Born in Kyoto in 1952, Tsuneo Matsumoto is a professor of private law at Hitotsubashi University School of Law, Tokyo, Japan. He got his LLB and LLM degrees at Kyoto University, and joined Hitotsubashi in 1991. Since 2009 he serves as Director for JD Program. His major areas of concern are consumer law and policy as well as ICT law and policy. He has been advising various ministries and agencies in Japan on consumer and ICT issues. He is the chair of the Consumer Commission, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, which was established in September 1, 2009, at the occasion of the change of regulatory framework for consumer protection in Japan. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Council of JISC and served as the chair of its Consumer Policy Committee. He also serves as the chair of Japan’s mirror committee on ISO/SR as well as a member of the ISO/COPOLCO Chair’s Advisory Group. Professor Matsumoto is a board member of the International Association for Consumer Law. Since late 90s, he has been deeply involved in legal technical assistance program for transition economy, especially Cambodia and Vietnam, through Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). His English publication includes “Privatization of Consumer Law: Current Developments and Features of Consumer Law in Japan at the Turn of the Century”, 30 Hitotsubashi Journal of Law and Politics 1 (2002) , “Consumer Protection Laws in Asian Countries”, Nobuyuki Sakumoto, Masayuki Kobayashi & Shinya Imaizumi (ed.), LAW DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC CHANGES IN ASIA (IDE-JETRO, 2003), “Anglo-American Law Research in the Study of Civil Law in Japan”, Zentaro Kitagawa & Karl Riesenhuber (Eds.), THE IDENTITY OF GERMAN AND JAPANESE CIVIL LAW IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (De Gruyter Recht, Berlin), “Managing Risks Through Soft Law Techniques; Can They Work for Consumers?”, Iain Ramsay, John Salloum, Naomi Horrox & Geoff Mowatt (ed.), RISK AND CHOICE IN CONSUMER SOCIETY (Ant.N.Sakkoulas, Athens) and “Reshaping Consumer Policy”, Highlighting JAPAN through articles, March 2010.