Honorary Experts

The globalization definitely increase international dispute with distant country. Avoiding risk and to keep safe an important personal for company or country is really important issue as well as saving cost and time to move for dispute resolution. ODR should be more used on a situation broadband infrastructure are developed.

[Employment and concurrently serve]
- Operating Officer and General manager (concurrently serve as) TradeSafe, Inc. (Trust Mark Provider) May 2008 - November 2008 (7 months) & April 2012 - Present
- Senior Researcher (concurrently serve as) EC Network (Online ADR provider and researching) April 2009 - Present (1 year and 11months)
- Board of Director Link Manage Corp. ASP service and support for E-commerce industry September 2004 – March 2008 (3 years 7 months)
- Division manager (Marketing and business development) Nippon SystemWare Corp. Public Company Information Technology and Services industry April 1981 - March 2008 (27 years)

[Experiences]
I have been serving for Business Development in Israel during 1996-2004 as a Division manager, Multimedia business division, to researching and developing business relations with several companies, in NSW. The Achievements were successions to penetrate and implement products and technologies into Japanese market, such as video conferencing system, multi-media database, and designing software, simulation software. When NSW invested to Link Manage Corp, E-commerce platform provider, I was nominated as a board of director for Business Planning, Financing management.

When NSW decided to merge the company, I resigned to establish an own company. After establishing ODR Room Network, I am serving in mainly research and evangelistic part for Online Dispute Resolution. In 2008, as a researcher of EC Network, I was acting for Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) for learning foreign situation, and attend ERIA (Economic Research Institute for Asia and East Asia) project until 2009, contributing to drive a pilot project named “ICA-Net” which is the complaint handling platform for cross boarder dispute on e-commerce. When Japanese government established Consumer Affairs Agency (CAA) in 2009, cross border dispute for consumer was succeeded from METI to CAA. CAA organized Cross border Consumer center Japan (CCJ) and ODR Room Network has been joining as one of secretariats.

“ODR” is not so mature yet. Some conferences have been held around the world. “United Nation ODR Forum” has been held since 2003. I have attended the forum in 2008 in Canada, and I had a chance to introduce the “ICA-Net” in Israel in 2009. While EU launched “ECC-Net” for cross boarder complaint handling in EU, though “ICA-Net” is a pilot but it showed efficiency, US proposed “OAS-ODR” are approved as working group in UNCITRAL. I participated the first preliminary conference in Vancouver in 2010 to introduce “ICA-Net” experience again. Also I have been participating in several international activities, such as “ATA annual meeting in Taipei, 2008”, “ATA meeting in Singapore, 2009”, “ATA annual meeting in Tokyo, 2010” as a facilitator, “Visiting Massachusetts-Bar-Association in 2008”.

[Education]
Rikkyo University (St. Paul’s University, Japan), Economics 1977 - 1981
Hosei University, Law 2012 - Present

[Other information]
TradeSafe Corp., established in 2006 and joined ATA in 2007, has been contributing aggressively for the cooperation. In 2009 & 2010, TradeSafe served as Chair country and had achieved the expansion of ATA to WTA (World Trustmark Alliance).

Link Manage Corp., provided ASP service for e-commerce business, named "CREOSS" from 1997 to 2008. Link Manage had got fund from Nippon Systemware (NSW) and I was nominated as a Director for the company from NSW. The company was merged into NSW in 2008.

Nippon Systemware (NSW) has established since 1966. Responding to the demands of the times, NSW has expanded its business from software development to device development, system integration services, and cloud services that principally focus on data center services.