NATIONAL GRADUATE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES

KOMATSU, Masayuki

- Position:
  Professor
- Degree:
  Master of Business Administration, Yale University
  Ph.D. (Agriculture), University of Tokyo
Current Research Interests:
Adapted Change for Laws and Regulation and Leadership
Reform of Japanfs Fisheries and Laws and Regulation
Management of marine living resources and International negotiation
Restoration of Tokyo Bay

Professional Career:

1977	Entered the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
1984	Yale University Master of Business Administration (MBA)
1988-1991	First secretary at the Japanese Embassy in Italy
2000(-2002)	Councillor of Fisheries Agency
2001(-2003)	Chairman of the Committee on Fisheries of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
2002(-2005)	Director of the Fishing Environment and Fishery Resource Division
2004	Ph.D. Agriculture (Tokyo University)
2005-2007	Executive Director, Marine Fisheries Research and Development Center (JAMARC), the Fisheries Research Agency
2008	Professor of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

Selected publications:
You can eat whales (Takarajima Shinsho) 2000
Truth behind the whaling dispute (Chikyusha) 2001 ed.
Whales and Japanese (Seishun Shinsho) 2002
International Tuna Court Trial (Iwanami Shinsho) 2002
Whales--history and culture (Goma Shobo) 2005
Easy-to-understand whaling controversy (Seizando) 2005
Whales--history and culture (Goma Shobo) 2005
Fishes we cannot eat in the future(Gentosha) 2007
Enriched Sea Tokyo Bay" (Yuzankaku) 2007
Handing down songs from parents to children (Sankei Shimbun publication) in joint work 2007
History and culture sight-seeing Japanese and whale (Goma Shobo) 2007
Fisheries of Japan (Popurasha) (the supervision) 2008
Fish food specialist official approval third grade" (Chuukeishuppan) 2008,
The Three Great Maters of Edo-Mae:Sushi,Tempura and Unagi (Chuukeishuppan) (the supervision) 2009
Tsuneichi Miyamoto and whale (Yuzankaku) 2009
Negotiation Power to turn the Table (Chuukeishuppan) 2009
Invitation to Resources Economics" (Minerva Publishing) in joint work 2010
The World Whale War (PHP) 2010
The day Disappear of Fishes on the Japanese Table (Nikkei Shuppan Sha) 2010
Tokyo Bay revival plan (Yuzankaku) 2010
The Truth Behind the Whaling Dispute (ICR) 2002; co-author
Japanese and the whaling (ICR) 2003; co-author
The History and Science of Whales (The Japan Times) 2004; co-author
Discovering Whales Around Tokyo Bay (The Japan Times) 2005; co-author
A lot of others authors

Nikkei Shimbun [Economy classroom], Asahi Shimbun "People" "Obejectionh gThe pressh gKouronh, Mainichi Shimbun hTouronh

Featuring NHK: Shitenronten, Close-up Gendai, TBS:Mino-Monta Asa-Zuba, NTV: Sekaiichi Uketaijugyo, TV Asahi: Hodo Station, Fuji TV: Hodo 2001, TBS Radio:Dig

"World whale war" wins the highest award (a piece of from 77 works) of the international understanding promotion good book commendation of the international language culture promotion foundation in October, 2010
Social Contributions:
The International Whaling Commission Substitution of Japanese Representative

Participate in southern bluefin tuna international law of the sea trials and win the case. (The first international trial after the World War II)

Chairperson of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) fisheries Committee

Prime minister appointment committee in The Liberal Democratic Party and in The Democratic Party (Laws and Regulation reform)
Other notable achievements:
Selected as one of World 50 people of the Human record by the Britannica international yearbook (2003)

Selected as one of 100 Japanese Respected by the Newsweek Japan (2005)
e-mail: komatsu