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IDP/PMPP FacultyIRP Faculty

  |  Takahiro Akita
  |  Atsushi Chino
  |  Makoto Kakinaka
  |  Ryuta Kato
  |  Jungbu Kim
  |  Koji Kotani
  |  Chun-Hung Kuo
  |  Ching-Yang Lin
  |  Eiji Mangyo
  |  Hiroaki Miyamoto

  |  Yoshikuni Ono
  |  Hun Myoung Park
  |  Sangyub Ryu
  |  Shingo Takahashi
  |  Kyohei Yamada

 (Joint appointment with GSIM)
  |  Jay Rajasekera
  |  Yoshitaka Yamazaki

 (Specially Invited Professor)
  |  Motoyoshi Suzuki

  |  Nawalage S. Cooray
  |  Naoko Kumagai
  |  Maung Aung Myoe
  |  Osamu Nakamura
  |  Motohide Saji
  |  Shinichi Watanabe

 (Joint appointment with IRI)
  |  Tomohito Shinoda




Takahiro Akita 
Professor
M.S. in Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1974
Ph.D. in Regional Science, University of Pennsylvania, 1981

Courses:
Development Planning (Multisector Models)
Quantitative Method for Decision Making
Inequality and Poverty: Measurement and Applications
Research Interests:
Regional economic development, income inequality and poverty, environmentally sustainable development, international inter-dependence and growth
Major Publications:
"Structural Changes and Regional Income Inequality in Indonesia: A Bi-dimensional Decomposition Analysis," Asian Economic Journal, Vol. 25(1), pp.55-77, March 2011, with Puji Agus Kurniawan and Sachiko Miyata.
"Interregional Interdependence and Regional Economic Growth in Japan," in Macroeconometric Modeling of Japan, edited by Shinichi Ichimura and Lawrence R. Klein, World Scientific, July 2010, pp.119-136.
"Decomposing Regional Income Inequality in China and Indonesia using Two-Stage Nested Theil Decomposition Method," Annals of Regional Science,37(1), pp.55-77, 2003.
"Regional Income Inequality in Indonesia and the Initial Impact of the Economic Crisis," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies,38(2), pp.201-222, 2002, with Armida Alisjahbana.
"Inequality in the Distribution of Household Expenditures in Indonesia: A Theil Decomposition Analysis," The Developing Economies, 37(2), pp.197-221, 1999, with Rizal Affandi Lukman and Yukino Yamada.

Atsushi Chino
Assistant Professor
M.A. in Economics, Osaka University, 2001
M.A. in Economics, University of Virginia, 2006
Ph.D. in Finance, University of Washington, 2012

Courses:
Corporate Finance
Investment and Asset Pricing
Financial Accounting and Reporting
Research Interests:
Corporate Finance
Asset Pricing
International Finance
Industrial Organization
Contract Theory
Major Publications:
"Strategic interaction in product markets and a firmfs dividend policy," 2012, mimeo.
"Do labor unions affect a firmfs payout policy? Operating leverage versus rent extraction," 2012, mimeo.

Makoto Kakinaka
Professor, Dean
M.A. in Economics, Cornell University, 2004
Ph.D. in Economics, Cornell University, 2006

Courses:
Mathematics for Economics and Management
International Finance
Japanese Banking and Financial System
Research Interests:
Banking and financial management
Public choice and policy analysis
International economics
Major Publications:
"Foreign Direct Investment, Human Capital and Environmental Pollution in China," Environmental and Resource Economics, with Jin Lan and Xianguo Huang, forthcoming.
"Optimal Invasive Species Management under Multiple Uncertainties," Mathematical Biosciences, 233(1), pp.32-46, 2011, with Koji Kotaniand Hiroyuki Matsuda.
"An Interplay between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations on Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good in a Large Economy," Public Choice, 147(1-2), pp.29-41, 2011, with Koji Kotani.
"Real Shock or Nominal Shock? Exchange Rate Movements in Cambodia and Lao PDR," Singapore Economic Review, 55(4), pp.685-703, 2010, with Seiha Ok and Hiroaki Miyamoto.
"Exchange Rates, Price Levels, and Inflation Targeting: Evidence from Asian Countries," Japan and the World Economy, 22(3), pp.173-182, 2010, with Weera Prasertnukul and Donghun Kim.
"Dynamic Economic Analysis on Invasive Species Management: Some Policy Implications of Catchability,", Mathematical Biosciences, 220(1), pp1-14, 2009,@with Koji Kotani and Hiroyuki Matsuda.
   
