Board of Directors and Executive Officers

Strategic Advisor

Toshiyuki Ito

Graduated from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Defense Academy of Japan, and completed a master's degree in Area Studies at the University of Tsukuba. Became a submarine officer in the Maritime Self-Defense Force. After serving as Captain of the submarine Hayashio, Defense Attaché at the Embassy of Japan in the United States, Commander of the 2nd Submarine Force, Director of the Public Relations Office, Maritime Staff Office, Director of the Intelligence Division, Intelligence Officer, Intelligence Headquarters, Ministry of Defense, Director of Command, Communication and Intelligence, Maritime Staff Office, Director of the 2nd Technical School, Joint Staff College, and Director General, Kure District, Maritime Self Defense Force, he became a professor at the Kanazawa Institute of Technology Graduate School (Toranomon Campus) in 2016. Professor at Kanazawa Institute of Technology (Toranomon Campus) (Graduate School of Innovation Management, Department of Innovation Management) since 2016.

Expertise: Leadership and followership, risk management, defense and security
Papers and Publications
Dissertation: Russia's Foreign Policy (Cultural Anthropological Analysis)
Book: "Textbook of General Staff" (Futabasha, 2023)
Supervisor: "Defense Simulation! Self-Defense Forces vs. Unification Korea" (Takarajimasya, 2020)
Author of Sankei Shimbun's Shoronan column and Jiji Press comment liner, commentator for Nippon Journal and Bunka Hoso's "Ohayo Tera-chan", and other media appearances.
Awards: "The Legion of Merit" from the U.S. Secretary of Defense for his service as a Defense Attaché and "The Legion of Merit" from the U.S. Secretary of Defense for his service as Director of the Naval Staff
Other Professional Information: Executive Director of the National Federation of Defense Associations of Japan.

Tokyo University of Science, Faculty of Science, Specially Appointed Professor

D. in 1988 from the Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University. In 1989, he joined the Department of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University as a Research Associate in the Department of Quantum Biology. He was a visiting researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Germany (1993-1995) and at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. He became an associate professor at the Institute for Physiological Research, Okazaki National Research Institute in 1996 and a professor at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Division of Extensive Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the University of Tokyo in 2003. During that time, he also served as a specially-appointed professor in the "Next Generation Imaging and Image Analysis Laboratory" of the University of Tokyo-Nikon Corporation Social Cooperation Chair. He also served as a specially-appointed professor at the Center for Cell Regulation Research, Institute for the Creation of Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology. 2021: Retired from the University of Tokyo (Professor Emeritus). 2021: Specially-appointed professor at the Institute for the Creation of Science and Technology (now Research Institute for Advanced Studies), Tokyo Institute of Technology (now Tokyo University of Science). 2022: Professor at the Tokyo University of Science (now Tokyo University of Science). Director of the Collaborative Research Center for Multimodal Cell Analysis (October 2022 - March 2025). Also Specially Appointed Professor at the International Research Center for Neurointelligence (IRCN), Institute for International Advanced Studies, The University of Tokyo. Visiting Professor at Jichi Medical University.

Aiming to establish a new life science that combines morphological information (cell biology, biophysics, etc.) with molecular information (biochemistry, molecular biology, etc.), he has developed a "co-variation network analysis technique (PLOM-CON method)" that stratifies cell states based on the temporal synchrony of biomolecules, mainly proteins in cells, using a large amount of cell (stained) images as an indicator. PLOM-CON method), which stratifies cellular states based on the temporal synchronization of bio-molecules, mainly proteins, in cells. In addition, the "semi-intact cell resealing method," which can temporarily permeabilize the cell membrane to exchange cytoplasm while maintaining the morphology of intracellular organelles and cytoskeleton and their three-dimensional arrangement, and analytically reconstruct various biological phenomena (signal transduction, organelle dynamics, etc.) that occur in a synchronized cytoplasmic environment and established a method to create various pathological model cells and analyze their pathological expression factors. The former is a technology that can be used for "cell design" and "cell evaluation" to create cell states under specific conditions, and the latter is a new technology that enables "cell editing" by changing cell dramatotypes without genetic modification of cells. By combining these two new technologies and cycling through "cell design→editing→evaluation→" at high speed, we are working on the creation of a "cell design" center that can perform analysis using stratified networks of drug efficacy, main and side effects, and toxicity expression of new drugs, and the creation of safe and new functionally activated cells without genetic modification. The center is also working on the creation of a "cell design" center to create safe and novel functionally activated cells without genetic modification.

