Tomomi Sato
Professor of the Faculty of Human Informatics at Aichi Shukutoku University, Japan. After earning her Ph.D. at The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, she served as Assistant Professor at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies and as a full-time lecturer at the Department of Child Development, Tokai Gakuin University before assuming her current post. She specializes in educational technology, early childhood education and care, communication within the family, and learning environment design.
She is also a board member of the Steering Committee of the Japanese Society of Child Science. She won the 5th Kids Design Award for developing an online story-telling app called "Oyako-de-monogatari [parent-child story telling]," the 8th Award for organizing the "Workshop of Making Video Letter for the Future Child," and the 11th Award for developing a "Family Portfolio that supports Family Interaction."

Sachiko Kitano
Professor of Early Childhood Care and Education in the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University. She is currently the Vice-president of Pacific Early Childhood Education Research Association (PECERA), the chairperson of PECERA Japan, the member of the executive board of Japan Society of Research on ECCE, Japanese Society for the Education of Young Children, International Association of Early Childhood Education, etc. In 2001, she received her Ph.D in education from Hiroshima University. After teaching at Hiroshima International University and the University of Teacher Education Fukuoka, she is now a professor at Kobe University.

Miwako Hoshi
Professor Emerita of Jumonji University, and Nagoya University of Arts. Specializes in developmental psychology. Her research includes Japan-France collaborative research in the transmission of cultural value from teachers to infants, research of communication among infants, and on ECEC in Pistoia, Italy, all based in the field of childcare facilities. She also took part in a four-country research project on childrearing and childrearing-support, and was also involved in the Japanese translations of the first, second, and third editions of Starting Strong, OECD's reports on ECEC. Completed a Ph.D. program without dissertation in Educational Psychology, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo.