Fumito KomiyaProf. Dr F. Komiya was born on 15 July 1948. He became a Bachelor of Law in 1972, a Master of Law in 1978 and a Doctor of Law in 1992, at Hokkaido University. He was also awarded a Master's Degree (LL.M.) from the University of California (Berkeley) n 1984 and a Ph.D. from the University of London (LSE) in 1997. He was Professor of Law at Hokkaigakuen University at Sapporo, Hokkaido from 1997 to 2011. Since 2011 he has been Professor of Law at Senshu University, Tokyo. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California (Berkeley) in 1984 and at the University of Michigan in 1987, a visiting professor at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium during 1995-1996, and an overseas fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge University in 2009. He was a commissioner of the Civil Service Commission, Hokkaido Prefectural Government between 1998 and 2008; the chairperson of the regional conciliation committee of the Central Labour Commission (chairperson 2006-2008). He is presently the chairperson of the Hokkaido Regional Labour Council, the Ministry of HealthWelfare as well as of the Hokkaido Local Government Labour Council and also a conciliator of individual labour disputes, Hokkaido Labour Bureau. He is the author of several books in Japanese and a number of articles in Japanese and English on labour law. Read More Read Less