Inside Asian Gaming

IAG JAPAN DEC 2021 80 The Casino Regulatory Commission shall be made up of one chair and four members (two full- time and two part-time members). The committee chair is 69-year-old Michio Kitamura. The four members are Hiroyuki Ujigane, Michiko Watari, Noriko Endo and Tateshi Higuchi. Kitamura is a legal professional with successive service in various posts including theSuperintending Prosecutor of the Sendai and Fukuoka High Public Prosecutors offices. He spent 2015 to 2018 as the Inspector General of Legal Compliance of the IGO (Inspector General’s Office of legal compliance) before being appointed as the inaugural chair of the Casino Regulatory Commission in 2020. Full-time member Hiroyuki Ujigane served as Commissioner of the Regional Taxation Bureau for Nagoya and Hiroshima before taking on the role of head of the National Printing Bureau. The National Printing Bureau is the independent administrative institution that prints paper currency, passports, bonds/securities and so forth. Incidentally, Eiichi Shibusawa, whose likeness is used on the new 10,000 yen note, was the head of the ministry's department for currency in 1872 (equivalent to the current National Printing Bureau) and spent a lot of time and effort on reforming the modern monetary system. Also appointed as a full-time committee member, Michiko Watari is an advisor to the DPAT The Casino Regulatory Commission ... will be indispensable in developing the national government’s definition of “world class IR” facilities. カジノ管理委員会は、「世界最高水準のＩ Ｒ」整備に必要不可欠な機関である。 カジノ管理委員会は、委員長1名及び委員4名(内2名は非常 勤)をもって構成されている。委員長は北村道夫(きたむら みち お)(69)。委員は、氏兼裕之(うじがね ひろゆき)、渡 路子(わたり みちこ)、遠藤紀子(えんどう のりこ)、 口建史(ひぐち たてし)の 4名。(敬称略) 北村氏は、仙台福岡高等検察庁検事長、福岡高検検事長な どを歴任した後、2015年から2018年まで防衛監察本部監察監 を務めた、法のプロフェッショナル。2020年にカジノ管理委員会 の初代委員長に就任した。 JAPAN