prepared by Ms. Kaneko, Ms. Miki Arima, and Mr. Christopher Cade Mosley. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to them as well. Finally, we would like to express our respect to all the authors for their great work. We hope this report will contribute to worldwide efforts to identify statelessness which would in turn help resolve the issues of statelessness. Representing the Editors, Ayane Odagawa Sosuke Seki 5