EXPERTS

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RESEARCH DIRECTOR

• Takero Doi
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Takero Doi

  Areas of Expertise

  • Public economics
  • fiscal policy
  • taxation
  • social security
  • income distribution

  Research Program

  • Economic Analysis of Personal Income Tax Reform

• Keiko Fujisawa
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Keiko Fujisawa

  Areas of Expertise

  • Developmental psychology
  • childcare environment

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Quality of Education on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

• Junji Hashimoto
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Junji Hashimoto

  Areas of Expertise

  • Water environment
  • water infrastructure
  • climate change and disasters
  • environmental education

  Research Program

  • Future Vision for Sustainable Water Management

• Yuichi Hosoya
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Yuichi Hosoya

  Areas of Expertise

  • Political science
  • theory and history of international relations
  • contemporary European history

  Research Program

  • Historical Analysis ( –2021)
  • Historical Analysis (2021–2022)

• Nobuo Iizuka
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Nobuo Iizuka

  Areas of Expertise

  • Japanese economy
  • economic forecasting
  • economic statistics

  Research Program

  • Economic Data and Evidence-Based Policymaking

• Miwa Ishihara
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Miwa Ishihara

  Areas of Expertise

  • Nursing policy
  • nursing management
  • community-based integrated care system
  • infection control

  Research Program

  • Improving Accessibility of Home-visit Nursing Services

• Shigeki Kaizuka
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Shigeki Kaizuka

  Areas of Expertise

  • History of Japanese education
  • theory of moral education

  Research Program

  • Redefining the Teacher as a High-Level Professional: With a View to Ensuring Both Quantity and Quality

• Sota Kato
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Sota Kato

  Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative political economy
  • political methodology (formal modeling, machine learning)
  • Japanese politics

  Research Program

  • Future Design: Research on Decision-Making Methods for Intergenerational Sustainability ( –2021)
  • Plans for Sustainable and Politically Acceptable Fiscal Consolidation and Social Insurance Reform from the Perspectives of Behavioral Economics and Political Science
  • Contingency Plans for a Potential Financial Crisis

• Atsuo Kishimoto
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Atsuo Kishimoto

  Areas of Expertise

  • Risk studies
  • science and technology studies
  • ELSI (ethical, legal, and social issues)

  Research Program

  • Reconstructing the Science and Technology Policy System

• Keiichiro Kobayashi
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Keiichiro Kobayashi

  Areas of Expertise

  • Macroeconomics
  • financial crises
  • economic philosophy

  Research Program

  • Quantitative Analysis of Epidemics and Economic Implications ( –2023)
  • Future Design: Research on Decision-Making Methods for Intergenerational Sustainability ( –2021)
  • Plans for Sustainable and Politically Acceptable Fiscal Consolidation and Social Insurance Reform from the Perspectives of Behavioral Economics and Political Science

• Fumiaki Kubo
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Fumiaki Kubo

  Areas of Expertise

  US political and diplomatic history, modern American parties, policy making, US foreign policy

• Yukio Maeda
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Yukio Maeda

  Areas of Expertise

  • Elections
  • public opinion
  • data sharing and preservation

  Research Program

  • Plans for Sustainable and Politically Acceptable Fiscal Consolidation and Social Insurance Reform from the Perspectives of Behavioral Economics and Political Science

• Mina Matsumoto
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Mina Matsumoto

  Areas of Expertise

  • Education
  • labor
  • social security

  Research Program

  • Redefining the Teacher as a High-Level Professional: With a View to Ensuring Both Quantity and Quality

• Hiroaki Miyata
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Hiroaki Miyata

  Areas of Expertise

  • Data science
  • scientific methodology
  • value co-creation

  Research Program

  • Health System Innovation in the Post-COVID Era
  • Development of Well-Being Indicators and Policy Packages

• Shigeki Morinobu
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Shigeki Morinobu

  Areas of Expertise

  • Tax and fiscal policy
  • local finances

  Research Program

  • The History of Japan’s Consumption Tax: An Archive of Key Events and Documents ( –2021)
  • Assessing the Integrated Reform of Tax and Social Security Systems in Japan (2021–2022)
  • Digitalization of the Economy and International Taxation
  • Assessing the Integrated Reform of Tax and Social Security Systems in Japan 2

