Akira Asakura, Dr. Sci., is the President of The Crustacean Society (2010-2011) and Secretary General of the TCS Summer Meeting in Tokyo, Japan, in 2009. He is a Senior Researcher at the Natural History Museum & Institute in Chiba, Japan.

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