Past Officers & Honorary Members

Successive Presidents

1st President Genpachiro KONNO 1963-1972
2nd President Yasuhiko OISHI 1973-1982
3rd President Hirotada KOHNO 1983-1992
4th President Takao FUKUCHI 1993-1994
5th President Yoshio KIMURA 1995-1996
6th President Shogo KAWAKAMI 1997-1998
7th President Katsuya FUKUOKA 1999-2000
8th President Etsuo YAMAMURA 2001-2002
9th President Yasuhiro SAKAI 2003-2004
10th President Yoshinobu KUMATA 2005-2008
11th President Makoto TAWADA 2009-2010
12th President Yoshiro HIGANO 2011-2016
13th President Moriki HOSOE 2017-2018
14th President Shuetu TAKAHASHI 2019-2020
15th President Suminori TOKUNAGA 2021-2022
16th President Akio MATSUMOTO 2023-now

Successive Vice-Presidents

1st Vice-President Eiji KOMETANI 1963-1978
2nd Vice-President Harufumi YONEZAWA 1977-1982
3rd Vice-President Yoshinosuke YASOSHIMA 1979-1984
4th Vice-President Isao ORISHIMO 1983-1992
5th Vice-President Kozo AMANO 1985-1988
6th Vice-President Fujio OKAZAKI 1989-1992
7th Vice-President Hideo IGARASHI 1989-1994
8th Vice-President Takao FUKUCHI 1989-1992
9th Vice-President Yoshio KIMURA 1993-1994
10th Vice-President Katsuyuki KURASHIMO 1995-1998
11th Vice-President Shogo KAWAKAMI 1995-1996
12th Vice-President Katsuya FUKUOKA 1997-1998
13th Vice-President Takashi SUZUKI 1999-2000
14th Vice-President Takeo IHARA 1999-2000
15th Vice-President Etsuo YAMAMURA 1999-2000
16th Vice-President Yoshinobu KUMATA 2001-2004
17th Vice-President Yasuhiro SAKAI 2001-2002
18th Vice-President Makoto NOBUKUNI 2001-2006
19th Vice-President Yoshitaka AOYAMA 2003-2006
20th Vice-President Akihusa FUJIOKA 2005-2008
21st Vice-President Yoshiro HIGANO 2007-2010
22nd Vice-President Seiichi KAGAYA 2007-2012
23rd Vice-President Moriki HOSOE 2009-2014
24th Vice-President Yuzuru MIYATA 2011-2016
25th Vice-President Hiromi MITSUHASHI 2013-2014
26th Vice-President Kiyoko HAGIHARA 2015-2018
27th Vice-President Shuetu TAKAHASHI 2015-2018
28th Vice-President Akio MATSUMOTO 2017-2022
29th Vice-President Suminori TOKUNSAGA 2019-2020
30th Vice-President Tsunekazu TODA 2019-2020
31st Vice-President Yasushi ASAMI 2021-now
32nd Vice-President Lily KIMINAMI 2021-now
33rd Vice-President Hidehiko KANEGAE 2023-now

Successive Honorary Members

1st Honorary Member Eiji Kometani 1979-1999
2nd Honorary Member Yasuhiko Oishi 2000-2014
3rd Honorary Member Minoru Beika 2000-2006
4th Honorary Member Harufumi Yonezawa 2000-2004
5th Honorary Member Hisao Nishioka 2001-2015
6th Honorary Member Hideo Igarashi 2001-2006
7th Honorary Member Takao Fukuchi 2001-2016
8th Honorary Member Yoo-Hyuk Kim 2001-now
9th Honorary Member Kozo Amano 2001-now
10th Honorary Member Peter Nijkamp 2001-now
11th Honorary Member Hirotada Kohno 2003-now
12th Honorary Member Katsyuki Kurashimo 2003-2016
13th Honorary Member Katsuya Fukuoka 2003-2018
14th Honorary Member Shogo Kawakami 2004-now
15th Honorary Member Yoshio Kimura 2004-2014
16th Honorary Member Takashi Suzuki 2004-now
17th Honorary Member Morisada Maeshiro 2004
18th Honorary Member Etsuo Yamamura 2006-now
19th Honorary Member Masayuki Sekine 2006-now
20th Honorary Member Peter W.J. Batey 2008-now
21st Honorary Member Geoffrey J.D. Hewings 2008-now
22nd Honorary Member Yoshinobu Kumata 2008-2009
23rd Honorary Member Yasuhiro Sakai 2008-now
24th Honorary Member Isao Hara 2009-now
25th Honorary Member Hiroshi Ohta 2009-now
26th Honorary Member David Boyce 2009-now
27th Honorary Member Lay Gibson 2009-now
28th Honorary Member Aoyama Yoshitaka 2011-now
29th Honorary Member Ihara Takeo 2015-now
30th Honorary Member Kagaya Seiichi 2015-now
31st Honorary Member Nobukuni Makoto 2015-now
32nd Honorary Member Kingsley Haynes 2016-now
33rd Honorary Member Akifusa Fujioka 2017-now
34th Honorary Member Antoine Bailly 2017-2021
35th Honorary Member Amitrajeet A. Batabyal 2017-now
36th Honorary Member Makoto Tawada 2019-now
37th Honorary Member Yoshiro Higano 2019-now
38th Honorary Member Isao Usui 2019-now
39th Honorary Member Akio Kondo 2019-now