Members

President: Hiromi Hagiwara

Representative director and CEO, 3A Corporation

Workplace strategist

First-class building operation and management engineer

Real estate notary

Asset retirement obligation assessor

He has over 600 experiences for relocation and consolidation of offices and stores/shops as a person in charge. He currently engages as a technical commissioner for major consumer financing companies and banks. As a project manager, he is the No. 1 expert in Japan in the field of proper assessment of building restoration and AB constructions for over 600 companies. He provides companies legal advice on construction defects, security deposits, and security deposit return problems and gives lectures on IFRS asset retirement obligations and environmental liabilities at conferences sponsored by major auditing firms also on building restoration sponsored by Nikkei BP.

Attorney at Law: Kei Noma

Representative Attorney at Law, Tokyo Yamate Law Office

Labor and Social Insurance Attorney

Graduated from Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo

Registered as a lawyer with the Tokyo Bar Association (Registration No. 23477) in 1994

Registered as a labor and social security attorney (registration number: 13990063) in 1999

Opened Noma Law & Labor Office in 1999

Established Tokyo Yamate Law Office (Representative Attorney) in 2013

He has over 100 cases in solving construction and real estate issues, including pre-dispute resolution of building restoration, lawsuits for defective construction work, and lawsuits for refund of security deposits and guarantee money.

Director: Tomoyuki Ogawa

OGAWA LIFE DESIGN Co.

First-class architect

Managing architect

Member of Tokyo Association of Architectural Firm

Member of Tokyo Association of Architects & Building Engineers

Member of Architectural Institute of Japan

With more than 30 year-career in architectural design and supervision, he is good at coordinating clients and contractors in planning, designing, and supervising for both public and private sectors such as office buildings, social welfare facilities, environment-related facilities, commercial facilities, and residences. He also provides consulting services for proper assessment of building restoration, large-scale repair planning and design, and renovation design for seismic diagnosis and reinforcement. He is an architectural expert in proper assessment of asset retirement obligations and building restoration.

Director: Takeshi Hotta

Executive officer, 3A Corporation

Real estate notary

Commercial facility consultant (Planning and Management)

Facility management

He has been involved in the planning, attraction of enterprises, design, and construction of many commercial facilities, and has engaged in the field of commercial facility consulting, real estate, and construction with the motto of "providing services that suit your every need“. He is an expert in the operation of "interior monitoring" for commercial facilities and rental properties. With his extensive experience in asset classification (construction classification) from a facility side, he is currently well versed in building restoration and B construction and has accomplished many cases as a consultant.

Authorized assessor for building restoration and B construction
Takahito Yamada

He has solved a wide range of restoration problems from over 1653 sqm building to small and medium sized offices, stores/shops, and residences.

Authorized assessor for building restoration and B construction
Hiroyuki Nishinosono

He works as a cost manager at an interior design company and engages in construction and interior decoration work at a retail store.

In charge of opening new stores at a chain restaurant.

Authorized assessor for restoration and B construction
Shoichi Nagasaka

He has solved a wide range of restoration problems from over 1653 sqm building to small and medium sized offices, stores/shops, and residences.

He has been involved in system design, development, maintenance, and operation of business and mission-critical systems for local governments, municipalities, and universities at a systems integration company.

Director, Public relations: Kayoko Sunakawa

She handles with internal newsletters, company brochures, and presentation materials as well as coordinating internal events.

Also, her role is a well-informed person who disseminates management principles and visions, shares information about what is happening in society, and reports on the contents of the company's media.

Prof. Naohiko Ijiri

Former Dean, Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University

He specializes in international economics. After working at Shizuoka Eiwa Gakuin University, he joined the College of Economics at Nihon University in 2003. He also worked as a consultant for the OECD and UNCTAD.

He holds a B.A. in Economics from Nihon University and a Master of Science (MSc) from the University of Nottingham, UK.

In 2019, he founded the nonprofit organization Research Institute for Impediments to Trade (RIIT), where he serves as president and director.

Prof. Yugun Liu

Professor, College of Economics, and Graduate school of integrated social and information sciences, Nihon University

He was born in Shanghai, China. He studied at Shanghai University of Foreign Languages during his junior and senior high school and came to Japan in 1990.

He graduated from the College of Economics, Nihon University with BA in Economics, and the Graduate school of Economics, Nihon University with Ph.D. in Economics.

His areas of expertise are international economics and development economics. After working at Nihon University Distance Learning Division from 2003, he started working at the College of Economics in 2018.

Director, the Japanese Society for Global Social and Cultural Studies

Director, Non-profit organization Research Institute for Impediments to Trade (RIIT)

Consultant for store/restaurant business revitalization
Junko Mizuno

English translator/manager

After graduating from Washington State University in the U.S. with a degree in business administration, she worked as a manager in restaurants and hotels while doing marketing.

In recognition of her achievements, she was assigned as the person in charge of launching a new restaurant in New York.

After returning to Japan, she took advantage of her experience to participate in large-scale events as an international event staff.

Currently, as an expert in international projects, she focuses on supporting artists and people who want to develop their talents overseas.

Secretariat: Atsuko Nomura

She assists building restorations and B construction advisors and takes care of general office work for the association.