Eriko Arakawa Eriko Arakawa Arakawa was born in Nerima, Tokyo on 30 October 1979. In 1997, she was high school student, she joined L.League club Yomiuri-Seiyu Beleza (later "Nippon TV Beleza"). she was elected Best Eleven in 2003 and 2004. In the September 2008 WPS International Draft, she was drafted by FC Gold Pride in the top level US based Women's Professional Soccer league. In her first appearance for FC Gold Pride, Arakawa scored the club's first ever goal against Boston Breakers leading to a 2–1 victory. It would turn out to be her only goal of the season. Following the end
Alan Arakawa Alan Arakawa Alan M. Arakawa (born 1951) is an American politician who is the 7th Mayor of the County of Maui in Hawaii. He previously served as the 5th Maui mayor from 2002 to 2006. Arakawa graduated from Maui High School and attended the University of Hawaii at Manoa as a business major. He then entered civil service in 1984 as a wastewater plant worker for Maui County. He rose to the post of supervisor in the wastewater division of the Department of Public Works and was both a United Public Workers Chief Steward and a Hawai'i Government Employees Association