Members | Space Policy Documents Research Project

Hirotaka Watanabe
Specially Appointed Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Ph.D. (Law)　 researchmap: Dr. Watanabe supervises this project as the principal investigator. He is in charge of the analysis of space policy and law documents from the perspective of political and diplomatic history. His areas of expertise are international politics, diplomatic history, space policy, and space law. Specifically, he conducts research in the history of space policy in Japan, the United States, and Russia. He was a student and visiting researcher at the Space Policy Institute, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, where he is currently a non-resident scholar. His major works include: "History and Current Status of Japanese Space Policy: Autonomy and International Cooperation" International Affairs, No. 684 (September 2019), and "The Cold War and Project Apollo: Competition and Cooperation in the U.S. Space Policy" (Doctoral Dissertation, Osaka University, September 2010).

Shinichi Yoro
Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University, Ph.D. (Science)　 researchmap: Dr. Yoro assists the principal investigator and is in charge of building the Space Policy and Law Documents database. He specializes in legal informatics and is interested in the use of computer technology for the dissemination of legal information. He also manages information systems and servers as the Director of the Information Management Office at Osaka University's Graduate School of Law and Politics. His major works include: Legal Informatics, Revised Second Edition (Yuhikaku, 2006), and "Evaluation Method for Practical Training Projects: Peer Review Method Using the Web" (Special Edition: Information Technology Revolution and Law School Education, Practical Examples of Using IT in the Classroom), The Horitsu Jiho, Vol. 74, No. 3 (March 2002).

Katsuhiko Toyama
Professor, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Ph.D. (Engineering)　 researchmap: Dr. Toyama is in charge of building and analyzing the Space Policy and Law Documents database. He specializes in natural language processing, legislative administration support, and knowledge processing. He is researching and developing the application of natural language processing technology to the field of legal information processing, especially to support legal document practices such as drafting, revision, management, and translation. His major works include: the development of the Ministry of Justice's Japanese Law Translation (JLT) Database System, and "Design and Development of the Japanese Law Translation Database System," Information Network Law Review, Vol. 11 (2012). JLT is at the forefront of making Japan's legal data more open and has become an essential foundation for the international dissemination of Japan's legal information.

Souichirou Kozuka
Professor, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University, Ph.D. (Law)　 researchmap: Dr. Kozuka is in charge of analyzing space policy and law documents from the perspective of commercial and international law. He specializes in commercial, corporate, and space law. He has published many groundbreaking research results in the field of space business law. His major works include: "Regulation of navigational satellites in Japan" in Ram S. Jakhu & Paul Stephen Dempsey eds., Handbook of Space Law (Routledge, 2017) pp. 309-312; "Strict Liability and State Indemnification under Japanese Law: The New Space Activities Act Compared with the Scheme on Compensation for Nuclear Damages," Zeitschrift für Japanisches Recht (Journal of Japanese Law) Vol. 22, No. 43 (2017) pp. 3-20; and "The Cape Town Convention and the "Fitness" to the Context: Considering the Features of Aircraft, Rail and Space Financing," in Christoph Benicke & Stefan Huber Hrsg., National, International, Transnational: Harmonischer Dreiklang im Recht (Festschrift für Herbert Kronke zum 70. Geburtstag) (Gieseking Verlag, 2020) pp. 1005-1015.

Yasushi Sato
Professor, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Niigata University, Ph.D., To March 2023　 researchmap: Dr. Sato is in charge of analyzing space policy and law documents from the perspective of the history of science and technology, and science and technology policy. His areas of expertise are sociology of science and history of science and technology. He has researched the history of space development in the United States and Japan. His major works include: NASA and Its Engineering Cultures: Human Qualities in Grand System Building (University of Tokyo Press, First edition 2007, Expanded revised edition 2019), in which he analyzed NASA's organizational culture and technical practice during the Apollo program, and his recent book, Contemporary History of Science and Technology: Systems, Risks, Innovations (Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2019), in which he discussed the history and future of artificial intelligence, genomics, energy, and space development from the viewpoint of the history of science and technology.

Shinji Ueda
Professor, Faculty of Law, Kansai University, M.A. (Law), From April 2023　 researchmap: Prof. Ueda is in charge of analyzing space policy and law documents from the perspective of commercial and domestic law. He specializes in commercial law, corporate law, and financial instruments and exchange act. He studies insider trading, based on achievements in foreign law and other academic fields. In recent years, he has expanded his research to include other unfair transactions involving financial instruments in the capital market. His major works include: "Japan-U.S. Insider Trading Regulations about Non-public information held by the government," Japan Business Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 9 (2021) pp. 134-138, and "'Insider trading' in primary markets," 70th Anniversary Papers Collection of Kenichi Yoshimoto: Laws and Regulations of Corporate Finance and Capital Market (Shojihomu, 2020).

Takahiro Komamizu
Associate Professor, Mathematical and Data Science Center, Nagoya University, Ph.D. (Engineering)　 researchmap: Dr. Komamizu is in charge of building and maintaining the Space Policy and Law Documents Database. He specializes in data engineering and databases. In particular, he studies the construction and management of LOD and its application to legal information. His major works include: "Random Walk-based Entity Representation Learning and Re-ranking for Entity Search," Knowledge & Information Systems, Vol. 62, No. 8 (2020), and "Analyzing Japanese Law History through Modeling Multi-versioned Entity," Blockchain enabled Sematic Web and Contextualized Knowledge Graphs with the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (2019).

Takuya Maeshiro
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Co^* Design & Graduate School of Law and Politics, Osaka University, Ph.D. (Law)　 researchmap: Dr. Maehsiro serves as the secretary for this project, assisting in the collection and analysis of space policy and law documents. He specializes in international politics and the history of U.S.-Japan relations, especially the U.S. policy in the occupation of Okinawa. His major works include: "The Road to the Okinawa Reversion: A Reexamination of Paul Caraway's Rule over the Ryukyu Islands, 1961-1964" (Part 1 and 2), Osaka Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 5 (January 2021), and Vol. 70, No. 6, (March 2021). These articles reconsider the rule of Okinawa by High Commissioner Caraway, which has come under the spotlight because it caused deep resentment among Okinawan residents.