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Ryuta Ray Kato
Professor and Vice President
M.A. in Economics, Yokohama National University, Japan, March 1990
M.A. in Economics, University of Essex, UK, March 1996
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Essex, UK, April 2000

Courses:
Public Finance
Computable General Equilibrium Modeling
Public Sector Economics
Research Interests:
An aging population, health related issues, government deficits, issues in public pension schemes, applications of stochastic processes in economics
Major Publications:
gThe Impact of Tax and Subsidy Policies for the Health Related Sectors on the Japanese Economy,hin Ihori eds., New Risks and Social Security, Chapter 15, the University of Tokyo Press, 2012.
gThe Impact of Marginal Tax Reforms on the Supply of Health Related Services in Japan," The Japanese Journal of Social Security Policy, 9(1), pp.1-32, 2012.
Health Insurance Reform and Economic Growth: Simulation Analysis in Japan,hJapan and the World Economy,, Vol. 23 (4), pp.227-239, 2011, with Toshihiro Ihori, Masumi Kawade, and Shun-ichiro Bessho.
gThe Impact of the Global Economic Crisis on Cambodia,h Economics Bulletin, Vol. 30 No.3, pp 2346-2370, 2010.
gPublic Debt and Economic Growth in an Aging Japan," in Kaizuka and Krueger eds. Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges: Strategies to Cope with High Public Debt and Population Aging, Chapter 3, IMF, Palgrave, 2006, with Ihori, Kawade and Bessho.

Jungbu Kim
Associate Professor
M.A. in Public Administration, Seoul National University, 2001
Ph.D. in Public Policy, the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University, 2007

Courses:
Environmental Policy
Public Policy Process
Public Finance and Budgeting
Research Interests:
Research and Development (R&D) budgets , State and local budgeting and finance , Intergovernmental transfer and Disaster response
Major Publications:
"The Virtuous Circle of Disaster Recover: Who Returns and Stays in Town after Disaster Evacuation," Journal of Risk Research, forthcoming, with Seong Soo Oh.
"Political Decentralization, Subnational Political Capital, and Intergovernmental Transfers in Korea," The American Review of Public Administration, 43(1), pp.109-129, 2013.
"Political Institutions and Public R&D Expenditures in Democratic Countries," International Journal of Public Administration, 34(13), pp.843-857, 2011.
"Structuring a Framework for Public Health Performance-based Budgeting: A Georgia Case Study,", The Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 13(2), pp. 173-179, 2007, with Robert J. Eger, III., Valerie Hepburn, and Cathy Slade.

Koji Kotani
Professor and Program Director of IDP
M.S. in Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, 2001
Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, Cornell University, 2005

Courses:
Macroeconomics I
Agricultural Economics
Environmental Economics
Research Interests:
Agriculture and natural resource management
Environmental economics and policy
Energy markets
Major Publications:
"Real Options Approach to Renewable Energy Investments in Mongolia," Energy Policy, with Neal Detert , forthcoming.
"Climatic Impacts across Agricultural Crop Yield Distributions: An Application of Quantile Regressions on Rice Crops in Andhra Pradesh, India," Ecological Economics, with Prabhat Barnwal, forthcoming.
"Climatic Impacts on Crop Yield and its Variability in Nepal: Do They Vary Across Seasons and Altitudes?," Climatic Change, with Santosh Poudel, forthcoming.
"Exchange Rate Movements in a Dollarized Economy: The Case of Cambodia," ASEAN Economic Bulletin ,29(1), pp. 65-78, 2012, with Sok Heng Lay and Makoto Kakinaka.
"The Determinants of Household Energy Demand in Rural Beijing: Can Environmental-friendly Technologies Be Effective?" Energy Economics, 34(2), pp. 381-388, 2012, with Zhang Jingchao.
   
