ASIA PACIFIC RESEARCH INTEGRITY
NETWORK MEETING 2023 TOKYO

Yoshitomo Nakano graduated from Tokyo University, Japan, School of Chemistry,　Faculty of Science in 1969, and obtained master degree in 1971. He was employed by Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation as a researcher doing research and development concerning synthetic polymer and resins. Mitsubishi Chemical sent and supported him to Polymer Research Institute, at the Polymer Science and Engineering Department, Material Research Laboratory of the University of Massachusetts, U.S.A, to do research on novel polymers for two years, from1981 to 1982. After returning to Japan and doing research again, he was moved from the laboratory to the Head Quarter Planning Department as a deputy general manager, drawing up future figure and plan of research and development. He then moved to Osaka Branch Office to do marketing and sales promotion targeting electric companies and pharmaceutical companies, then to Nagoya Blanch Office to do marketing and sales promotion targeting an automobile company and automobile component manufacturing companies as a general manager. He resigned Mitsubishi and changed his job to National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) to do technology transfer and licensing patents filed based on its fundamental research results of metals and materials, as a director of Collaboration Promotion Office, Intellectual Property and technology transfer. NIMS did good research and owned useful patents, so, NIMS obtained good amount of licensing income. Then he obtained good offer from Hiroshima University and he resigned NIMS and changed his job to Hiroshima University1n 2015. He was appointed to the chief division manager and a specially appointed professor of the Intellectual Property Division, at the Center for Collaboration Research and Community Cooperation. He also lectured on Intellectual property and its rights. He resigned Hiroshima University in 2017. He joined the Association for the Promotion of Research Integrity (APRIN) around 2017, and be a director. He resigned a director 2022 and is a member of the Council Board of the APRIN now. His most recent activities in APRIN are making teaching materials, lecturing and teaching items related to research integrity.