March 1991: Graduated from the Faculty of Economics at The University of Tokyo
April 1991: Joined Institute of Developing Economies
March 1996 - August 1998: The School of Business at the University of Hong Kong (Received M.Phil in December 1999)
March 2006 - March 2009: Visiting scholar, Guanghua School of Management at Peking University
November 2011: Received a Ph.D. from Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
September 2013: Professor, Department of Management, Faculty of Economics at Gakushuin University
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Applied Microeconomics (empirics on industrial organization theory, law and economics, contract theory, corporate strategies and institutional development); research on the status of business enterprises, industries, and economies in China and other developing countries
Policy research activities at the Japan Association for Asian Studies, Japanese Research Association for Chinese Economy, Japanese Association for Chinese Economy and Management Studies, Japanese Economic Association, Asian Law and Economic Association, Econometric Society, and other government and research institutes
My research focuses on empirically capture the impact of corporate strategy and institutional development. Methods of empirical industrial organization and structural estimation are very effective to capture how the corporate strategy and institutions affects the market outcome, and are stimulating me so much.
In China, I found and experienced a historic transformation of the economic system. Having seen for myself that both human behavior and society as a whole can change vastly when systems and mechanisms change, I decided to pursue a job that would allow me to properly understand such transformation. Economics is very useful as a means of directly understanding the mechanisms that drive human society, and microeconomics in particular can be applied to many aspects of human behavior. The theme of my lectures and exercises is to have students learn and experience such interesting features of economics.