Professional experience

1966 Awarded Bachelor of Law at the Kyoto University Law School
1969 Admitted to the Osaka Bar Association
1973 Awarded LL.M. at Harvard Law School
1979 Admitted to the Japan Patent Bar Association
2003- Executive Director of Japan Association of Arbitrators

Publications, etc.

1. INTELECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS 1989, Seirin Shoin (Co-authorship)
2. COPING STRATEGIES FOR THE CASES IN WHICH A JAPANESE COMPANY GETS INVOLVED IN A U.S. PATENT LAWSUIT(No. 55-6 Intellectual Property Management 2005)
3. 1991 Arbitrator - ICC International Arbitration Case
4. 2004 Arbitrator - Arbitration case at Japan Commercial Arbitration Association
5. 1999- Lecturer - Intellectual Property Lecture, “Issues on US Patent Infringement Litigation” at the Japan Intellectual Property Association

Personality

As a lawyer, I have interacted with quite a great number of lawyers all over the world through my activities as a council member of the International Bar Association and a chairman of “Foreign Lawyer and International Legal Practice Committee” of the Japan Federation of Bar Associations as well as the Executive Director of the Japan Association of Arbitrators. Furthermore, I have experience in solving a great deal of international and domestic disputes as an arbitrator of the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association and a mediator for the Public Interest Incorporated Associations Unified Disputes Resolution Center.