July 4, 2013
Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy
INPEX CORPORATION

Establishment of INPEX Endowed Chair for Management of Energy Business at theHitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy

The Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy (ICS) and
INPEX CORPORATION (INPEX) hereby announce the establishment of the INPEX endowedchair for Management of Energy Business at ICS for a period of three years beginning in August
2013.
The objective of this endowed chair is to study how energy businesses can be managed byexamining a wide range of topics such as management of technology, risk management, supply
chain management, financing, and government relations, which are all critical to understand inorder to conduct oil, gas and alternative energy businesses on an global scale. These issues areusually discussed from a macroeconomic and geopolitical point of view. This endowed chair isthe first of its kind among Japanese business schools to address these issues from the point ofview of the corporation.
Professor Ryuji Yasuda of ICS and Counselor Noboru Tezuka of INPEX (INPEX Chaired
Professor of ICS), are jointly in charge of the course and management of the overall program forthe chair. Lectures will be given not only by ICS faculty members, but also officials from energy
related ministries, various governmental agencies and institutions, and business persons fromtrading firms, electric power companies, and other enterprises involved in the energy industry. In
the second and the third years of the chair research papers will be published on some selected
themes from the topics to be covered in the course. Occasional symposia are planned which will
be open to the public.
ICS was established in April 1998 as one of the first professional graduate schools in Japan toinstitute a world-class business curriculum providing an education that would attract numerous
students from around the world. It engages in advanced and specialized education in the threeprofessional fields of International Business Strategy, Financial Strategy, and Business Law, andemphasizes the development of human resources capable of making a contribution to society on aglobal scale. The program in International Business Strategy, to which this chair belongs, offers
an MBA course that is conducted entirely in English with more than 70 percent of the studentsenrolled coming from outside Japan.

INPEX is Japan’s largest oil and natural gas exploration and production company, carrying out
oil and natural gas projects both in and outside Japan. Through the cooperation of ICS, INPEX
hopes to deepen the professional understanding of the energy business. INPEX supports thedevelopment of human resources who can make a positive contribution to a stable supply ofenergy and, thereby, to the development of society itself. The concept of “a global company thatdevelops human resources” aligns with one of the key CSR policies that INPEX addresses in itsmedium-to long-term vision.

Media Contacts:
Administration Office, Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of International Corporate Strategy
Tel: 03-4212-3000
Public Relations Group, Corporate Communications Unit, INPEX CORPORATION
Tel: 03-5572-0233