| JAPAN LABOR BULLETIN |
| ISSUED BY THE JAPAN INSTITUTE OF LABOUR |
Announcement
Professor Emeritus Dr. Tadashi Hanami, former Research Director General of the Japan Institute of Labour was appointed as the new Chairman of the Institute as of April 1, 2001. He was born on February 15, 1930. He graduated with a Bachelor of Law in 1953 and a Doctor of Law in 1962, from the University of Tokyo. From 1959 to 1962 he was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Cologne in Germany, and from 1964 to 1965 a Fulbright Research Scholar at Cornell University in the U.S. From 1966 to 1999 he was Professor of Law, and from 1979 to 1982 the Dean of the Law School at Sophia University in Tokyo. In 1985 he was awarded the Doctor honoris causa from Catholic University Leuven, Belgium where he taught in 1977 and 1992. Also he was a visiting professor at the Harvard Law School from 1984 to 1985 and again in 1990. He served as President of the International Industrial Relations Association from 1998 to 2000. In Japan he has held government posts as Chairman of the Central Council on Labor Standards and Chairman of the Central Labour Relations Commission. He is the author of many books in Japanese and English on labor law and industrial relations.
The new Research Director General, Prof. Dr. Akira Ono was born on January 2, 1934. He took his Bachelor of Commerce in 1957, Master of Economics in 1959 and Doctor of Economics in 1964 at Hitotsubashi University. From 1966 to 1970 he was an Associate Professor of Economics at Chuo University and from 1972 to 1979 Professor of Economics at Seikei University. He was a Professor of Economics from 1979 to 1997 and Dean of Economics from 1989 to 1991 at Hitotsubashi University. Since 1997 he has been Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University and Professor of Economics at Tokyo Keizai University. He has held government posts as a member of the Employment Council from 1996 to 2000, a member of the Central Employment Security Council from 1991 to 1999 and as a Public Commissioner of the Central Labour Relations Commission since 1996. His special field is labor economics and he is the author of a number of books in Japanese on labor economy, employment and the labor market. He has received a number of prestigious Japanese awards for his academic writing.
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