ACHIEVEMENTS

Professional Experiences in Academics

2018 -2019     Guest Professor and Researcher,  Faculty of Economics, Business and Law, University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany 

(From April 2018 to March 2019) 

 

2015- 2017  Chairperson, the Organizing Committee of the International Metropolis Conference 2016 in Aichi-Nagoya

 

2013-15  President of the Japan Association for Migration Policy Studies

 

2005-2013 Director of the Research Center of Economies with Low Fertility, Kwansei Gakuin University

1999/2004 Guest Professor, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, University ofLille 1, France

2001-2002 Guest Researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for I.A.S.R. in Munich, Germany

2022-            Professor emeritus of Kwansei Gakuin University 

1997-2022   Professor of Economics, KwanseiGakuinUniversity

1995-1997 Associate Professor of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University

 

Other Professional Experiences

2005-2010 Special Member of the Council on Regulatory Reform, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan

2006- 2009 Special Member of the Study Committee on Labor Market Reform, Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan

1995-2001, 2002-2013  Chairperson of the Council on Working Life, Nishinomiya-City

2002- Advisor for the Alliance of Municipalities with high density of Foreign Inhabitants, Japan

2001- Member of Hyogo Regional Committee on Labor Policy, Hyogo Labor Bureau

1992-1995 Director for Foreign Workers' Affairs, Ministry of Labor, Government of Japan

1992-1995 Correspondent of Japan to the Continuous Reporting System on Migration, OECD

1992-1994 Negotiator (Labor Expert) of the Government of Japan in the Uruguay Round on Trade in Services             

1976-1995 Official, Ministry of Labor, Japan