• Michio Murakami
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Michio Murakami

  Areas of Expertise

  • Risk science
  • sanitary engineering
  • urban engineering

  Research Program

  • Future Vision for Sustainable Water Management

• Makiko Nakamuro
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Makiko Nakamuro

  Areas of Expertise

  • Educational economics

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Quality of Education on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

• Kazumasa Oguro
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Kazumasa Oguro

  Areas of Expertise

  • Public finance
  • social security
  • public economics
  • generational gap
  • population problems

  Research Program

  • Contingency Plans for a Potential Financial Crisis

• Fumio Ohtake
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Fumio Ohtake

  Areas of Expertise

  • Behavioral economics
  • labor economics

  Research Program

  • Plans for Sustainable and Politically Acceptable Fiscal Consolidation and Social Insurance Reform from the Perspectives of Behavioral Economics and Political Science

• Taikan Oki
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Taikan Oki

  Areas of Expertise

  • Global hydrology
  • global water resources
  • climate change
  • sustainable development

  Research Program

  • Future Vision for Sustainable Water Management

• Kohei Onozaki
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Kohei Onozaki

  Areas of Expertise

  • Healthcare policy
  • health system sustainability
  • healthcare industry
  • leadership development

  Research Program

  • Developing Sustainable and Resilient Health, Nursing, and Long-Term Care Systems in the Post-COVID Era
  • Health System Innovation in the Post-COVID Era

• Erika Ota
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Erika Ota

  Areas of Expertise

  • Global health nursing
  • global health policy studies
  • maternal and child health
  • epidemiology
  • systematic review

  Research Program

  • Using Health Metrics to Monitor and Evaluate the Impact of Health Policies

• Motohiro Sato
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Motohiro Sato

  Areas of Expertise

  • Local public finance
  • Optimal taxation theory, tax reform
  • Social security, health economics

  Research Program

  • Plans for Sustainable and Politically Acceptable Fiscal Consolidation and Social Insurance Reform from the Perspectives of Behavioral Economics and Political Science

• Kenji Shibuya
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Kenji Shibuya

  Areas of Expertise

  • Global health
  • epidemiology
  • statistics
  • health economics
  • health policy

  Research Program

  • Developing Sustainable and Resilient Health, Nursing, and Long-Term Care Systems in the Post-COVID Era

• Hideaki Shiroyama
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Hideaki Shiroyama

  Areas of Expertise

  • Public administration
  • science/technology and public policy
  • international public administration

  Research Program

  • Reconstructing the Science and Technology Policy System

• Osamu Sudoh
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Osamu Sudoh

  Areas of Expertise

  • Informatics
  • machine learning
  • data science
  • self-organization of social systems

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Digital Transformation on Japanese Social Structure

• Kazuto Suzuki
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Kazuto Suzuki

  Areas of Expertise

  • International political economy
  • science, technology, and security
  • space policy

  Research Program

  • Reconstructing the Science and Technology Policy System

• Kiyosu Taniguchi
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Kiyosu Taniguchi

  Areas of Expertise

  • Pediatric infectious diseases
  • infectious disease epidemiology
  • surveillance
  • international health

  Research Program

  • Developing Sustainable and Resilient Health, Nursing, and Long-Term Care Systems in the Post-COVID Era
  • Establishing Health System Resilience to Tackle the Health Security Crisis

• Masaharu Tsubokura
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Masaharu Tsubokura

  Areas of Expertise

  • Local public health
  • disaster prevention measures
  • radiation exposure
  • hematology

  Research Program

  • Establishing Health System Resilience to Tackle the Health Security Crisis

• Shintaro Yamaguchi
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  • RESEARCH DIRECTOR
  • Shintaro Yamaguchi

  Areas of Expertise

  • Labor economics
  • family economics
  • economics of education

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Quality of Education on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

SENIOR FELLOW

• Nobuyasu Atago
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Nobuyasu Atago

  Areas of Expertise

  Macroeconomics, monetary policy, economic forecasting

  Research Program

  • Contingency Plans for a Potential Financial Crisis

• Charles Crabtree
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Charles Crabtree

  Areas of Expertise

  • Discrimination
  • American and Japanese politics

  Research Program

  • Strategies for Technological Innovation and Economic Revitalization in the New Era of Global Competition