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Chun-Hung Kuo
Assistant Professor
M.A. in Economics, National Taiwan University, 2004
Ph.D. in Economics, North Carolina State University, 2012

Courses:
Time Series Analysis
Applied Econometrics/Data Analysis
Financial Economics and Capital Markets
Research Interests:
Macro-econometrics, Fiscal Policy, Monetary Economics, Development Economics, Computational Economics
Major Publications:
"Tensor Spline Approximation in Economic Dynamics with Uncertainties," Computational Economics, with Moody T. Chu and Mathew M. Lin, forthcoming.
"Identifying Sources of Misspecification in DSGE Models," with Atsushi Inoue and Barbara Rossi, mimeo.
"A Simple Basis-free Projection Scheme for Euler Equation Problem," Revision requested, with Moody T. Chu and Mathew M. Lin, mimeo.
"Structural Estimation of a Heterogeneous Agents Model," mimeo.
" An Algorithm for Solving Heterogeneous Agent Models with Aggregate Uncertainty," mimeo.

Ching-Yang Lin
Assistant Professor
M.S. in Economics, National Taiwan University, 2003
M.S. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010

Courses:
Microeconomics II
Monetary Economics and Policy Analysis
Money and Banking
Research Interests:
Monetary Economics, Financial Economics and Computational Economics.
Major Publications:
"Gross Worker Flows and Unemployment Dynamics in Japan," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, with Hiroaki Miyamoto, forthcoming.
"Exports and Economic Growth in Indonesia's Fishery Sub-sector: Cointegration and Error-correction Models," Empirical Economics Letters, Vol.10, 2011, pp.679-686, with Indra Nurcahyo Sjarif and Koji Kotani.
"Timing of Motherhood and Economic Growth," December 2009, mimeo.
"Asset Pricing, Portfolio Decisions in an Incomplete Market," November 2009, mimeo.
"Elderly Asset Management," with Jonathan Feinstein, December 2006.

Eiji Mangyo
Professor
M.A. in Public Policy, University of Michigan, 1998
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Michigan, 2005

Courses:
Statistics for Business & Economics
Development Economics
Health Economics
Research Interests:
A broad range of issues in development, especially health issues, intra-household economics, economics of happiness, and applied microeconometrics.
Major Publications:
"Water Accessibility and Child Health: Use of the Leave-Out Strategy of Instruments," Journal of Health Economics, Vol.30 (5), pp1000-1010, 2011, with Dirga Kumar Lamichhane.
"Relative Deprivation and Health: Which Reference Groups Matter?" Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 46(3), pp459-481, 2011, with Albert Park.
"Vulnerability of Households to Health Shocks: An Indonesian Study," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Vol.46(2), 2010, pp213-235, with Thi Nhu Nguyet Nguyen.
"Who Benefits More from Higher Household Consumption? The Intra-household Allocation of Nutrients in China," Journal of Development Economics, Vol.86(2), 2008, pp.296-312.
"The Effect of Water Accessibility on Child Health in China," Journal of Health Economics, Vol.27(5), 2008, pp1343-1356.

Hiroaki Miyamoto [Link to the personal website]
Professor and Associate Dean
M.A. in Economics, Keio University, 2002.
M.S. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009.

