Masahisa Deguchi, Professor of Civil Procedural Law at Faculty of Law, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto/Japan. He studies at Chuo University and Freiburg University and got Master of Law (Keio University) and Doctor of Law (Freiburg University) through DAAD-Scholarship, Fellow of Alexander von Humboldt in Freiburg, Regensburg, Cologne, JaDe-Preis 2002, Bundesverdienstkreuz 2006, Vice President of IAPL (2007-2015).