• Keisuke Ejima
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Keisuke Ejima

  Areas of Expertise

  • Mathematical modeling
  • infectious diseases
  • obesity and nutritional epidemiology

  Research Program

  • Establishing Health System Resilience to Tackle the Health Security Crisis

• Takanori Fujita
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Takanori Fujita

  Areas of Expertise

  • Medical law
  • medical policy
  • medical information
  • medical AI
  • medical data
  • online medical care

  Research Program

  • Health System Innovation in the Post-COVID Era

• Akiko Fukushima
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Akiko Fukushima

  Areas of Expertise

  • International relations theory
  • international security

• Hideo Hayakawa
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Hideo Hayakawa

  Areas of Expertise

  • Japanese economy
  • monetary and fiscal policy
  • economic thought

  Research Program

  • Economic Policy Regime in the Post-COVID-19 Era ( –2023)
  • Economic Policy Regime after Global Inflation

• Hikaru Hiranuma
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Hikaru Hiranuma

  Areas of Expertise

  • Natural resources and energy issues
  • environment

  Research Program

  • The Blue Economy: International Trends and the Situation in Japan ( –2021)
  • Japan’s Response to an Accelerating Global Energy Transition (2021–2022)
  • Advancing Renewable Energy Initiatives through Local Ownership
  • The Blue Economy: International Trends and the Situation in Japan—A Follow-Up
  • Japan’s Response to an Accelerating Global Energy Transition—A Follow-Up

• Hideaki Hirata
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Hideaki Hirata

  Areas of Expertise

  • International macroeconomics and finance
  • international linkages of economic and financial variables
  • macroeconomics in Japan
  • financing in Japan

  Research Program

  • Economic Data and Evidence-Based Policymaking

• Yoshiki Ishikawa
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Yoshiki Ishikawa

  Areas of Expertise

  • Well-being

  Research Program

  • Development of Well-Being Indicators and Policy Packages

• Ken Jimbo
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Ken Jimbo

  Areas of Expertise

  International and Asia-Pacific security, East Asian regionalism, Japan’s foreign and security policy

• Ayako Kato
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Ayako Kato

  Areas of Expertise

  • Information policy
  • information society
  • personal data and privacy

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Digital Transformation on Japanese Social Structure

• Long Ke
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Long Ke

  Areas of Expertise

  • Development finance
  • Chinese economy

  Research Program

  • Managing the Risk of RMB Internationalization and Digitalization (2021–2022)
  • Pre- and Post-COVID Chinese Society, Economy, and Politics

• Masanori Kobayashi
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Masanori Kobayashi

  Areas of Expertise

  • Sustainability policy
  • natural resource management
  • blue economy
  • ocean governance

• Yasuyuki Komaki
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Yasuyuki Komaki

  Areas of Expertise

  • Macroeconomics
  • real-time data
  • economic policy
  • regional economy

  Research Program

  • Economic Data and Evidence-Based Policymaking

• Akio Kurokawa
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Akio Kurokawa

  Areas of Expertise

  • Public policy
  • healthcare innovation policy
  • science
  • technology and innovation policy
  • science for policy

  Research Program

  • Reconstructing the Science and Technology Policy System

• Kenji Kushida
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Kenji Kushida

  Areas of Expertise

  • Information technology innovation
  • Silicon Valley’s economic ecosystem
  • Japan's startup ecosystem
  • Japan’s political economic transformation
  • Fukushima nuclear disaster

  Research Program

  • Strategies for Technological Innovation and Economic Revitalization in the New Era of Global Competition

• Hiroaki Kuwajima
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Hiroaki Kuwajima

  Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate strategy
  • corporate transformation
  • open innovation
  • dynamic capability
  • entrepreneurial leadership
  • industrial clusters

  Research Program

  • Strategies for Technological Innovation and Economic Revitalization in the New Era of Global Competition

• Sanae Matsunaga
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Sanae Matsunaga

  Areas of Expertise

  • Infection control
  • international nursing
  • nursing skills

  Research Program

  • Improving Accessibility of Home-visit Nursing Services

• Makiko Matsuo
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Makiko Matsuo

