Accounting Standards Board of Japan
Financial Accounting Standards Foundation
Sustainability Standards Board of Japan

Members of the ASBJ

Chair

Yasunobu Kawanishi (full-time)

川西安喜副委員長

1996 Joined Asahi & Co. (currently KPMG AZSA LLC)
2003 Technical Staff, Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ)
2004 International Fellow, U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)(-2016)
2013 Visiting Fellow, International Accounting Standards Board (IASB)(-2016)
2016 Board Member (full-time), ASBJ
2019 Vice Chair (full-time), ASBJ
2019 Chair, International Forum of Accounting Standard Setters (IFASS)(-2022)
2022 Chair (full-time), ASBJ
2022 Chair (full-time), SSBJ

Vice Chair

Takao Kamiya (full-time)

紙谷孝雄副委員長

1991 Join Showa Ota & Co (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
2003 Partner, Ernst & Young Shinnihon Co (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
2012 Director, Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ)
2016 Senior Executive Board Member, Professional Practice, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC
2019 Senior Executive Managing Partner, Risk Management, Erst & Young ShinNihon LLC
2022 Vice Chair (full-time), ASBJ

Kazuaki Furuuchi (full-time)

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1993 Joined Tohmatsu & Co. (Currently Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC)
2001 Technical Staff, Accounting Standards Board of Japan (ASBJ)
2007 Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (Currently Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC)
2013 Chair, Accounting Practice Committee, The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (JICPA)
2019 Deputy Business Risk Leader-Assurance, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC
2020 Leader of IFRS Center of Excellence and Deputy Business Risk Leader-Assurance, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC
2025 Vice Chair (full-time), ASBJ

Board Members

Takayoshi Yano (full-time)

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1996 Joined Aoyama Audit Corporation
2005 Manager on secondment, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC (UK)
2011 Director on secondment, Global ACS (currently Global CRS), PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd.
2013 Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan LLC)
2019 Leader of Risk & Quality – Accounting Consulting Services (currently Corporate Reporting Services), PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata LLC (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers Japan LLC)
2025 Board Member (full-time), ASBJ

Hirooki Atagi

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1998 Joined Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. (currently MUFG Bank, Ltd.)
2018 Managing Director, Global Markets Planning Division
2020 Managing Director, Treasury And Investment Division
2022 Managing Director, Head of New Financial Accounting, Process Management Office
2023 Managing Director, Head of Financial Accounting Office, Head of New Financial Accounting, Process Management Office, and concurrent position as Head of Tax Planning Office – Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

Yuji Anada

穴田祐史委員

2016 Deputy General Manager, Actuarial Dept., Nippon Life Insurance Company
2018 Deputy General Manager, Corporate Product Planning Office
2019 General Manager, International Accounting and Actuarial Affairs Office
2020 General Manager, International Accounting and Actuarial Affairs Office, Government Relations Dept. and Actuarial Dept.
2024 General Manager, Economic value-based Actuarial Affairs and Accounting Office, Actuarial Dept. and Government Relations Dept.
2025

General Manager, Actuarial Dept., Nippon Life Insurance Company; and Appointed Actuary, Hanasaku Life Insurance Co., Ltd.

 

Goro Kumagai

熊谷五郎委員

1987 Vice President, Institutional Research and Advisory Department, Nomura Securities
1993 Senior Analyst, Corporate Research Department, Nomura Research Institute
1996 Senior Portfolio Manager, Equity Investment Department, Nomura Asset Management
1999 Director, Equity Research Department, Head of Financial Sector Research, Nikko Salomon Smith Barney Securities
2002 Head of Research, SPARX Asset Management Co., Ltd.
2004 Senior Strategist, Equity Research Dept, Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.
2007 Senior Fellow, Strategic Research Dept, Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.
2019 Executive Vice President, Head of Corporate Reporting, Securities Analysts Association of Japan (-present)
2020 Senior Fellow, Industry-Government-Academia Collaboration Office, Global Strategy Department, Mizuho Securities Co., Ltd.

Masao Kurihara

栗原雅男委員

1989 Joined Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
2014 General Manager, Corporate Accounting Dept., Global Controller Div., Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
2018 Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc
2022 General Manager, Global Controller Div., Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
2023 Managing Officer, General Manager of Global Controller Div., Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
2026 Executive Managing Officer, General Manager of Global Controller Div., Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

Atsushi Koide

小出篤委員

1998 Joined the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd. (currently MUFG Bank, Ltd.)
2001 Research Associate, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
2004 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University
2008 Visiting Scholar, University of Pennsylvania Law School (-2010)
2010 Professor, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University
2023 Professor, Faculty of Law, Waseda University

Yozo Sato

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1986 Joined Asahi-Kasei Corporation
2006 GM of Cooperate Accounting Dept.
2013 GM of Cooperate Tax Dept.
2017 Principal Expert of Corporate Accounting & Control
2018 GM & Principal Expert of Cooperate Accounting & Control
2022 Senior Managing Executive & Principal Expert of Corporate Accounting & Finance
2023 Senior Managing Executive & Senior Fellow, Corporate Accounting & Finance
2024

Assistant to GM, Senior Fellow, Corporate Accounting & Finance

2025

Assistant to GM, Accounting & Tax Senior Adviser, Corporate Accounting & Finance

 

Masatoshi Tan

丹昌敏委員

1990 Joined Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd
2007 Manager, Finance & Accounting Office(Tax Group), Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd
2009 Manager, Finance & Accounting Office (Accounting Group), Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd
2014 General Manager, Finance & Accounting Office (Tax Group), Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd
2016 General Manager, Finance Department, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd
2018 General Manager, Accounting Department, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd
2022 Senior Fellow, Accounting Department, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd
2025

Senior Fellow, Accounting Department and Audit & Supervisory Board member’s Office, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd

2025

Senior Fellow, Accounting Department and General manager, Audit and Supervisory Committee’s Office, Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd

Kohei Matsushita

松下晃平委員

1997 Chuo Audit Corporation
2003 M&A Advisory Dept., Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
2016 Executive Director, M&A Advisory Dept., Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

Takeshi Yoshida

2001 Joined Century Ota Showa & Co. (currently Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC)
2016 Partner, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC
2022 Leader of Accounting Issue Research and Consultation, Professional Practice, Ernst & Young ShinNihon LLC (-2025)
2022 Chair of the Committee for Business Accounting Standards and Practice, The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants (-2025)
2025 Executive Board Member (Accounting and Corporate Reporting), The Japanese Institute of Certified Public Accountants

Masaki Yoneyama

1995 Lecturer, Assistant Professor, and Professor, Faculty of economics, Gakushuin University
2005 Professor, Graduate School of Accountancy, Waseda University
2012 Professor, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo

 

(as of April 1, 2026)