Courses:
Microeconomics I
Macroeconomics II
Applied Time Series Analysis
Macroeconomics and Policy Analysis
Research Interests:
Macroeconomics, Labor Economics, Search Theory,
Growth and Business Cycle
Major Publications:
"Productivity Growth, On-the-Job Search, and Unemployment," Journal of Monetary Economics, with Yuya Takahashi, forthcoming.
"Gross Worker Flows and Unemployment Dynamics in Japan," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, with Ching-Yang Lin, forthcoming.
"Cyclical Behavior of a Matching Model with Capital Investment," The B. E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2011, Vol. 11: Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 2.
"Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Training Costs," Economic Modelling, 2011 Vol. 28, pp.1838-1841.
"Cyclical Shocks in a Model of Equilibrium Unemployment," The Japanese Economic Review, 2010 Vol. 61, 282-288, with Yoshimasa Shirai.

Yoshikuni Ono
Assistant Professor
LL.M. in Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, 2001
M.A. in Political Science, University of Michigan, 2005
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Michigan, 2010

Courses:
Comparative Government and Politics
Comparative Analysis of Public Policy
Public Administration
Research Interests:
Parliamentary democracy, coalition formation, legislative institutions, Political parties, intra-party politics, electoral systems, Delegation of power, bureaucracy, institutional development, Japanese politics
Major Publications:
"Portfolio Allocation as Leadership Strategy: Intraparty Bargaining in Japan." American Journal of Political Science 56 (3): pp.553-567,2012.
gSpatial Theory and Voting Behavior,hIn Tohyo Kodo Kenkyu no Furontfia [Frontiers of Voting Behavior Studies], ed. Masahiro Yamada, Tokyo: Brain-Shuppan.
"Nonprofit Organizations and Policy Process: Public Interest Groups and Issue Networks in Japan." Kokkagakkai Zasshi, 115, pp.1056-1116, 2002.

Hun Myoung Park
Associate Professor
M.A. in Public Administration, Korea University, Seoul, February 1993
Ph.D. in Public Policy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, May 2007

Courses:
Public Information Policy and Management
Introduction to Electronic Government
Public Policy Modeling
Public Management Information Systems
Research Interests:
Policy analysis, Public management information systems (e-government), Public and nonprofit management, and quantitative data analysis
Major Publications:
"Do Campaign Websites Really Matter in Electoral Civic Engagement? Empirical Evidence from the 2004 Post-election Internet Tracking Survey." Social Science Computer Review, 26(2),Summer, 2008, pp.190-212, with James L. Perry.
"Does Internet Use Really Facilitate Civic Engagement? Empirical Evidences from the American National Election Studies." Civic Engagement in a Networked Society, edited by Erik Bergrud and Kaifeng Yang, 2008, Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, pp237-270, with James L. Perry.
"Diffusing the Information Technology Education in the Korean Undergraduate Public Affairs and Administration Programs: Driving Forces and Challenging Issues," Journal of Public Affairs Education, 12(4),Fall 2006, pp.537-555, with Hanjun Park
"A First Look at Users Perception on the Seoul OPEN System," Building Good Governance: Reforms in Seoul, edited by Marc Holzer and Byong-Joon Kim, Seoul, Korea: National Center for Public Productivity and Seoul Development Institute, pp.71-85., with Gant, Jon P. and James L. Perry.

Sangyub Ryu [Link to the personal website]
Assistant Professor
M.S. in Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007
Ph.D. in Public Administration, University of Georgia, 2012

Courses:
Public Management
Public Human Resource Management
Public Organization Theory
Research Interests:
Public Management Networks and Network Management Behavior
Organizational Performance
Decision Making
Emergency Management
Major Publications:
"Examining the Role of Management in Turnover: A Contingency Approach" Public Performance and Management Review, with Young-Joo Lee, forthcoming
"When Claimant Characteristics and Prior Performance Predict Bureaucratic Error," American Review of Pubic Administration, 42, No. 6, 2012, pp.695-714, with Jeffrey Wenger, and Vicky Wilkins
"Strengthening Network Ties through Mentoring of Alienated Personnel, " The Korean Journal of Policy Studies , 26, No.3, 2011, pp.53-67, with Soo-Young Lee

