We provide cutting-edge approaches to all courses from diverse professional perspectives Our teachers have various backgrounds in ocean, civil engineering and power electronics fields.

• 

  Takeshi Kinoshita

  He holds a Ph.D. in Naval Architecture from the University of Tokyo and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo. Over the course of his career, he served as Professor at the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, Specially Appointed Professor in the Department of Oceanic Architecture and Engineering, College of Science and Technology, Nihon University, and President of the Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, before assuming his current role as Vice President of the Nagasaki Marine Industry Cluster Promotion Association. He also served as the founding Chairman of the Ocean Energy Association Japan. His field of expertise is marine engineering.

• 

  Masami Matsuura

  He holds an MSc in Naval Architecture from Yokohama National University. He began his career at the Research Institute of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., and later joined the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), before assuming his current role as Chief Coordinator of the Nagasaki Marine Industry Cluster Promotion Association. His areas of expertise are naval architecture and floating body dynamics. At JAMSTEC, he oversaw the development of deep-sea unmanned exploration vehicles, and he also supported the “Edokko No. 1 Project,” an initiative undertaken by small enterprises in downtown Tokyo.

• 

  Hiroshi Matsuo

  He holds a Master’s degree in Environmental and Ocean Engineering from the University of Tokyo. Following graduation, he spent ten years as a management consultant at Nomura Research Institute. In 2012, he returned from Tokyo to his hometown of Nagasaki to promote the introduction of marine renewable energies such as offshore wind and tidal power. He currently serves as Vice President and Executive Coordinator of the Nagasaki Marine Industry Cluster Promotion Association, where he supports a wide range of projects.
  Linkedin：https://www.linkedin.com/in/hiroshi-matsuo-03738991
  Facebook：https://www.facebook.com/hiroshi.matsuo.9

• 

  Ei-ichi Kobayashi

  He holds a Doctor of Engineering in Ship and Ocean Engineering from Osaka University and is Professor Emeritus at Kobe University. His research expertise lies in fluid analysis and floating body motion control. He began his career at the Research Institute of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., and later worked at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries of America, before joining Kobe University in 2002. Since his retirement in 2016, he has been contributing to the Nagasaki Marine Industry Cluster Promotion Association, where he is engaged in attracting international projects, developing demonstration fields, and fostering human resources for offshore wind power.

• 

  Toshiya Nakano

  He holds a Doctor of Science from Tohoku University. After serving as Director of the Office of Marine Prediction, Atmospheric and Oceanic Department, Japan Meteorological Agency, he was appointed Director of the Nagasaki Ocean Academy in April 2022. At the Japan Meteorological Agency, he was primarily engaged in marine meteorological observation, where he oversaw the analysis of long-term variations in the marine environment associated with climate change and global warming, based on data from the Agency’s observation vessels and numerical model outputs. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Southwest Branch of the Oceanographic Society of Japan and as a Meteorological Disaster Prevention Advisor.

• 

  Hiroaki Nagatomi

  He is originally from Nagasaki City, Nagasaki Prefecture. Over the course of 15 years at a regional bank, he oversaw large-scale projects in renewable energy, hotel development, and urban redevelopment. He also completed secondments to local governments and a major commercial bank, where he specialized in project finance for renewable energy. He currently serves as Administrative Director of NOA TRAINING and as a GWO training instructor, and he is actively engaged in the establishment of GWO training facilities.

• 

  Keita Yuasa

  He holds a Master’s degree from the Department of Marine Systems Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University (currently the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering), with a specialization in ship design. He began his career in basic planning at a major shipbuilding company and later undertook a secondment to a leading shipping company, where he contributed to research projects on merchant vessels as well as studies in renewable energy. He currently serves as a GWO training instructor and is responsible for the design of training-use Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) and offshore training towers.

• 

  Takashi Abe

  He is a Professor in the Division of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Nagasaki University. He holds a Ph.D. in Engineering. After completing his master’s degree at the Graduate School of Engineering, Nagasaki University, he began his academic career at the same university as an assistant, later serving as associate professor, and is now a full professor. His research focuses primarily on electrical machinery, power electronics, and control. From November 1991 to July 1992, he was a research fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin. He is a member of the IEEE, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, the Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan, the Japan Society of Biomedical Engineering, and the Japan Institute of Marine Engineering.

   

• 

  Yo-ichi Oda

  He served for approximately 31 years from April 1977 in the Mineral Resources Division of Mitsui & Co., Ltd., where he was engaged in new business development and related activities. From April 2008, he worked for about 10 years at the Mitsui & Co. Global Strategic Studies Institute, focusing on offshore wind power, ocean current and tidal power generation, and seabed resource development. Since October 2017, he has been serving as a Coordinator at the Organization for Marine Future Innovation, Nagasaki University.

  He is also a Visiting Professor at Nagoya University and has served in numerous governmental and academic committees, including: the Working Group for Offshore Wind Power and Marine Renewable Energy of the Advisory Council of the Headquarters for Ocean Policy of the Cabinet Office; the Committee on Next-Generation Deep-Sea Exploration Systems of the Council for Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology; the Innovation Promotion Program of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology; the Science, Technology and Innovation Subgroup of the Headquarters for Ocean Policy of the Cabinet Office; and the Peer Review Committee for the Strategic Innovation Creation Program on Innovative Deep-Sea Resource Exploration Technologies.

• 

  Nobumasa Matsui

  He is Professor at the Graduate School of Engineering, the Institute for Creation of New Technology, and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science, where he also serves as Director of the Division of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering at the Institute for Creation of New Technology. He is concurrently Vice President (Recruitment and Social Collaboration) and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the same university.

  He completed the Doctoral Course at the Graduate School of Production Science, Nagasaki University, and received his Doctor of Engineering degree. His research expertise lies in power energy, control, and systems engineering.

  He is a member of the IEEE, the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, and the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers.