After serving as a government official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (the "MITI", currently the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) from 1965 to 1994 and as a director on the board of various major companies from 1994 to 2005, Mr. Kunio Morikiyo is currently Of Counsel at Anderson Mori & Tomotsune. At the MITI, Mr. Morikiyo attended and significantly contributed to various international conferences. Also, he was engaged in framing the amendments to very significant laws in the Japanese business world, such as the Extraordinary Measures Law for Implementation and Facilitation of Specified Start-Up Business and the Trade Insurance Law.