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Board of Directors

  • Kenichi Osugi
  • Nicholas E. Benes
  • Janari Tonoike
  • Katsuhiko Tanabe
  • Ken Hokugo
  • Masataka Ueda
  • Nobuyuki Hiraizumi
  • Yuji Inoue
  • Mikiharu Noma

Sustaining Donors

  • Aberdeen Standard Investments (Japan) Limited
  • Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd.
  • Asset Value Investors Ltd
  • Baillie Gifford & Co
  • CLSA Securities Japan Co., Ltd.
  • Cornwall Capital
  • Cosmo Public Relations
  • Dalton Advisory K.K.
  • ERS of Texas
  • Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Limited
  • Give2Asia
  • Hibiki Path Advisors Pte. Ltd.
  • Hup Jin Goh
  • James R. Weisser
  • Kathy Matsui
  • Masaki Gotoh
  • Misaki Capital Inc.
  • New Horizon Capital Co., Ltd.
  • Oasis
  • Prudential Holdings of Japan, Inc.
  • State Street Trust and Banking Co., Ltd.
  • TANABE & PARTNERS
  • Tsuyoshi Maruki
  • Regional Fund Manager (US$25 Bln AUM)
  • Institutional Investor (US$6 Bln AUM)
  • Fund Manager
  • Nicholas E. Benes

Corporate Participating Members

  • Advantest Corporation
  • Anritsu Corporation
  • Brain Center Inc.
  • Farallon Capital Japan LLC
  • Franklin Templeton Investments
  • Hibiki Path Advisors Pte Ltd
  • Marathon London Tokyo Office
  • Natixis Japan Securities Co., Ltd
  • Orbis Investments K.K.
  • Usonian Investments LLC

Special Sponsors

Open
  • The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan (CCCJ)
  • Donald Kanak
  • Sayoko Matsumoto
  • Seishi Ikeda (Attorney-at-Law)
  • Symphony Financial Partners
  • Robert F. Grondine
  • Chairman, Asian Operations (Financial Institution)
  • Fund Manager (Individual)
  • Partner, Japanese Law Firm
  • Teacher (Individual)

Founding Sponsors

Open
  • Akihisa Shiozaki (Attorney)
  • Akio Sashida
  • Allen T. Atchley
  • Barrett O’Neill
  • Bradford Walters
  • Dai Kimura
  • Daniel Bernstein
  • David A. Makman
  • Glen S. Wood
  • Vicki L. Beyer
  • Hajime Matsuura
  • Helen Dulik
  • Kazuo Noda
  • K.K. Curtis Herron
  • Koichiro Hayashi
  • Koichiro Naganuma
  • Kyoji Fukao
  • Makito Hamada
  • Masataka Ueda
  • Royanne Doi
  • Shinya Tsujimoto
  • Tadao Suzuki
  • Takaaki Eguchi
  • Takaya Seki
  • Takayuki Fujii
  • Thierry Porte
  • Yuuichiro Nakajima

Supporters

Open
  • The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ)
  • Asian Corporate Governance Association(ACGA)
  • CFA Society Japan
  • Codrington Corporate Governance Japan
  • Harmony Jinzai, Inc.
  • METRICAL INC,
  • Rikkyo Institute for Business Law Studies
  • Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship
  • Sunrise Advisor Co., Ltd.
  • Kenta Kumagai (Attorney)
  • Kazutaka Kuroda
  • Takehiro Nakagawa

Institutional Investor (US$6 Bln AUM)

The Board Director Training Institute (BDTI) is a "public interest" nonprofit in Japan dedicated to training about directorship, corporate governance, and related management techniques. It is certified by the Japanese government to conduct these activities as a regulated nonprofit. Read a summary about BDTI here, and see a menu of its services for both corporations and investors here.

Board of Directors

  • Kenichi Osugi
  • Nicholas E. Benes
  • Janari Tonoike
  • Katsuhiko Tanabe
  • Ken Hokugo
  • Masataka Ueda
  • Nobuyuki Hiraizumi
  • Yuji Inoue
  • Mikiharu Noma

