NPO KickOff

PRESS RELEASE

International Game developers Association (IGDA) Japan chapter announces that on 23th June 2012, the association held its first meeting for the purpose of incorporating it as a non-profitable organization. It aims to complete the registration process and re-launch as an NPO in January 2013.

The association’s goal to support Japanese game industry and its communities, and it believes incorporating as an NPO is a step forward to achieve the goal.

Chief Director     Kenji Ono (Game journalist)
Co-cheif Director  Kiyoshi Shin (Journalist <Games/IT>, Adjunct instructor at Ritsumeikan University College of Image Arts and Sciences
Co-cheif Director  Toshifumi Nakabayashi (Cyberz Inc. CEO)
Director           Katsuteru Takahashi (Independent editor and System Engineer)
Director           Yu Matsui (groovesync, inc.)
Director           Shinzi Yamane (Assistant professor at Aoyama gakuin University Human Innovation Research Center)
Director           Kenzi Matsubara (Zynga Japan K.K. CEO)
Inspector          Yusuke Takeuchi (LA CITADELLE LLC. President)
Inspector          Takayuki Itagaki