  Areas of Expertise

  • Governance research (global governance / risk governance / governance of science and technology)
  • ELSI (Ethical, Legal, Social Implications/Issues)
  • biotechnology, food safety

  Research Program

  • Reconstructing the Science and Technology Policy System

• Kazutaka Matsuzaki
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Kazutaka Matsuzaki

  Areas of Expertise

  • Software engineering
  • industrial control system security

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Digital Transformation on Japanese Social Structure

• Takuho Mitsunaga
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Takuho Mitsunaga

  Areas of Expertise

  • Cyber security
  • data science
  • computer science

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Digital Transformation on Japanese Social Structure

• Takuhiro Moromizato
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Takuhiro Moromizato

  Areas of Expertise

  • Decision analysis (health technology assessment)
  • clinical epidemiology
  • biostatistics
  • machine learning & artificial intelligence

  Research Program

  • Using Health Metrics to Monitor and Evaluate the Impact of Health Policies
  • Establishing Health System Resilience to Tackle the Health Security Crisis

• Shinichiro Nakamura
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Shinichiro Nakamura

  Areas of Expertise

  • Land and infrastructure design
  • water resources manegement
  • hydrology

  Research Program

  • Future Vision for Sustainable Water Management

• Shuhei Nomura
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Shuhei Nomura

  Areas of Expertise

  • Biostatistics
  • global health policy
  • burden of disease
  • comparative risk assessment
  • disaster risk management
  • official development assistance

  Research Program

  • Developing Sustainable and Resilient Health, Nursing, and Long-Term Care Systems in the Post-COVID Era
  • Using Health Metrics to Monitor and Evaluate the Impact of Health Policies

• Yoshihiro Otsuka
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Yoshihiro Otsuka

  Areas of Expertise

  • Business cycle analysis
  • Bayesian econometrics
  • spatiotemporal econometrics

  Research Program

  • Economic Data and Evidence-Based Policymaking

• Md. Mizanur Rahman
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Md. Mizanur Rahman

  Areas of Expertise

  • Development and implementation of innovative approaches in public health
  • maternal and child health
  • healthcare financial risk management
  • policy formulation

  Research Program

  • Using Health Metrics to Monitor and Evaluate the Impact of Health Policies
  • Rethinking Global Health Policy in the Post-COVID Era

• Haruka Sakamoto
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Haruka Sakamoto

  Areas of Expertise

  • Global health
  • health system

  Research Program

  • Developing Sustainable and Resilient Health, Nursing, and Long-Term Care Systems in the Post-COVID Era
  • Rethinking Global Health Policy in the Post-COVID Era

• Michiru Sasagawa
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Michiru Sasagawa

  Areas of Expertise

  • Water circulation
  • rainwater utilization
  • landscape design
  • environmental education

  Research Program

  • Future Vision for Sustainable Water Management

• Daisuke Sato
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Daisuke Sato

  Areas of Expertise

  • Health economic evaluation
  • healthcare informatics
  • hospital management

  Research Program

  • Health System Innovation in the Post-COVID Era

• Takashi Shimizu
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Takashi Shimizu

  Areas of Expertise

  • Corporate systems
  • corporate behavior
  • law and business

• Takahiro Tabuchi
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Takahiro Tabuchi

  Areas of Expertise

  • Public health
  • epidemiology
  • tobacco control
  • health disparities

  Research Program

  • Using Health Metrics to Monitor and Evaluate the Impact of Health Policies

• Hisateru Tachimori
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Hisateru Tachimori

  Areas of Expertise

  • Epidemiology
  • biostatistics
  • mental health
  • policy evaluation

  Research Program

  • Development of Well-Being Indicators and Policy Packages

• Yasuharu Tokuda
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  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Yasuharu Tokuda

  Areas of Expertise

  • Clinical epidemiology
  • clinical medicine
  • medical education
  • clinical reasoning
  • health services research

  Research Program

  • Establishing Health System Resilience to Tackle the Health Security Crisis

• Kiyoteru Tsutsui
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Kiyoteru Tsutsui

  Areas of Expertise

  • Global and transnational sociology
  • political sociology
  • comparative historical sociology
  • social movements, human rights
  • Japanese society
  • organizations and economic sociology
  • quantitative methods

