.

Upon her return to Japan, Yumiko completed her Bachelor of Arts in English. She furthered her study in San Diego, California, and graduated with Master of Arts in Asian Studies, while tutoring Japanese as teaching assistant in the university.

Yumiko came to Singapore in 1983 and taught Japanese at various levels to students and working adults. Yumiko is currently teaching at the Center for Language Studies, National University of Singapore (NUS) and other classes on her own. Her experience in teaching Japanese spans over 25 years at the following positions:

• Lecturer at Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore
• Part-time tutor at Singapore Polytechnic
• Part-time tutor at Nan Yang Girl’s High School
• Part-time tutor at Singapore American School

Yumiko was also trained under SIMUL International, Tokyo, as a professional simultaneous interpreter. Besides being a Japanese teacher, she also held the following professional positions:

• Oversea reporter for NHK radio program, “World Network”, presenting regular updates on Singapore current affairs
• Orientation trainer in Japanese language and culture to participants who were sent to Japan under the 21 Century-Japan Asean Friendship Program, sponsored by the Japanese government
• Japanese trainer on Japanese language and culture at multinational companies and Singapore Statutory Boards

About Eric Lee

Born in Singapore, with both parents as immigrants from China, Eric had always been fascinated by Japan since young. After 12 years of study in a mission school at St. Andrew’s and a two and half years of National Service as Infantry Officer, Eric graduated at the then University of Singapore in Economics & Statistics (Hons). His first career was in Information Technology with a 2 years training stint as software engineer in multi-national giant NEC in Tokyo. This enabled him to be immersed in the language, culture, life and work of Japan, It was during an era when Japan was Number one as an economic and technology powerhouse. The experience left a deeper influence and feeling in him for the Japanese people. It was unforgettable as he also met Yumiko in Tokyo in August 1981. They were married in 2 January 1984 in Singapore.

Eric continued his career at NEC in Singapore, having experienced the early days of computerisation with huge mainframe systems, then the powerful mini-computers, and the advent of PCs , desktop computing and internet dot.com. Today, Eric is a Financial Consultant with IPP Financial Advisers, one of the largest independently-owned FA firm in Singapore and the region. Having spent over 25 years in the rigours of IT : process, logic and systems analysis, he now returns to his first discipline in Economics & Statistics to work with his clients in Wealth Management.

Together, Eric and Yumiko’s passion for Japan grew and this led to their founding of J.Highways with a vision to building highways into Japan, and from Japan to other parts of Asia and the world. The highways will facilitate communication and exchanges of business, training, leadership and youth challenges.