Educational Background

Ph.D (International Development), Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
Diploma, International Institute for Educational Planning, UNESCO
DEA (Education),3ème cycle, University of Paris V
Bachelor of Literature, University of Kyoto

Career Background

Advisor to the Executive Director, JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development
Senior Vice President, JICA
Vice President for Education, TICAD, JICA-DSP(JICA Development Studies Program), JICA
Director, JICA Research Institute
Deputy Director, JICA Research Institute
Director General, Human Development Department, JICA
Chief Representative, JICA Bangladesh Office
Deputy Director General, and Group Director for Basic Education, Human Development Department, JICA

Major Publications

<Authored/Co-edited Books>

2022
Japan’s International Cooperation in Education. (co-edited with Kazuo Kuroda and Yuto Kitamura). Springer.

2019 
International Education Cooperation of Japan: History and Perspectives (co-edited with Kazuo Kuroda). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press. (in Japanese).

2019
Internationalization of Higher Education and ODA Participation of Japanese Universities. Tokyo: Tamagawa University Press. (in Japanese).

2019
Realizing Education for All in the Digital Age:Think 20 (T20), (co-edited with Peter Morgan), ADB Institute.

2004
Approaches for Systematic Planning of Development Projects: Higher Education (co-edited with JICA Task Team). Tokyo: JICA.

2002
Approaches for Systematic Planning of Development Projects: Basic Education (co-edited with JICA Task Team). Tokyo: JICA.

1989
Développment de l'Education au Cours de l' Ere Meiji(1867-1912) : Modernisation et Monteé du Nationalisme au Japon (Cahiers de l'IIEP No.78). UNESCO Institut International de Planification de l'Education. (in French).

<Journal Articles/Chapter Contributions>

2021
“Student Mobility to Japan in the Age of COVID-19: A Matter of Degree.” JICA Ogata Sadako Research Institute for Peace and Development. (co-authored with Lauren Nakasato)

2020
“Japan’s International Education Cooperation in the Era of SDGs,” Institute for Peace Policy. (in Japanese).

2019
“International Education Cooperation of Japan: History and Perspectives - Education Cooperation and Scholarship programs” (co-authored with Miki Sugimura), Ryugaku Koryu, Vol. 105. (in Japanese).

2019
“ODA and Universities,” IDE Gendai no Koto Kyoiku, No. 613, pp. 47-51. (in Japanese).

2019
“Empirical Research of the History of International Students in Japan – Analysis of Historical Documents from JASSO Archive” (co-authored with Kohei Takagi and Miki Sugimura), Japan Student Services Organization. (in Japanese).

2018
“History and Perspectives of Japan’s Educational Cooperation,” SRID Journal, Vol. 14. (in Japanese).

2017
“Changing Priorities and Strategies in the World Bank's Support to Higher Education: Convergences and Divergences Between Policy and Operations” (co-authored with Taeko Okitsu and Naoki Umemiya), Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, Vol. 29, pp. 53-70. (in Japanese).

2016
“Japan's SDG-Linked Education Policy and Strategy- Both for Japan and Development Cooperation” (co-authored with Naoko Arakawa), NORRAG News, Vol. 54, pp. 80-81.

2016
“How have Japanese Universities Participated in Development Cooperation Programs? - Case Study of Japanese International Cooperation in Engineering Education since the 1990s,” Forum of International Development Studies, Vol. 47(4), pp. 1-19. (in Japanese).

2016
“Educational Cooperation of Government Agencies,” in Taro Komatsu (ed.). Education and Development in the Developing World : Seeking an Equitable World, Tokyo: Sophia University Press, pp. 115-132. (in Japanese).

2010
“Rethinking Japan’s International Cooperation – Educational Cooperation of JICA” in Seiji Utsumi (ed.). Hajimeteno Kokusai Kyoryoku, Kyoto: Showado, pp. 26-43. (in Japanese).

2003
“Education for All by 2015,” Ajiken World Trend, Vol. 4, pp. 14-17. (in Japanese).

1999
“Prospect – JICA’s Educational Cooperation,” Journal of International Cooperation in Education, Vol. 2(1), pp. 22-33. (in Japanese).

Affiliations

Japan Society for International Development, Japan Comparative Education Society

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