About CERO
Our mission is to enable everyone to purchase and enjoy computer and video games free from concernes about content.
As the technology of game consoles advances and the age brackets of game consumers expand, computer and video games have been diversified both in content and expressions. Given this trend, social requirements have intensified, and a typical requirement is related to the influence that the content of a game may have on young people. To fulfill those social needs, the Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (abbreviated as CERO) was founded in June 2002. CERO is operated independently of any specific corporation or organization for the sake of fairness.
CERO was accredited as a specified nonprofit corporation by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in December 2003.
CERO was accredited as a specified nonprofit corporation by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in December 2003.
Overview
Name of organization
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Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (abbreviated as CERO)
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Objective
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The major objective of CERO is, as computer and video games are ever being diversified
following the development of the computer entertainment culture, to provide people in
general and game consumers with information necessary for them to select computer and
video games, help young people grow in a healthy and sound environment and maintain
society's ethical standards at a proper level by implementing age-appropriateness ratings for computer and video games.
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Activities
| ■Screening and rating computer and video games; recruiting and training/developing game raters.
■Conducting surveys and research on the computer/video games environment; improving and enhancing the rating system.
■Disseminating age-appropriateness rating system of computer and video games to the public and enlightening the public about the system.
■Communicating and cooperating with domestic and foreign organizations that aim to maintain society's ethical standards at a proper level.
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Membership
| Individuals and organizations that have consented to the objectives of CERO and are enrolled as members.
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Staff Office
| 4F Kanda Takano Building, 2-3-1, Kaji-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
TEL: 03-5289-7928 ( from outside of Japan +81-3-5289-7928 )
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The board of directors
| Title | Name | |
| Director General | Niro Shimada | Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court |
| Vice Director General | Sadanobu Morimoto | Computer Entertainment Rating Organization (Specified Nonprofit Corporation) |
| Director | Hiroko Goto | Professor at Law School, Chiba University |
| Director | Akira Sakamoto | Professor at Graduate School of Humanities and Sciences, Ochanomizu University |
| Director | Junichi Hamada | President of EIRIN (Firm Classification and Rating Organization) |
| Director | Hideki Hayakawa | Chairman of Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association |
| Auditor | Kiyoaki Kasahara | Certified Tax Accountant |
| Corporate Lawyer | Makoto Matsuo | Attorney-at-Law |
Bylaws (*Japanese)
 | CERO Bylaws (339KB) |