Prof. Masashi Hojo, involved in electroanalytical, inorganic, and solution chemistry for forty years, graduated from the chemistry department of Kobe University in 1974, and received his MS and PhD degrees from Kyoto University. He joined the faculty of Kochi University in 1979 and obtained his full professor position in 2001. From 1982-1984 he was a research associate at the University of Calgary, Canada; from 1987-1988 a research associate at Texas A&M University; and in 1997 a visiting researcher at Monash University, Australia. He received the Shikata International Medal from the polarographic society of Japan in 2016. He has been cited in Marquis Who’s Who in the World since 1993 and Marquis Who’s Who in America since 2009.