The ART FAIR TOKYO Committee Executive has announced that Misa Shin, Executive Director of ART FAIR TOKYO since 2005, will be stepping down at the end of May 2010. Shin has directed a total of four editions of ART FAIR TOKYO, since her appointment as Executive Director in November 2005. During this time, her aims have been to encourage the development of an art market in Japan and to create a truly international art fair in Tokyo. Now, it is the turn of Takahiro Kaneshima, who has been appointed as the new Executive Director of ART FAIR TOKYO as of June 1, 2010. For the last five years, Kaneshima has been active in the East Asian art scene, particularly in the field of support-activities for artists and the management and coordination of many art projects.