Professor of Law - Niigata University Graduate School of Modern Society and Culture, Faculty of Law
Chairman - Japan Institute of Law and Information Systems (JILIS)
Senior Visiting Scientist for the AI Utilization in Society and Legal System Team - RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project
Born in Iwate Prefecture in 1962, Masatomo completed his Research Doctoral Course and Master’s degree at the Chuo University Graduate School of Law, Tokyo. And completed a Doctoral Program for Informatics at the Institute of Information Security, Tokyo. After working with Nifty Corporation*1, He became a professor at Niigata University in 2005 and concurrently serving as Chairman of the Institute for Law and Information Systems (JILIS) since 2016.*2 He joined RIKEN in 2017*3. He was also involved in the amendment of the Japanese Personal Information Protection Act, the creation of the “My Number” system, the “Privacy Mark” system and the Japanese Industrial Standard “JIS Q 15001” in Japan. In 2016 He was appointed as a Director of “the Association of Law and Information Systems”, “Journal of Law and Information System" Editorial Board. In 2020, he began working as a Senior Visiting Scientist for the AI Utilization in Society and Legal System Team at the RIKEN Center for Integrated Research on Innovative Intelligence.
*1 Nifty Corporation was then a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Limited, the largest Internet service provider in Japan.
*2 Founded in 2016, JILIS conducts research on law and information systems and provides policy recommendations.
*3 Principal investigator, Leader for the Information Law Team (2017/4-2020/3) at the RIKEN.
Senior Researcher
Saiful AZIZ, Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
N. KATO, LL.M.
Researcher (Graduate student Doctoral course）
Y. KIM, LL.M.
Assistant (PA)
A. ROPPONGI
Secretary
e-mail: jilis(at)jilis.org