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September 2025: MA in Migration and Global Development, University of Sussex
(April 2026 – Present: PhD Candidate in International Relations, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS), Waseda University)
July 2014: Visiting Research Student in International Relations (with Government Scholarship), School of International Studies, Peking University
March 2013: Bachelor in Law, University of Tokyo
April 2026 – Present: Research Fellow, JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development, JICA
Sep 2025 – Mar 2026: Office for Global Issues and Development Partnership, Operations Strategy Department, JICA
Apr 2025 – Sep 2025: Intern Researcher (Policy Analysis and Advice), International Migration Division, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee, OECD
Apr 2024 – Jun 2024: Visiting Researcher, International Relations Department, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS)
Jul 2022 – Jul 2024: East Asia Division, East and Central Asia Department, JICA
(Sep 2022 – Aug 2023: concurrently Central Asia and Caucasus Division)
Jun 2019 – Jul 2022: Vietnam Office, JICA
May 2017 – Jun 2019: Water Resources Group (Team II), Global Environment Department, JICA
Apr 2015 – May 2017: Economic Infrastructure Development and Environment Division, Tokyo International Center, JICA
・Chaloff, J. and Ishimaru, H. (2025). Trends in Labor Migration in Asia. In: Labor Migration in Asia: Fair Recruitment, Training, and Development. Asian Development Bank Institute eBooks, pp.1–25, 102–144. doi: https://doi.org/10.56506/mxnx3325 .
・Ishimaru, H. (2026). Is Japan Externalising Border control through Development Cooperation with Vietnam? Sussex Centre for Migration Research Working Papers, 108, Brighton: University of Sussex.
・Ishimaru, H. and Matsumoto, S. (2024). Characteristics of Co-financing with Developed Country Donors (DAC & MDBs) in China’s International Cooperation, in Paper Collection of 2024 Spring Conference of the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), 25, pp. 244-254.
・Ishimaru, H., Doi, K., Wang, M. and Hayashi, K. (2023). Overall Features of Co-Finance in Development Cooperation: Based on Case Studies between China and DAC Donors, in Paper Collection of the National Conference and Congress of the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), 34, pp. 515-530.
・Ishimaru, H. (2021). History of Taiwan's Water Supply Development by Japanese Government: Ideas absorbed from the West and applied in Japan and Taiwan by the Meiji Government, Field Report of Ogata Research Institute, JICA, 7, doi: https://doi.org/10.18884/00001056 .
The Japan Society for International Development (JASID),
Japan Association for Migration Policy Studies (JAMPS)
Fellow, Mt. Fuji Dialogue Young Forum (October 2025 – October 2027)
