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March 9, 2017

(Updated on April 23, 2024)

Financial Services Agency

• The Monitors receive submitted comments directly without any involvements of FSA official. The consent of the person who submitted the comment is required in order for any FSA official to review it.

  (The FSA sets rules for the strict and appropriate protection of confidentiality, stipulating that the comments are delivered only to the Financial Policies Monitors and staff members specially appointed as the Monitors’ assistants.)

• Persons submitting a comment may designate a particular Monitor to receive it. When no particular Monitor is designated, an available Monitor will take it under his/her proper care.

• Profiles of the six Financial Policies Monitors are as follows:

  INOUE Satoshi	Attorney at law (Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu) (CV and specialized fields (PDF:114KB))
  KANSAKU Hiroyuki	Professor, Faculty of Law, Gakushuin University (CV and specialized fields (PDF:142KB))
  SHIRASU Yoko	Professor, Department of Economics, Aoyama Gakuin University (CV and specialized fields (PDF:23KB))
  NAGASAWA Yumiko	Organizer, Foster Forum (forum to foster quality financial products) (CV and specialized fields (PDF:130KB))
  YONEYAMA Takau	Emeritus Professor, Hitotsubashi University (CV and specialized fields (PDF:9KB))
  WANI Akihiro	Attorney at law (Senior Counsel, Greenberg Traurig Tokyo Law Offices) (CV and specialized fields (PDF:154KB))

• Submitted comments, each accompanied by the opinion of the responsible Financial Policies Monitor, will be shared with the FSA executives and officials in charge for the creation of better financial policies without disclosing submitter’s name or company.

• To ensure the effectiveness and transparency of the Financial Policies Monitor system, an outline of key comments will be disclosed on a regular basis, with the consent of the persons who submitted them. The personal information of the persons submitting the comments and the names of the organizations to which they belong to will not be disclosed.

• Financial Policies Monitors may contact persons who submit comments for the purpose of verifying the facts contained in their comments or for other purposes.