Officers for Fiscal Year 2026

Chairperson
Hiroki Tanaka (Tokuyama Corporation)

Acting Chairperson
Masatsugu Morimitsu (Doshisha University)

Vice Chairperson
Taro Kinomoto (Oita University)

Advisors
Yasuhisa Maeda (Shizuoka University)
Masami Shibata (University of Yamanashi)
Hiroshi Inoue (Osaka Metropolitan University)
Yoshiharu Uchimoto (Kyoto University)

Auditors
Hisayoshi Nishii (Japan Soda Industry Association)
Shigenori Mitsushima (Yokohama National University)

Standing Committee Members
Masato Atobe (Yokohama National University)
Tomohiro Isogai (Daikin Industries, Ltd.)
Yuki Orikasa (Ritsumeikan University)
Akihiro Kato (De Nora Permelec Ltd.)
Takayuki Kaneko (AGC Inc.)
Yosuke Kikuchi (Kaneka Corporation)
Wataru Sugimoto (Shinshu University)
Yuji Sekiguchi (Asahi Kasei Corporation)
Yasuyuki Takamitsu (Tosoh Corporation)
Yoshinori Tanaka (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
Koichi Terada (Daisho Engineering Co., Ltd.)
Naoto Todoroki (Tohoku University)
Masaharu Nakayama (Yamaguchi University)
Kensaku Nagasawa (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)
Toshiyuki Nohira (Kyoto University)
Tsuyoshi Hamada (thyssenkrupp nucera Japan Ltd.)
Eiji Higuchi (Osaka Metropolitan University)
Koji Matsuoka (ENEOS Corporation)
Koji Yasuda (Kyoto University)

Secretary-General
Koichi Matsuzawa (Yokohama National University)