Attorney at Law (Uryu & Itoga), Certified Fraud Examiner

Masataka Hayakawa

Graduated from the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law in 1999, and was appointed as a public prosecutor in 2000 (Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office). After working at Chiba District Public Prosecutors Office (Special Criminal Investigation Department), University of Washington School of Law as a visiting scholar, Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office (Special Investigation Department), Ministry of Justice Criminal Affairs Bureau (General Affairs Division), and Tokushima District Public Prosecutors Office (third-seat prosecutor), he registered as a lawyer (Daiichi Tokyo Bar Association) in October 2014. In May 2015, he became a partner at Atsumi & Sakai, and in January 2016, he became a senior partner at the same firm, where he is in charge of the Crisis Management Practice Group. In addition to serving as a member of third-party committees of listed companies, including as a member of the "Special Investigation Committee for the Japan Post Insurance Policy Policy Problem," as well as advising on other corporate misconduct investigations, handling investigations and investigations by authorities in cases of insider trading, market manipulation, and other violations of the Financial Instruments and Exchange Law, and crisis management public relations legal and other contingency measures, In addition, he provides advice on the establishment and strengthening of compliance and risk management systems in normal times, the establishment and operation of whistle-blowing systems, and legal services related to the creation of AI-based businesses.

In April 2022, he was appointed as Managing Executive Officer of Japan Post Corporation and Senior Executive Officer of Japan Post Corporation, and in June 2023, as Senior Executive Officer of Japan Post Corporation and Senior Executive Officer of Japan Post Corporation, and as CCO (Chief Compliance Officer; responsible for compliance) of the Japan Post Group, Worked to restore trust after the scandals and strengthen the Group's governance, compliance, and risk management systems. He is also working to improve the whistle-blowing and harassment consultation systems, disseminate the Group's corporate code of conduct, strengthen the crisis management system including natural disasters, upgrade risk management including compliance risk, reform the corporate culture and corporate climate, and enhance governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) by utilizing technologies and solutions such as AI. He has been working on the establishment of various mechanisms and the improvement and establishment of their operation (implementation of the PDCA cycle) by standardizing, streamlining, and upgrading operations in the area of compliance (GRC). Since April 2025, after his retirement, he has been working to provide support for the enhancement of corporate management decision-making, horizontal deployment of best practices in the areas of governance, risk management, compliance, and sustainability, and enhancement of the functions of the two lines of corporate management (legal, compliance, risk management, sustainability promotion, and other administrative divisions). He has been an advisor to FRONTEO since April 2025. He is an attorney (Uryu & Itoga Law Office) and a certified fraud examiner.

Former Executive Officer and General Manager, Economic Security Management Office, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Takashi Ito

Takashi Ito graduated from the Faculty of Law, Keio University in 1986. Joined Mitsubishi Electric Corporation in the same year. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Ito was dispatched to the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), where he was involved in semiconductor marketing and business planning, as well as industry restructuring, trade friction, and international cartel litigation resolution. From 1995 to 1997, he was assigned to the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren), where he worked to strengthen ties between the governments and business communities of European countries and the Japanese business community.

In October 2020, he was appointed as Director of the Economic Security Control Office when Mitsubishi Electric Corporation established the Economic Security Control Office. In April 2023, he was appointed as Executive Officer, and retired in March 2025.