Shingo Takahashi
Associate Professor and Program Director of PMPP
M.A in Economics, University of new South Wales, 2000
Ph.D. in Economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006

Courses:
Cross-Sectional and Panel Analysis
Personnel economics for Managers
Research Methodology

Research Interests:

Labor Economics@and Personnel Economics

Major Publications:
"Multi-tasking Job Designs Affect Productivity: Evidence from Australian Coal Mining Industry," Industrial & Labor Relations Review, Vol. 64, No.5, Article 1, pp.841-862, 2011.
"Gender Salary Differences in Economics Departments in Japan ," Economics of Education Review, Vol.30, pp.1306-1319, 2011, with Ana Maria Takahashi.
"An Estimation of the Work Disincentive Effects of the Spousal Deduction and the Social Security Systems on the Labor Supply of Japanese Married Women," Japan Labor Review, Dec, 2010, pp.28-43.
"Gender Promotion Differences in Economics Departments in Japan: A Semi-parametric Duration Analysis," GSIR Working Papers, Economic Analysis & Policy Series EAPO9-4, 2009, with Ana Maria Takahashi.
"Determinants of Job Related Stress of Academic Economists in Japan," The Japanese Economy, Vol. 37, No. 2, pp.120-127, with Ana Maria Takahashi.
"The Effect of Refereed Articles on Salary, Promotion and Labor Mobility: The Case of Japanese Economists,"Economic Bulletin, Vol. 30, Issue 1, 2010, with Ana Maria Takahashi.
"A Structural Estimation of the Effects of Spousal Tax Deduction and Social Security System on the Labor Supply of Japanese Married Women," GSIR Working Papers, Economic Analysis & Policy Series EAP10-4, 2010.
"Gender Promotion Differences in Economics Departments in Japan: A Semi-parametric Duration Analysis," GSIR Working Papers, Economic Analysis & Policy Series EAPO9-4, 2009, with Ana Maria Takahashi.

Kyohei Yamada
Assistant Professor
M.A in East Asian Studies, Yale University, 2006
Ph.D. in Political Science, Yale University, expected 2013

Courses:
Public Administration

Research Interests:

Comparative Political Economy, Japanese Politics, Field Experiment ,Fiscal Federalism

Major Publications:
Kyohei Yamada. 2012."Book Review: Spending Without Taxation: FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan." Comparative Political Studies, 45 (7): 931]934. Reviewing Gene Park (2011) Spending Without Taxation: FILP and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Frances Rosenbluth, Jun Saito, and Kyohei Yamada. 2011."Electoral Adaptation in Japan: Party Strategy after Electoral Rule Change." The Journal of Social Science (Shakai Kagaku Kenkyu) , 62(1): 5]23.
Frances Rosenbluth, Jun Saito, and Kyohei Yamada. 2011. "Senkyo Seido to Seito Senryaku,"("Electoral Rules and Party Strategies") in Nobuhiro Hiwatari and Jun Saito (eds.) Seito Seiji no Konmei to Seiken Kotai, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
Jun Saito and Kyohei Yamada. 2011."Local Politics" in Alisa Gaunder (ed.)Handbook of Japanese Politics. London: Routledge, Chapter 10, pp.103]114.
Kyohei Yamada. 2011."Chiikikan Kakusa to Seiken Kotai" ("Regional Inequality and Change of Government") in Nobuhiro Hiwatari and Jun Saito (eds.) Seito Seiji no Konmei to Seiken Kotai , Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.
Kyohei Yamada. 2011."Geographic Income Distribution and the LDP."The Journal of Social Science (Shakai Kagaku Kenkyu) 62 (1): 131]149.
Kyohei Yamada. 2011. "Urban]Rural Income Inequality and the LDP." Social Science Japan 45: 10]15.

Jay Rajasekera (Joint-Appointment with GSIM)
Professor
Graduate School of International Management
Ph.D. in Operations Research, North carolina State University, 1984

Courses:
Foundataion of Web Technologies
Database Design and Management Strategies
IT Strategy & Policy Planning

Research Interests:

Corporate IT Strategies
National IT Policy Mobile Technologies
Optimization Modeling
Production and Logistic Management

Major Publications:

"Using Kansei Engineering with New JIT to Accomplish Cost Advantage,"International Journal of Biometrics (IJBM). University of Western Sydney, 2004.
"Serving the Poor by Marketing Information: Developing a Sustainable Village Phone Model in Bangladesh," Int. J. Economics and Business Research, Vol. 2, Nos. 3/4, pp288-309, 2010, with Md. Shahriar Akter and Md Mahfuzur Rahman.
Current Research in Modeling, Date Mining & Quantitative Techniques , University of Western Sydney, 2004.
Visual Age for JAVA , with IBM Japan, in Japanese, Toppan Japan, 2001.
Entropy Optimization and Mathematical Programming, 1Kluwer NY, 1997.
   
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Yoshitaka Yamazaki (Joint-Appointment with GSIM)
Professor
Graduate School of International Management
M.A in International Management, Thunderbird School of Global Management, 1990
Ph.D. in Organization Behavior, Case Western Reserve University, 2004.

Courses:
Public Human Resource Management
Organization Behavior (GSIM)
Cross Cultural Management (GSIM)
International Career Development (GSIM)

Research Interests:

Expatriate learning, adaptation, and development
Japanese ways of learning in organizations
Career development in international contexts

Major Publications:

"Learning and Work Satisfaction in Asia: A Comparative Study of Japanese, Chinese, and Malaysian Managers," International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2010, 21(12), pp.2267-2285, with Kayes, D. C..
"Expatriate Adaptation: A Fit between Skills and Demands among Japanese Expatriates in the United States,"Management International Review,50(1), pp.81-108, 2010.
"Expatriate Learning: How Japanese Managers Adapt in the United States," International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18(8), pp. 1373-1395, 2007, with Kayes, D.C. .
"Learning Styles and Typologies of Cultural Differences: A Theoretical and Empirical Comparison," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 29(5), pp. 521-548, 2005.
"An Experiential Approach to Cross-cultural Learning: A Review and Integration of Competencies for Successful Expatriate Adaptation," Academy of Management Learning and Education, 3(4), pp. 362-379, 2004, with Kayes, D.C.

Motoyoshi Suzuki
Specially Invited Professor
M.A. in International Economics, Kobe University of Commerce, 1983
M.A. in Development Economics, Thammasat University, Thailand, 1986
Ph.D. in Economics, Kobe University of Commerce, 2002

Research Interestz:
Economic Development in Asia and Africa, Foreign Direct Investment, National Development Strategy, Industrial Park and Industrialization in Developing Economies

Major Publications:

"Sub-regionally Complementary Industrialization Policy for the Lao P.D.R.," The Experience and Prospects of Late-Comer ASEAN Countries, edited by Naoko Amakawa, National University of Singapore. 2010.
gIndustrialization Strategy of Laos -Agglomeration and Fragmentation-,h Plugging into Production Networks?Insutrialization Strategy in Less Developed Southeast Asian Countries, edited by Ikuo Kuroiwa, National University of Singapore Press, 2010.
Alpha Mathematics for Economic Bureaucrats, JICA, April 2011, with Ibraham Turay.
Economics for Economic Bureaucrats, JICA. April 2011, with Sheka Bungra.
Poverty Reduction and Economic Development in Sierra Leone, Japan International Cooperation Agency and Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Sierra Leone, June 2011 with Sheka Bangura and Alimamy Bangura (Eds.)
SPSS Econometrics, Japan International Cooperation Agency and Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, Sierra Leone, June 2011, with Sheka Bangura.
gExport Processing Zones and WTO SCM Agreement," Industrial Clusters, Upgrading and Innovation in East Asia, Edward-Elger Publishing Ltd. 2011, with Akifumi Kuchiki and Masatsugu Tsuji (Ed.).