  Research Program

  • Strategies for Technological Innovation and Economic Revitalization in the New Era of Global Competition

• Kiyotada Tsutsui
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Kiyotada Tsutsui

  Areas of Expertise

  • Contemporary Japanese politics and culture
  • political-military relations
  • human resources development, cultural policy

• Satoshi Urasawa
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Satoshi Urasawa

  Areas of Expertise

  • Business-cycle fluctuations
  • GDP nowcasting
  • economic policy

  Research Program

  • Economic Data and Evidence-Based Policymaking

• Atsushi Watanabe
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Atsushi Watanabe

  Areas of Expertise

  • Conservation, restoration, and sustainable use of coastal environment
  • blue economy

• Chitose Watanabe
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Chitose Watanabe

  Areas of Expertise

  • Nursing administration
  • nursing informatics
  • wound, ostomy & continence management

  Research Program

  • Improving Accessibility of Home-visit Nursing Services

• Yasumasa Yamamoto
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Yasumasa Yamamoto

  Areas of Expertise

  • Biostatistics
  • global health
  • fintech
  • artificial intelligence

  Research Program

  • Strategies for Technological Innovation and Economic Revitalization in the New Era of Global Competition

• Nariyasu Yamasawa
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Nariyasu Yamasawa

  Areas of Expertise

  • Economic statistics
  • economic forecasting
  • economic analysis

  Research Program

  • Economic Data and Evidence-Based Policymaking

• Daisuke Yoneoka
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Daisuke Yoneoka

  Areas of Expertise

  • Biostatistics
  • machine learning
  • theoretical epidemiology
  • spatial statistics
  • public health

  Research Program

  • Using Health Metrics to Monitor and Evaluate the Impact of Health Policies

• Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi
  • 
  • SENIOR FELLOW
  • Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi

  Areas of Expertise

  • Management of technology
  • science, technology, and innovation policy

  Research Program

  • Reconstructing the Science and Technology Policy System

RESEARCH FELLOW

• Shinsuke Asakawa
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Shinsuke Asakawa

  Areas of Expertise

  • Labor economics
  • economics of education

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Quality of Education on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

• Naoko Eto
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Naoko Eto

  Areas of Expertise

  • East Asian affairs
  • contemporary Chinese politics
  • Japan-China relations

  Research Program

  • Pre- and Post-COVID Chinese Society, Economy, and Politics

• Taiyo Fukai
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Taiyo Fukai

  Areas of Expertise

  • Labor economics
  • program evaluation
  • social security policy
  • institutional economics

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Quality of Education on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

• Tomoyuki Fukumoto
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Tomoyuki Fukumoto

  Areas of Expertise

  • Chinese finance
  • Chinese macroeconomy
  • Asian economy
  • monetary policy
  • macroeconomics

  Research Program

  • Managing the Risk of RMB Internationalization and Digitalization (2021–2022)
  • Pre- and Post-COVID Chinese Society, Economy, and Politics

• Shoko Hara
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Shoko Hara

  Areas of Expertise

  • Social informatics
  • humanistic informatics
  • information design
  • network theory

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Digital Transformation on Japanese Social Structure

• Chihiro Inoue
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Chihiro Inoue

  Areas of Expertise

  • Labor economics
  • economics of education

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Quality of Education on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

• Liu Jie
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Liu Jie

  Areas of Expertise

  • Modern Japanese political and diplomatic history
  • history of East Asian international relations
  • contemporary Japan-China relations

  Research Program

  • Pre- and Post-COVID Chinese Society, Economy, and Politics

• Yoshiaki Kanamori
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Yoshiaki Kanamori

  Areas of Expertise

  • Health-care and welfare policy
  • well-being
  • mental health
  • nursing care

  Research Program

  • Development of Well-Being Indicators and Policy Packages

• Yohei Kobayashi
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Yohei Kobayashi

  Areas of Expertise

  • public economics
  • public finance
  • tax policy
  • evidence-based policymaking

  Research Program

  • Contingency Plans for a Potential Financial Crisis

• Akira Kyan
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Akira Kyan

  Areas of Expertise

  • School health
  • Social epidemiology
  • Exercise epidemiology
  • Public health

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Quality of Education on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

• Chien Quang Le
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Chien Quang Le

