Committee

MNC 2026 COMMITTEE LIST
Organizing Committee
Chair	Atsushi Kohno (Fukuoka Univ.)
Vice Chair	Katsuhiko Nishiguchi (Yokohama Natl. Univ.)
Members	Jinho Ahn (Hanyang Univ.) Seiji Akita (Osaka Metropolitan Univ.) Hiroshi Arimoto (AIST) Koji Asakawa (Kioxia) Toyohiro Chikyow (NIMS) Kazuaki Furukawa (Meisei Univ.) Tetsuo Harada (Univ. of Hyogo) Toshiro Hiramoto (UTokyo) Toshiyuki Horiuchi (Tokyo Denki Univ.) Takanori Ichiki (UTokyo) Toshiro Itani (AIST) Toshiki Ito (Canon) Seiya Kasai (Hokkaido Univ.) Isao Kawata (imec Tokyo Office) Eun Kyu Kim (Hanyang Univ.) Jong Su Kim (Yeungnam Univ.) Daiyu Kondo (Fujitsu) Hidetoshi Kotera (Kyoto Univ.) Takahiro Kozawa (Osaka Univ.)	Masaru Kurihara (Hitachi) Akito Masuhara (Yamagata Univ.) Atsushi Miura (Kitami Inst. of Technol.) Seiji Nagahara (ASML Japan) Tomoki Nagai (JSR) Takashi Nagamine (Tokyo Ohka) Takahiro Namazu（Kyoto Univ. of Advanced Sci.) Yukinori Ochiai (UTokyo) Yukinori Ono (Shizuoka Univ.) Takashi Sato (Alitecs) Motofumi Suzuki (Kyoto Univ.) Kouichi Takase (Nihon Univ.) Ryo Takigawa (Kyushu Univ.) Hirofumi Tanaka (Kyushu Inst. of Technol.) Jun Taniguchi (Tokyo Univ. of Sci.) Toshiyuki Tsuchiya (Kyoto Univ.) Shigeyasu Uno (Ritsumeikan Univ.) Hiroshi Yamaguchi (NTT)
Advisory Board
Members	Yoshinobu Aoyagi (Ritsumeikan Univ.) Tanemasa Asano (Kyushu Univ.) Harold Chong (Univ. of Southampton) James Owen, Dphil (Zyvex Labs) Zahid Durrani (Imperial College London) Yasin Ekinci (PSI) Kenji Gamo (Emeritus, Osaka Univ.) L.R. Harriott (Univ. of Virginia) Yoshihiko Hirai (Emeritus, Osaka Metropolitan Univ.) Sunao Ishihara (Univ. of Tokyo) Koji Ishibashi (Formary RIKEN) Dieter Kern (Univ. of Tubingen) Harry J. Levinson (HJL Lithography) Shinji Matsui (Emeritus, Univ. of Hyogo) Rajesh Menon (The University of Utah) Suk-Ki Min (Emeritus, Kyung Hee Univ.)	Yasuyuki Miyamoto (Inst. of Science Tokyo) Masao Nagase (Tokushima Univ.) Nako Nakatsuka (EPFL) Shinji Okazaki (Alitecs) Stella W. Pang (City Univ. of Hong Kong) R.F.W. Pease (Stanford Univ.) Kurt Ronse (IMEC) Michael Roukes (Caltech) Shintaro Sato (Fujitsu) Jang-Kyoo Shin (Kyungpook Univ.) Richard M. Silver (Natl. Inst. for Standards and Technol.) Jack Skinner (Montana Tech) Seiichi Tagawa (Osaka Univ.) Yoshishige Tsuchiya (Univ. of Southampton) Stefan Wurm (SEMATECH) Qiangfei Xia (Univ. of Massachusetts)
Steering Committee
Chair	Hirofumi Tanaka (Kyushu Inst. of Technol.)
Vice Chair	Daiyu Kondo (Fujitsu)
Organizing	Atsushi Kohno (Fukuoka Univ.)	Katsuhiko Nishiguchi (Yokohama Natl. Univ.)
Program	Kouichi Takase (Nihon Univ.) Fumihiko Hirose (Yamagata Univ.)	Tetsuo Harada (Univ. of Hyogo) Shigeyasu Uno (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Local	Ryo Takigawa (Kyushu Univ.)
Web. Sponsor	Koji Asakawa (Kioxia) Tomoki Nagai (JSR) Takashi Nagamine (Tokyo Ohka)	Akito Masuhara (Yamagata Univ.) Atsushi Miura (Kitami Inst. of Technol.) Hironobu Taoka (Nihon Synopsys)
Overseas	Sung Woo Hwang (Samsung SDS) Cheng-Yao Lo (Natl. Tsing Hua Univ.)	Hong Yee Low (Singapore Univ. of Technol. and Design)
Program Committee
Chair	Kouichi Takase (Nihon Univ.)
Vice Chair	Fumihiko Hirose (Yamagata Univ.)	Shigeyasu Uno (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
	Tetsuo Harada (Univ. of Hyogo)
JJAP Editor	Shinjiro Hara (NIMS)
1-1: Advanced Lithography and Patterning
Section Head	Tetsuo Harada (Univ. of Hyogo)
Sub Head	Kentaro Mastsunaga (Kioxia)	Geert Vandenberghe (IMEC)
Members	James Bonafede (Cymer Japan) Wolfgang Demmerle (Synopsys, Germany)　 Yukihiro Fujimura (DNP)	Mark Maslow (ASML) Takeyoshi Ohashi (Hitachi) Naoya Sohara (Usio)