IRP Faculty

Nawalage S. Cooray  |  Naoko Kumagai  |   Maung Aung Myoe  |   Osamu Nakamura  |  Motohide Saji  |   Shinichi Watanabe  | Tomohito Shinoda (Joint-Appointment with IRI)


Nawalage S. Cooray  [Personal Homepage]
Associate Professor
M.A. in International Economics, International University of Japan, 1992
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Nagoya, Japan, 1996

Courses:
Essentials of Economics
International Political Economy
Econometric Modeling and Forecasting with Time sereis Data
Research Interests:
Sustainable development issues, macroeconomics, econometric modeling and forecasting, growth and development
Major Publication:
Sustainable Future of the Global System: Endeavors from Rio to Johannesburg, The United Nations University/Institute of Advanced Studies, Tokyo, Japan, August 2002, with W. D. Lakshman.
Sustainable Future of the Global System III, The United Nations University/Institute of Advanced Studies, 2000, edited with Fu Chen Lo and Hiroyasu Tokuda.
"Economic integration in a developing country: an econometric test," Regional Development Studies, 6, 2000, pp.151-161, with Wimal Rankaduwa.
"Some macroeconomic understanding of the Sri Lankan economy," The Journal of Social Science, 41, 1999, pp.1-31.
"Applications, issues and future prospects of quantitative tools in economic planning: Asian experience", UNCRD Research Report Series, 30, 1999, with A. L. Fernandez.

Naoko Kumagai Naoko Kumagai
Assistant Professor
M. A. in Public Administration, International Christian University, 1997
Ph.D. in Political Science, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2009

Courses:
International Politics
International Organizations
International Conflict Resolution
Research Interests:
1)Disarmament and international security; weapons research and development
2)Humanitarianism, especially the protection of civilians in armed conflict
3)State sovereignty and transnational civil society
4)Modern European intellectual history, especially European modernism

Maung Aung Myoe Maung Aung Myoe
Professor, Associate Dean and Program Director of IRP
Professor and Program Director of IRP
M. A. in International Relations, International University of Japan, 1993
Ph.D. in Political Science and International Relations, Australian National University, 2000

Courses:
Foreign Policy Analysis
Security and Strategy in International Relations
Southeast Asian International Relations
Global Issues; UN Global Seminar
Research Interests:
1)Civil-Military Relations
2)Foreign Policy Analysis
3)Security and Strategy
4)Myanmar Politics and Foreign Relations
Major Publications:
In the Name of Pauk-Phaw: Myanmar's China Policy since 1948 , Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,2010, Forthcoming.
Building the Tatmadaw: Myanmar Armed Forces since 1948, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009.
Neither Friend nor Foe: Myanmar's Relations with Thailand since 1988, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2002.
"Dealing with the Dragon: China Factor in Myanmar 's Foreign Policy," edited by Anthony Reid and Zheng Yangwen, Negotiating Asymmetry: China's Place in Asia, NUS Press, 2009.
"Myanmar in 2007: A Turning Point in the gRoadmaph?" Asian Survey, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2008, with Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung.
"Myanmar in 2006: Another Year of Housekeeping?" Asian Survey, Vol. 47, No.1, 2007,with Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung.

Osamu Nakamura Osamu Nakamura
Professor
M.A. in Economics, Soka University, 1981
Ph. D. in Economics, Soka University, 2012

