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Contribution and Achievment by Japan

Host of the General Assembly of IMU

11th GA in Kobe, August 18-19, 1990

Host of Meetings of the IMU Executive Committee

1990 Kobe
2016 Kyoto

Host of the ICM

ICM-1990 in Kyoto, August 21-29, 1990
President of the ICM : Hikosaburo Komatsu

IMU Executive Committee

1952-1954 Shōkichi Iyanaga
1967-1970 Kōsaku Yosida
1971-1974 Yukiyosi Kawada
1979-1982 Masayoshi Nagata
1983-1986 Shigeru Mizohata
1987-1990 Hikosaburo Komatsu
1991-1994 Hikosaburo Komatsu
1995-1998 Shigefumi Mori (Vice-President)
1999-2002 Shigefumi Mori (Vice-President)
2003-2006 Masaki Kashiwara (Vice-President)
2015-2018 Shigefumi Mori (President)
2019-2022 Shigefumi Mori (Ex-Officio, Past President)
2023-2026 Hiraku Nakajima (President)

IMU Nominating Committee

2006 Shigefumi Mori
2014 Masaki Kashiwara
2018 Shigefumi Mori

ICMI Executive Committee

1959-1962 Yasuo Akizuki
1963-1966 Yasuo Akizuki
1971-1974 Shōkichi Iyanaga (Vice-President)
1975-1978 Shōkichi Iyanaga (President)
1975-1978 Yukiyoshi Kawada
1987-1990 Hiroshi Fujita
1999-2002 Yukihiko Namikawa

Commissions on Development and Exchange

1991-1994 Takushiro Ochiai

Committee for Women in Mathematics

2019-2022 Motoko Kotani

Committee on Electronic Information and Communication

2023-2026 Takashi Kumagai

International Congress of Mathematicians

1970    Nice, France
  Consultive Committee : Kōsaku Yosida
1978    Helsinki, Finland
  Consultive Committee : Yukiyosi Kawada
1990    Kyoto, Japan
 
Consultive Committee : Heisuke Hironaka
  Masaki Kashiwara
  Sigeru Mizohata
1994    Zurich, Switzeland
  Program Committee : Mikio Sato
1998    Berlin, Germany
  Program Committee : Michio Jimbo
2002    Beijing, China
  Program Committee : Tetsuji Miwa
2006    Madrid, Spain
 
Program Committee : Kenji Fukaya
Sectional Panels : Yoshikazu Giga
  Haruzo Hida
  Kazuya Kato
  Shigeo Kusuoka
  Shigeru Mukai
  Hiraku Nakajima
  Tomotada Ohtsuki
  Masahisa Tabata
  Michio Yano
2010    Hyderabad, India
Sectional Panels : Michio Jimbo
  Masaki Kashiwara
  Shigeyuki Morita
Yoshio Tsutsumi
  Michio Yano
2014    Seoul, Korea
Sectional Panels : Lars Hesselholt
  Michio Jimbo
  Yujiro Kawamata
  Shigeo Kusuoka
Kaoru Ono
Mitsuhiro Shishikura
Toshikazu Sunada
2018    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
Program Committee : Hiraku Nakajima
Sectional Panels : Kazuo Habiro
  Ko Honda
  Tetsuji Miwa
  Narutaka Ozawa
  Kyoji Saito
  Takeshi Saito
  Takeshi Tsuji
  Masato Tsujii
2022    Helsinki, Finland
 
Structure Committee : Hiraku Nakajima
Program Committee : Mikhail Kapranov
Sectional Panels : Tomoyuki Arakawa
  Toshiyuki Kobayashi
  Takashi Kumagai
  Hiroshi Matano
  Narutaka Ozawa
  Shuji Saito

Fields Medal Committee

1936 Teiji Takagi
1962 Kōsaku Yosida
1970 Shōkichi Iyanaga
1974 Kunihiko Kodaira
1982 Huzihiro Araki
1986 Kiyosi Itô
1990 Kenkichi Iwasawa
1994 Masaki Kashiwara
1998 Kyoji Saito
2002 Yasutaka Ihara
2014 Kenji Fukaya
2018 Shigefumi Mori (Chair)

Nevanlinna Prize Committee

1994 Masaya Yamaguti

Gauss Prize Committee

2018 Motoko Kotani

Leelavati Prize Committee

2018 Shihoko Ishii
2022 Tadashi Tokieda

Chern Medal Committee

2018 Michio Jimbo
2022 Hiraku Nakajima

Fields Medalists

1954 Kunihiko Kodaira
1970 Heisuke Hironaka
1990 Shigefumi Mori

Gauss Prize Winner

2006 Kiyosi Itô

Chern Medalist

2018 Masaki Kashiwara

References

Olli Lehto, "MATHEMATICS Without Borders, A History of the International Mathematical Union," Springer, 1998.
IMU website https://www.mathunion.org/