Members of SRF preparatory committee and board of directors
| Name | Prep committee | Board of directors | Published title | Titles shared with foreign cigarette makers |
| Shigeya Yoshise 吉瀬維哉 | Member (Chairman)* | Director 理事 | President of Japan Development Bank 日本開発銀行総裁 | ‘Ex Administrative Vice Minister of Finance’ |
| Hideo Katsuki 香月秀雄 | Chairman (Member)* | Director General 理事長 | President of Open University 放送大学学長 | ‘Advisor to the Council for the Study of Smoking and Health’ (see table 3) |
| Kunio Ota 太田邦夫 | Member | Director | President of the Japanese Association of Medical Sciences 日本医学会会長 | ‘First chairman, the Council for the Study of Smoking and Health’ |
| Wataru Mori 森亘 | Member | – | – | ‘Chancellor, The University of Tokyo’ |
| Masamitsu Oshima 大島正光 | Member | Director | Director General, Medical Information Systems Development Center 医療情報システム開発センター理事長 | ‘Chairman, Japan Society of Health Sciences’ |
| Masaaki Kato 加藤正明 | Member | Director | Emeritus Professor at Tokyo Medical College 東京医科大学名誉教授 | ‘Director General, Stress Committee [probably of health/labor ministries]’ |
| Toru Inagawa 稲川徹 | Member | Director | President of Nippon Filter Co. Ltd. 日本フィルター工業会会長 | ‘Director, […] TASC [probably Tobacco Academic Studies Center]’ |
| Shuji Konishi 小西秀次 | Member | Director | Chairman of Kirin Brewery Co. 麒麟麦酒株式会社代表取締役会長 | ‘Executive director, The Federation of Economic Organizations’ |
| Tadayuki Ishii 石井忠順 | Member | Director | Vice President of JT JT代表取締役副社長 | – |
| Minoru Nagaoka 長岡實 | Member | Director | President of JT JT代表取締役社長 | – |
| Takeji Kato 加藤威二 | Member | Director | Director of Tokyo Welfare Annuity Hall, Employees’ Pension Insurance Welfare Corp. 厚生団東京厚生年金会館館長 | ‘Ex Administrative Vice Minister of Health and Welfare’ |
| Hiroshi Mizunuma 水沼寛 | – | Managing Director 専務理事 | Councilor of Japan Society of Health Sciences 日本健康科学学会評議員 | ‘Former Chief Manager, Clinic, Japan Tobacco Inc.’ |
Board of directors membership is from SRF’s 1986 Program Outline.20 Quotes in the far-right column are from internal documents of Philip Morris,51 Brown & Williamson94 and Reynolds.95
*According to documents sent to Philip Morris and Brown & Williamson, the chairman of the preparatory committee was Shigeya Yoshise; SRF, however, listed Katsuki as chair (daihyō).20