Shunichi ASAI

Career

In 1974, he joined Rohto Pharmaceutical and worked in quality control, pharmaceutical affairs, and quality assurance for a total of 38 years. 
After retirement,  he was engaged in quality assurance at an API plant in China and a pharmaceutical contractor in Japan until 2018.
In China, he gave lectures on "Japanese Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance System under the New Pharmaceutical Affairs Law" and "Quality Requirements of APIs for Export to Japan", and wrote a series of articles on "Perspectives on Quality Assurance of Chinese APIs" for the NMPA-led "Pharmaceutical Economic Journal".
Currently, as a GMP consultant, he is working on themes such as "human error countermeasures in pharmaceutical plants," "ensuring quality and stable supply of overseas APIs," "ensuring reliability of GMP records," "revitalizing organizational communication," and "ensuring worker motivation.”