Educational Background

MA(International Studies), Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University
BA(Humanities), Ibaraki University

Career Background

Research Officer, JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development, April 2024 – present
Business Department Manager, Accel Africa K.K, March 2023-March 2024
CEO, The Grassroots Walkers LTD., Jun 2022-Feb 2023
Research Fellow (Africa), Mitsui & Co. Global Strategic Studies Institute, May 2020-May 2022
CEO, The Grassroots Walkers LTD., . October 2016-April 2020
Manufacturing Management, Advantech Co.,LTD. April 2015-April 2016

Major Publications

Masashi Hasegawa, 2025, “ Column ④ : Starting your business in Africa――The possibility and risk”, African Economic Development, Minerva Shobou

Masashi Hasegawa, 2022,"Nigeria Seeks Alternative Borrowers for Infrastructure Development Instead of China- The Dependence on Chinese Loans Moderately Eases," TSR Information (March 24, 2022), Tokyo Shoko Research, LTD.

Motoki Takahashi and Masashi Hasegawa, 2017, “Chapter 6: National Integration, Political Violence and People’s Livelihoods: Conflicts and Coexistence in Rural Kenya”, , African Virtues in the Pursuit of Conviviality: Exploring Local Solutions in Light of Global Prescriptions, pp. 169-202

Takahashi, Motoki and Masashi Hasegawa, 2016, “Chapter 10: National Integration, Political Violence and People’s Livelihoods: Conflicts and Coexistence in Rural Kenya” The African Potential Series 3: Between Development and Symbiosis: Living with States and Market Change, Kyoto University Press

Related Research Projects

Study about movements and networks of Japanese descendants between Japan and Latin America

A Transnational History of Japanese Emigration to South America: Migration Programs, Economic Development, and Cultural Activities

A Study on the Postwar Industrial Migration from Japan to Brazil