  Areas of Expertise

  • Economics of education
  • applied econometrics

  Research Program

  • The Impact of Quality of Education on Children’s Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills

• Bo Meng
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Bo Meng

  Areas of Expertise

  • Global value chain (GVC)-related analysis
  • Chinese economy
  • climate change economics

  Research Program

  • Managing the Risk of RMB Internationalization and Digitalization (2021–2022)
  • Pre- and Post-COVID Chinese Society, Economy, and Politics

• Mitsuru Mukaigawara
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Mitsuru Mukaigawara

  Areas of Expertise

  • International relations
  • political methodology
  • applied statistics
  • political psychology
  • public policy

  Research Program

  • Establishing Health System Resilience to Tackle the Health Security Crisis
  • Health System Innovation in the Post-COVID Era
  • Rethinking Global Health Policy in the Post-COVID Era

• Satomi Odani
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Satomi Odani

  Areas of Expertise

  • Public health
  • epidemiology
  • tobacco control
  • cancer control
  • health disparities

  Research Program

  • Using Health Metrics to Monitor and Evaluate the Impact of Health Policies

• Naoki Oka
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Naoki Oka

  Areas of Expertise

  International taxation, tax policy

  Research Program

  • Assessing the Integrated Reform of Tax and Social Security Systems in Japan (2021–2022)
  • Digitalization of the Economy and International Taxation
  • Assessing the Integrated Reform of Tax and Social Security Systems in Japan 2

• Kota Sugimoto
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Kota Sugimoto

  Areas of Expertise

  • Resource and energy economics
  • electricity market design
  • applied econometrics

  Research Program

  • The Blue Economy: International Trends and the Situation in Japan ( –2021)
  • Japan’s Response to an Accelerating Global Energy Transition (2021–2022)
  • Policy Evaluation of Cross-Regional Interconnection Lines in the Electricity Market

• Sho Takano
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Sho Takano

  Areas of Expertise

  • Well-being
  • city planning
  • community development
  • public policy

  Research Program

  • Development of Well-Being Indicators and Policy Packages

• Manae Uchibori Murakami
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Manae Uchibori Murakami

  Areas of Expertise

  • Health data science
  • health policy
  • wellbeing
  • innovation
  • peace building

  Research Program

  • Development of Well-Being Indicators and Policy Packages

• Shoko Yoshihara
  • 
  • RESEARCH FELLOW
  • Shoko Yoshihara

  Areas of Expertise

  • National land resources
  • land ownership system
  • local culture

  Research Program

  • Policy Developments regarding the Problem of Unknown Land Ownership ( –2021)
  • The Problem of Unclaimed Land: Analysis of New Policies (2021–2022)
  • The Role of the Community in Land Policy in the Era of Depopulation

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

• Asako Chiba
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  • POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
  • Asako Chiba

  Areas of Expertise

  • Macro-finance
  • financial crisis
  • network model

  Research Program

  • Quantitative Analysis of Epidemics and Economic Implications ( –2023)
  • Future Design: Research on Decision-Making Methods for Intergenerational Sustainability ( –2021)

DISTINGUISHED FELLOW

• Gerald L. Curtis
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  • DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
  • Gerald L. Curtis

  Areas of Expertise

  • Japanese politics and foreign policy
  • US-Japan and US-East Asia relations
  • comparative political party analysis

• Tatsuo Hatta
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  • DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
  • Tatsuo Hatta

  Areas of Expertise

  • Public economics
  • urban economics
  • international economics

• Katsuhito Iwai
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  • DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
  • Katsuhito Iwai

  Areas of Expertise

  • Theory of capitalism
  • monetary theory
  • disequilibrium dynamics
  • evolutionary economics
  • corporate governance
  • theory of fiduciary relations
  • history of social thought

• Yoriko Kawaguchi
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  • DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
  • Yoriko Kawaguchi

  Areas of Expertise

  • Foreign policy and nonproliferation
  • environment
  • Japanese politics and government
  • corporate social responsibility

• Shinichi Kitaoka
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  • DISTINGUISHED FELLOW
  • Shinichi Kitaoka

  Areas of Expertise

  • Political and diplomatic history of Japan
  • United Nations
  • Japan-US relations
  • political parties and leadership

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