| Mr. Masaaki
Kobashi
Mr. Kobashi currently works at the Japan Railway Construction,
Transport and Technology Agency (JRTT), whose primary missions
extend from development of new technologies of railways and
ships, construction of Shinkansen (bullet train) networks
nationwide through contribution to promote mass transit systems.
As the Director, Planning and Strategy, he is primarily responsible
for creating strategic business plans.
Mr. Kobashi joined the Ministry of Transport, Government
of Japan in 1980, and has a rich experience of working in
the international field of the Ministry of Transportation
(currently the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport).
He has been the international civil aviation negotiator as
the Senior Officer for Air Talk, International Aviation Division,
in 1998. After working in Washington, DC as the senior representative
of the JITI, he returned to Tokyo and worked as the Director,
International Shipping Division, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure
and Transport whose prime responsibility is the Japanese delegation
to the International Maritime Organization.
He had been one of the members of the “Chicago Regime
Research Committee” under JITI, since its establishment
on January 2006, of which the report submitted to JITI on
the problems with the Chicago Convention Regime and directions
for improvements, is the basis of this seminar.
He graduated from University of Tokyo with a B.A. in Economics
at and received an M.A. in International Relation at Yale
University.
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