B.A., Chuo University (law), 1986; Master of Law., Chuo University (civil law), 1989; Completion of Doctor Course, Tokyo Metropolitan University (law),1992

PROFESSER OF LAW, Meijigakuin University, 2004-present
Visiting Scholar at University of California , Berkeley , Boalt Hall School of Law, 2006-present
Director for the course of legal studies at Faculty of Law, 2004- 2006

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Associate Professor of Law, 1999-2004
ASSOCIATE PROFESSER OF LAW, Surugadai Universty, 1998-1999
Lecturer of Law, 1996-1998
RESEARCH FELLOW OF LAW, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1992-1996

Member , Japan Private Law Society.
Member , Japan Center for Human Environmental Problems
Member , Japan Traffic Law Society
Member, Japanese Society of Compensation Science
Member , Japan Land and Environment Institute
Member of Board of directors, 1998-present

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Member, Society for the Study of Liabilities for Traffic Accidents under Driving Support System (Road New Industry Development Organization), 2002-2003
Member, Committee on Legal System to Accelerate Environmental Protection Activities (Ministry of the Environment), 2002-2003
Member, Society for Human Environment (Ministry of Environment), 2001-2005
Member, Committee on Consumer Transaction Problems (Fair Trade Commission), 2001-2002
Member, Road Management Committee (Road Environment Institute), 1995-2000, 2003-2004
Member, Society for the Study of Actual Conditions and Systems for Conservation of Historic Inheritances ( Japan National Trust), 1994-1999.
Member, Civil Law Forum 21, 1996-1998.
Member, Society for the Study of Environment and Finance (Trust 60), 1992-1994.

ARTICLES =======================================================

On the Case of Municipality's Liability for a Breach of an Agreement about a Substitute Land ,265 Hanrei Chihoujichi 112(2005).

Road-Manager's Liability for Traffic Accidents caused by Obstacles on Roads, 34 Koustujiko Minji Saibanreisyu 312(2004).

On the Case of an Injunction Based on rights of common of woods(Iriai) against an Construction of an Refuse Incinerator, 253 Hanrei Chihoujichi 113(2004).

Kumamoto Minamata Disease First Defendant Group Case(Negligence at a Mercury Water Pollution Case), Kankyohou Hanrei Hyakusen(171 Bessastu Jurist 52) (2004).

On the Case of policeman's falsification of a report, 237 Hanrei Chihoujichi 105(2003)

On Application of Automobile Liability Act § 3 to Death Caused by Carbon Monoxide in a Car at Garage, 33 Koustujiko Minji Saibanreisyu 372 (2003)***

The Theory of “Limit of Forbearance” in Air Pollution Cases,43-1 Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. Journal of Law and Politics 269(2002)

Loss of Income of a Person Who was Injured by a Traffic Accident and Dead by latent other causes (After the Judgment of Supreme Court on April 25 1996), 1088 Hanrei Times 26 (2002).

On the Case of Defamation to Municipality ( Jyoetsu City v. Tokyo Broadcast System), 228 Hanrei Chihoujichi 116 (2002)**

On the Case of University's Liability for Defamation by students on the University Webpage (Tokyo Metropolitan University Case), 210 Hanrei Chihoujichi 91 (2001)**

Measure of Damages in connection with the First Accident and Second, Traffic Accident Hanrei Hyakusen(152 Bessastu Jurist 102)(1999)

Liability of a Guarantor of Tenancy form year to year, 48 Japanese Journal of Real Estate Sciences 38 (1998)

Defect of Road Management at Heavy Rain and Strom, 11-2 Surugadai University Law Review 283(1998)

Participation of Neighborhood in a Clean-up Procedure of Contaminated Land (Teshima Toxic Waste Case and Brownfields Initiatives in U.S.A. ), 11-1 Surugadai University Law Review 283(1998)

Scope of Liability of Each Tortfeasor at Concurrence of Traffic Accidents and Joint Tort, 27 Koustujiko Minji Saibanreisyu***390(1997)

Public Participation in Environmental Protection (National Trust for Historic Preservation in U.S.A. ), 43 Japanese Journal of Real Estate Sciences 32 (1997)

Loss of Income of a Person Who was Injured by a Traffic Accident and drowning later (On the Kaitori Case Judgment of Supreme Court on April 25 1996), 923 Hanrei Times 63 (1997).

Scope of Liability in a Medical Malpractice Concurrent with a Traffic Accident, Medical Malpractice Hanrei Hyakusen(140 Bessastu Jurist 64)(1996)

Analysis of Environmental Cases (Air Pollution), 23 Environmental Law Journal 5 (1996)

Duty of Sellers to disclose contamination and Duty of Purchaser to Investigate Contamination in Real Estate Transaction under CERCLA and States' Acts in U.S.A. , 36-1 Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. Journal of Law and Politics 91 (1995)

Joint and Several Liability in Kawasaki Air Pollution Case, 859 Hanrei Times 47 (1994).

On the Case of an Injunction based on the right of publicity, 118 Hanrei Chihoujichi 40 (1994)**

Loss of Income of a Person Who was Injured by a Traffic Accident and drowning later (On the Kaitori Case Judgments of District Court of Tokyo and High Court of Tokyo), 820 Hanrei Times 47 (1993)..

On the Case of Allergic Death at School Lunch, 105 Hanrei Chihoujichi 80 (1993)**

On the Case of a Vibration of Construction, 92 Hanrei Chihoujichi 80 (1992)**

On the Case of a False Consumer Credit Information, 44-3 Houritsunohiroba( Legal Square )73 (1991)

Law of Misrepresentation around Advertisement, 31-2 Tokyo Metropolitan Univ. Journal of Law and Politics 375 (1990)

On the Case of Consumer Credit Information, 43-11 Houritsunohiroba( Legal Square )73 (1990)

BOOK CHAPTERS ==================================================

Tokyo Air Pollution Case(District Court of Tokyo),p223 in The Present Situation and Prospects for Environmental Law, Environmental Cases and Local Authorities vol.2, edited by JAPAN CENTER OF HUMAN ENVIRONMENT(2003)

Proportional Remedy(Proportional Causation) in Nuisance or Other Environmental Cases, p258 in Proportional Recovery and Fair Rule, edited by Y.NOMURA (2002).

Tenancy for years, p239 in New Lectures on Landlord and Tenancy vol.3, edited by T. INABA(1999)

School Accidents by Pupils, at187 in Modern Law of Judicial Proceeding vol.9 edited by T. SHIOZAKI(1999).

A Survey of National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, at14 in Conservation of Historic Heritage, edited by I. KATO & Y. NOUMURA (1997)

Duty of Disclosure in Contaminated Land Transaction, p60 in Environment and Finance at its Legal Side, edited by Y.NOMURA (1997)

OTHER WORKS ======================================================

Concise Law Dictionary (Sanseido), wrote some items (2003).

Environmental Law Dictionary (Yuhikaku), wrote some items (2002).

Dictionary of Information Science (Koubundo), wrote some items (2002).

Consumer Law, in Gakkai Kaiko*, 71-13 Houritsu Jihou 133 (1999) with Tsuneo Matsumoto, Hideyuki Shiggyo and Kumiko Nobusawa

Consumer Law, in Gakkai Kaiko, 70-13 Houritsu Jihou 123 (1998) with Tsuneo Matsumoto, Hideyuki Shiggyo and Kumiko Nobusawa

Consumer Law, in Gakkai Kaiko, 69-13 Houritsu Jihou 123 (1997) with Tsuneo Matsumoto, Hideyuki Shiggyo and Kumiko Nobusawa

* Looking Back Academic Achievements That Year