Harumasa Sato is Professor of Economics at Konan University in Kobe, Japan. He teaches applied micro-economics, the economics of regulation, and telecommunications economics. He is a former Fulbright Scholar, and visited MIT's Department of Economics during 1989-90. As the Institute's Representative in Japan, Sato is the liaison between the Institute and Japanese universities, companies, and government, and assists CITI research on Japanese and Pacific Basin telecommunications. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at CITI, and was previously in the years 1994-1995, and 1990.