I might be mistake here but I believe yes, and that his name is Kuniaki Iwanami. There’s a profile on the site (http://www.layton.jp/lady-layton/) but I can’t tell you what it says. They brought him out on stage during the presentation to demo one of the puzzles - you’re given the equation 5 + 1, and asked to find a…

Not sure if it means anything, but the trademark which leaked the name (“Lady Layton”) was European. Also, not a single Layton title hasn’t made it overseas, so I think we should be fine.

She’s not a professor. She’s a detective (which means for once it actually makes sense to hire her for the job!). “Lady Layton” comes from a joke in the trailer where she says she’s not an English gentleman, but an English lady, to people expecting to meet her father.