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(★)(◆Masayuki Komatsu was born in Iwate Prefecture on the Pacific coast of the northeastern part of Japan´s Honshu Island. He was raised in an environment where fisheries were the mainstay of people´s livelihood. he graduated from the elite Tohoku University in 1977 where he majored in fisheries science. He became an official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and later studied at Yale University in the United States on a Japanese Government Grant, receiving an MBA in 1984. Returning to Japan in 1985, he was assigned by the Japanese Government to represent Japan at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome where he acquired working knowledge of the Italian language. Since 1988 he has devoted himself to many international fishing negotiations. He chaired the Committee on Fisheries at FAO from 2001 to 2003. Of various international fora where he served as a representative for the Government of Japan, he has been especially well known as the Alternate Commissioner for Japan at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and related meetings. His interests in fisheries led him to study in depth the history of fisheries and whaling in Japan from socio-economic and cultural perspectives. In 2004, he received a doctorate from the Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Science, Tokyo University. Shigeko Misaki is the daughter of politician, Mr. Kozaemon Kimura. She was born in Kanagawa Prefecture and, as a child, experienced the dire food shortages after the Second World War while her father was the minister for agriculture and forestry working to help save the Japanese population from starvation, and bringing about the resumption of whaling. After receiving Bachelor of Arts from Keio University in English Literature, her career started as one of the first recruits from Asia for cabin services and publicrelations with the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in 1957. She lived in Australia from 1968 to 1978 during which period she worked at Consulate-General of Japan in Sydney, completed Simultaneous Interpreting Course at the School of Modern Languages at Macquarie University and organized the JETS agency for interpreting and translation. In 1977, the Japanese delegation engaged her for interpreting at the 29th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission held in Canberra. Since then Ms Misaki has served as an interpreter and adviser to the Japanese delegation at IWC meetings for three decades, translating numerous documents necessary for whaling negotiations. Now semi-retired after working for eight years as counselor for international relations at the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokto, she devotes her time to dissemination of the whaling cause, as she believes Japan needs to mend its misconceived image for whaling.) |
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