1-2: Electron and Ion Beam Technologies
Section Head	Keiichiro Hitomi (Hitachi)
Sub Head	Makoto Sakakibara (Hitachi High-Tech)	Kuen-Yu Tsai iNatl. Taiwan Univ.j
	Junichi Yanagisawa (Univ. of Shiga Pref.)
Members

1-3: Patterning Materials
Section Head	Toru Fujimori (Hitachi High-Tech)
Sub Head	Julius Santillan (AIST)
Members

2-1: Nanocarbon & 2D Materials
Section Head	Ryota Negishi (Toyo Univ.)
Sub Head	Haruka Omachi (Wakayama Medical Univ.)	Shinichiro Mouri (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Members

2-2: Nanodevices
Section Head	Sanguan Anantathanasarn (Furukawa FITEL)
Sub Head	Takahisa Tanaka (Keio Univ.)	Yuichiro Mitani (Tokyo City Univ.)
Members	Shigeo Asahi (Kobe Univ.) Shinjiro Hara (NIMS) Akio Higo (UTokyo) Yasuaki Ishikawa (Aoyama Gakuin Univ.) Nobuhiko Ozaki (Wakayama Univ.)	Munetoshi Seki (UTokyo) Kuniharu Takei (Hokkaido Univ.) Jun Tatebayashi (Osaka Univ.) Takeshi Yanagida (UTokyo)

2-3: Nanofabrication
Section Head	Tomohiro Shimizu (Kansai Univ.)
Sub Head	Katsuhiro Tomioka (Hokkaido Univ.)	Kazuki Nagashima (Hokkaido Univ.)
Members	Keisuke Arimoto (Yamanashi Univ.) Kazuhiko Endo (Tohoku Univ.) Takafumi Fujita (The Univ. of Osaka) Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (Waseda Univ.) Ryu Hasunuma (Tsukuba Univ.) Tsuyoshi Hatano (Nihon Univ.) Akiko Hirata (AIST) Masahiro Hori (Shizuoka Univ.)	Hideki Murakami (National Inst. of Technol., Kurume College) Akio Ohta (Fukuoka Univ.) Takeru Okada (Tohoku Univ.) Kouichi Takase (Nihon Univ.) Hirofumi Tanaka (Kyushu Inst. of Technol.) You Yin (Gunma Univ.) Yudi Darma (Inst. Teknologi Bandung)

