JAPAN

Hiroya Akiba

M.A. in Economics, Tokyo Metropolitan University; Ph.D. in Economics State University of New York at Binghamton. Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University. Professor, School of Political Science & Economics, Waseda University.

Memberships: American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, Econometric Society, Western Economic Association, New York Academy of Sciences, Japanese Economic Association, The Japan Society of International Economics.

Yoichi Ando

Ph.D. Graduated School of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. Research Works on Architectural Acoustics, Dept. of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Kobe University. Associate Professor, Dept. of Environmental Planning, Kobe University; Professor, Dept. of Global Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University.

Editorial Board of AIP Series in Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing.

Reizo Baba

MD Nagoya University, Japan. Chief Physician, Dept. of Pediatrics, Nakatsugawa City Hospital; Pediatric Cardiologist, Fukuoka Children's Hospital; Pediatrician, Tokai University Hospital. Former Associate Professor, Dept. of Physical Education and Graduate School of Sports Sciences, Tokai University. Transfered to Aichi Medical University on April 01,2002. Research on pediatric cardiology and exercise physiology.

Yoshitaka Beppu

DR SCI Nagoya University 1975; BP; Assoc. Prof.; Dept. of Informatics, Aichi Gakuin University, Iwasaki, Nisshin-city.

Mitsuhei Murata

Higher Diplomatic Service Tokyo University, Faculty of Law. Former Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador: Algeria, France, Senegal, Switzerland, Liechstenstein. Professor Tokai Gakuen University. Councilor Inamori Foundation.