Sustaining Donors

  • Aberdeen Standard Investments (Japan) Limited
  • Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd.
  • Asset Value Investors Ltd
  • Baillie Gifford & Co
  • CLSA Securities Japan Co., Ltd.
  • Cornwall Capital
  • Cosmo Public Relations
  • Dalton Advisory K.K.
  • ERS of Texas
  • Fidelity Management & Research (Japan) Limited
  • Give2Asia
  • Hibiki Path Advisors Pte. Ltd.
  • Hup Jin Goh
  • James R. Weisser
  • Kathy Matsui
  • Masaki Gotoh
  • Misaki Capital Inc.
  • New Horizon Capital Co., Ltd.
  • Oasis
  • Prudential Holdings of Japan, Inc.
  • State Street Trust and Banking Co., Ltd.
  • TANABE & PARTNERS
  • Tsuyoshi Maruki
  • Regional Fund Manager (US$25 Bln AUM)
  • Institutional Investor (US$6 Bln AUM)
  • Fund Manager
  • Nicholas E. Benes

Corporate Participating Members

  • Advantest Corporation
  • Anritsu Corporation
  • Brain Center Inc.
  • Farallon Capital Japan LLC
  • Franklin Templeton Investments
  • Hibiki Path Advisors Pte Ltd
  • Marathon London Tokyo Office
  • Natixis Japan Securities Co., Ltd
  • Orbis Investments K.K.
  • Usonian Investments LLC

Special Sponsors

Open
  • The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan (CCCJ)
  • Donald Kanak
  • Sayoko Matsumoto
  • Seishi Ikeda (Attorney-at-Law)
  • Symphony Financial Partners
  • Robert F. Grondine
  • Chairman, Asian Operations (Financial Institution)
  • Fund Manager (Individual)
  • Partner, Japanese Law Firm
  • Teacher (Individual)

Founding Sponsors

Open
  • Akihisa Shiozaki (Attorney)
  • Akio Sashida
  • Allen T. Atchley
  • Barrett O’Neill
  • Bradford Walters
  • Dai Kimura
  • Daniel Bernstein
  • David A. Makman
  • Glen S. Wood
  • Vicki L. Beyer
  • Hajime Matsuura
  • Helen Dulik
  • Kazuo Noda
  • K.K. Curtis Herron
  • Koichiro Hayashi
  • Koichiro Naganuma
  • Kyoji Fukao
  • Makito Hamada
  • Masataka Ueda
  • Royanne Doi
  • Shinya Tsujimoto
  • Tadao Suzuki
  • Takaaki Eguchi
  • Takaya Seki
  • Takayuki Fujii
  • Thierry Porte
  • Yuuichiro Nakajima

Supporters

Open
  • The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ)
  • Asian Corporate Governance Association(ACGA)
  • CFA Society Japan
  • Codrington Corporate Governance Japan
  • Harmony Jinzai, Inc.
  • METRICAL INC,
  • Rikkyo Institute for Business Law Studies
  • Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship
  • Sunrise Advisor Co., Ltd.
  • Kenta Kumagai (Attorney)
  • Kazutaka Kuroda
  • Takehiro Nakagawa

Articles about BDTI

Social Entrepreneurship
Do the Right Thing
A Charitable Giving Society

Articles by Nicholas Benes

“Governance policy in Japan: Kicking the can down the road?”
“Japan’s corporate governance stymies sustainable investing“
“Corporate governance in Japan now”
”Japan’s New Code of Conduct”
”Corporate Governance Reform in Japan”
”The Reform Abenomics Needs”
“Governance | US vs. Japan—Part Two”
“Governance | US vs. Japan—Part One”
”Quick Reform Wins for Abe”
”Japan’s Coming Shareholder Revolution (2001)”

「コーポレートガバナンスを変革する」
「コーポレートガバナンス・コードの提案者から企業へのアドバイス」
「コーポレートガバナンス・コードが効果を発揮するために」

「アベノミクス、真の審判は総選挙後-初の企業統治指針に注目」
「上場企業が目指すべきベスト・プラクティスの行動基準を」
「アベノミクスが必要とする改革とは」
「安倍首相がすぐに成し遂げられる改革」
「急がれる日本の企業統治改革-オリンパス、東電がやるべきこと」
「福島の教訓 – 日本は企業統治の向上を」

Articles by Kenichi Osugi

“Protecting Minority Shareholders During Shifts inCorporate Control”

“What is Converging? Rules on Hostile Takeovers in Japan and the Convergence Debate” (Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, 2007)

“Recent Reform of Japan's Corporate Law in an International Context: Who have Participated in the Reforms, and How?” (Japanese Yearbook of International Law Vol. 53. ,2010)

“On the Convergence of Corporate Law around the World and its Background” (Horitsu Jiho, 2012)

“How to Improve the Monitoring Function of the Board of Directors” (Shoji Homu, 2011)

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