2-4: Inorganic Nanomaterials
Section Head	Takao Shimizu (NIMS)
Sub Head	Kazuto Hatakeyama (Kumamoto Univ.)
Members

2-5: Organic Nanomaterials
Section Head	Ryohei Yamakado (Yamagata Univ.)
Sub Head	Yuya Ishizaki (Shinshu Univ.)
Members

2-6: Nano Surfaces, Interfaces, and Advanced Nano Metrology
Section Head	Osamu Kubo (Gifu Univ.)
Sub Head	Reo Kometani (UTokyo)
Members	Masayuki Abe (Osaka Univ.) Shoji Hotta (Hitachi High-Tech) Takayuki Hoshino (Nagoya Univ.) Takashi Ikuno (Tokyo Univ. of Sci.) Ryuzo Kawamura (Saitama Univ.) Naritaka Kobayashi (Univ. of Shiga Pref.)	Hiroki Miyazako (UTokyo) Hayato Sone (Gunma Univ.) Koji Sugano (Kobe Univ.) Yoshiaki Ukita (Univ. of Hyogo)

3: Nanoimprint, Hybrid-NIL, Biomimetics, and Functional Surfaces
Section Head	Toshiki Ito (Canon)
Sub Head	Yuji Hirai (Chitose Inst. of Sci. and Technol.) Heon Lee (Korea Univ.) Fu-Yuh Chang iNatl. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. and Technol.)	Hong Yee Low (Singapore Univ. of Technol. and Design) Michael Muhlberger (PROFACTOR GmbH)
Members

4: BioMEMS, Lab on a Chip, and Nanobiotechnology
Section Head	Takeo Miyake (Waseda Univ.)
Sub Head	Mana Toma (Science Tokyo)	Toshinori Fujie (Science Tokyo)
Members	Kazuaki Furukawa (Meisei Univ.) Akihide Hibara (Science Tokyo) Shinya Kumagai (Meijo Univ.) Akira Matsumoto (Science Tokyo)	Atsushi Miura (Kitami Inst. of Technol.) Hiroaki Takehara (UTokyo) Ryugo Tero (Toyohashi Univ. of Technol.) Shigeyasu Uno (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

5: Microsystem Technology and MEMS
Section Head	Toru Nakakubo (Canon)
Sub Head	Kentaro Iwami (Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture and Technol.)	Daisuke Yamane (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Members	Yoshihiro Hasegawa (Hiroshima City Univ.) Kei Masunishi (Toshibas) Shugo Miyake (Setsunan Univ.) Sumito Nagasawa (Shibaura Inst. of Technol.)	Hirokazu Nakazawa (Mirise Technologies) Taiyu Okatani (Tokyo Denki Univ.) Ryo Takigawa (Kyushu Univ.)

6: Atomic Layer Processing (ALP)
Section Head	Shigeo Yasuhara (Japan Advanced Chemicals)
Sub Head	Fumihiko Hirose (Yamagata Univ.) Daisuke Ohori (Kansai Univ.) Jiyoung Kim (Univ. of Texas)	Takashi Onaya (NIMS) Myung Mo Sung (Hanyang Univ.)@
Members	Hiroshi Arimoto (AIST) Christian Dussarrat (Air Liquide Labs.) Kenji Ishikawa (Nagoya Univ.) Kazuhiro Karahashi (Nagoya Univ.) Naoto Kameda (Meidensha) Yasutaka Matsuo (Hokkaido Univ.) Fumikazu Mizutani (Kojundo Chemical Lab.)	Hiroto Ohtake (AMAT) Norifusa Sato (NIMS) Jin-Seong Park (Hanyang Univ.） Koichi Tokudome (Tosoh) Noriyuki Uchida (AIST)