Executive director and chief of the secretariat of the Association of Copyright for Computer Software (ACCS)

Head of Culture and Sports Section in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and former chief of the Copyright Division in the Agency for Cultural Affairs.

Assistant section head of the Intellectual Property Strategy Office in the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and graduate of Tokyo University. He served in the Japanese Embassy in Malaysia and in the Agency of National Resources and Energy.

Former Prime Minister, member of the House of Representatives, and JVCA honorary adviser.

Operating director of the General Affairs Department in Shogakukan; secretary of the Japan Magazine Association's society for the study of Media Law.

Managing director and professor emeritus at Aoyama Gakuin University, chairman of the Japan Reprographic Rights Center, and director of Nippon Television Program Council.

Professor of law school at Nippon University, patent attorney, and former adviser of Lotte, Toshiba and NEC.

Ehime governor, former chief of copyright in the Agency for Culture Affairs, former chief secretary in the Ministry of Education, and former chairman of the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers (JASRAC).