Inside Asian Gaming

IAG DEC 2021年12月 亞博匯 84 JAPAN 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 (Disaster Psychiatric Assistance Team) office of the Japan Psychiatric Hospitals Association. She will be expected to provide medical insight for issues related to problem gambling. Serving as a part-time member, Noriko Endo is a graduate of Kyoto University Graduate School specializing in energy policy and security and risk governance. She is currently a specially-appointed The Casino Regulatory Commission ... will be indispensable in developing the national government’s definition of “world class IR” facilities. 賭場監管委員會對於打造日本政府定義的 「世界級IR」設施方面不可或缺。 賭場監管委員會由一名主席和四名成員（兩名專職和兩名兼 職成員）組成。委員會主席是69歲的北村道夫，餘下四名成員 分別是Hiroyuki Ujigane、Michiko Watari、遠藤典子及樋口建 史。 北村為法律專業人士，曾先後擔任仙台檢察長及福岡高檢檢 事長等多個職位。他曾於2015年至2018年擔任法律合規監察長 辦公室的法律合規監察長，後於2020年被任命為賭場監管委員 會的第一任主席。 專職成員Hiroyuki Ujigane曾擔任過名古屋及廣島地區稅務 局局長、國立印刷局局長。國立印刷局是負責紙幣、護照、債 券/證券印刷等的獨立行政機構。順帶一提，新版10,000日圓紙 幣上印澀澤榮一的肖像，他曾在1872年擔任財政部貨幣司司長