Courses:
International Economic Systems and Order
Postwar Japanese Economy
Japanese Public Finance and Administration
Research Interests:
1) Productivity in the geriatric economy in Japan, 2) Income distribution and economic growth, 3) Decentralized systems and sustainable economic growth in the Japanese regional economies.
Major Publications:
Income Distribution and Economic Growth of Japan under the Deflationary Economy : Theory and Evidence on an Econometric Analysis, Singapore, World Scientific, 2012.
"International Trade, Capital Transfer and Growth of the Vietnamese Economy in the Context of Asia and the Pacific: An Econometric Analysis with a Global Macro Model," The Journal of Econometric Study of Northeast Asia (JESNA), Vol.8, No.2, 2012.
"Determinants of Per Capita Income Growth of the Japanese Regional Economy on a Basis of 47-Prefectures: New growth theory approach," The Journal of Econometric Study of Northeast Asia (JESNA),Vol.10, No.1, 2010.
"Energy Demand and Economic Development of China: An econometric analysis," The Journal of Econometric Study of Northeast Asia(JESNA), Vol.8, No.2, 2007.
"Reform of the Public Finance and Administration: The case of Hokkaido, An econometric Analysis," Journal of Japan Association for Planning and Administration, Vol.16, No.3, 2002. (in Japanese)

Motohide Saji  [Personal Homepage]
Associate Professor
M.A. in Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 1998.
M.A. in Political Science, University of Chicago, 2001
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Chicago, 2006.

Courses:
Human Rights and Global Justice
INGOs and Global Civil Society
Peace, War and the Development of Modern Japan
Research Interests:
Political philosophy, cosmopolitanism, nationalism,
modern Japanese political thought and intellectual history
Major Publications:
"On an East Asian community, or Kantfs cosmopolitan right reconsidered," Globalization and Regional Integration in Europe and Asia , Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2009, pp.123-142.
"On the division between reason and unreason in Kant," Human Studies: A Journal for Philosophy and the Social Sciences 32, no.2, June 2009, pp.201-223.
"Three aspects of the self-opacity of the empirical subject in Kant," Philosophy & Social Criticism 35, no.3, March 2009, pp.315-337.
"On tensions in Kant's account of reason in politics," Textual Practice 20, no. 4, December 2006, pp. 679-702.

Shinichi Watanabe
IR Specially Appointed Professor
M.A. in Economics, Hitotsubashi University, 1978
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Minnesota, 1983

Courses:
Poverty, War and Human Security
Environment and Human Security
Applied Game Theory
International Migration: Theory, Policy and Institute
Research Interests:
Evolution of institutions, Global governance of flows of people and funds, Sustainable Development
Major Publications:
"The Inter-Provincial Capital Flows during the Transition Period of China," in M. Watanabe, ed., Recovering Financial Systems, China and Asian Transition Economies, IDE-JETRO/Palgrave, 2006.
Dynamics of GDP processes during the transition to market economies in the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe and East Asia," in S. Watanabe, ed., Financial Systems and Economic Growth in Developing Countries in Asia and Africa, IUJ-IDP Press, 2003.
"Dollarization and its effect on the functions and development of financial@systems in Cambodia, Lao and Vietnam," in S. Watanabe, ed., Dollarization and Its Effect on Monetary and Foreign Exchange Rate Policies and the Development of Financial Systems: Vietnam, Lao PDR and Cambodia, Joint Research Project Workshop, State Bank of Vietnam and JICA, 2002.
"Evolution of the crisis in Indonesia: part II," Journal of Research Institute for International Investment and Development (Kaigai-Toshi-Kenkyusho-Ho), 25(3), 1999, pp.79-101.
"Evolution of the crisis in Indonesia: part I," Journal of Research Institute for International Investment and Development (Kaigai-Toshi- Kenkyusho-Ho), 24(10), 1998, pp.71-120.

Tomohito Shinoda Tomohito Shinoda (Joint-Appointment with IRI)
Professor, Director of IUJ Research Institute
M.A. in International Relations, International University of Japan, 1986
Ph.D. in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University, 1994

Courses:
Contemporary Japanese Politics
Japanese Political Economy
American Foreign Policy
Major Publications:
Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs, University of Washington Press, 2007.
Post Cold-war Japanese Foreign Policy: Domestic Political Process in National Security Policy Making, Mineruva Shobo, 2006. Winner of the Best Publication of Year Award from the Japan Association for International Security.
Leading Japan: The Role of the Prime Minister, Praeger, 2000



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