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IDP/PMPP FacultyIRP/IPSP Faculty

  |  Takahiro Akita
  |  Makoto Kakinaka
  |  Ryuta Kato
  |  Jungbu Kim
  |  Koji Kotani
  |  Ching-Yang Lin
  |  Eiji Mangyo
  |  Hiroaki Miyamoto
  |  Jinhwan Oh

  |  Yoshikuni Ono
  |  Hun Myoung Park
  |  Shingo Takahashi

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

 (Specially Invited Professor)
  |  Motoyoshi Suzuki

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


 (Joint appointment with IRI)
  |  Tomohito Shinoda




Takahiro Akita 
Dean and 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.
" The Bi-dimensional Decomposition of Regional Inequality based on the Weighted Coefficient of Variation," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 3(3), pp.91-100, October 2010, with 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.
"Inter-sectoral Interdependence and Growth in Vietnam: A Comparative Analysis with Indonesia and Malaysia," Journal of Applied Input-Output Analysis, 13 & 14, pp.61-81, 2008, with Chu Thi Trung Hau.
"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.

Makoto Kakinaka
Associate Professor and Program Director of PMPP
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:
International Economics
Banking and Financial Systems
Public Choice
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
Assoiciate Dean and Professor
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
Applied Econometrics
Public Sector Economics
Research Interests:
An aging population, health related issues, government deficits, issues in public pension scheme, information economics, applications of stochastic processes in economics
Major Publications:
gIntrinsic Motivation of Physicians,h with Kakinaka, GSIR Working Paper Series, EAP08-1, GSIR, International University of Japan, 2008.
gPublic Debt and Economic Growth in an Aging Japan," with Ihori, Kawade and Bessho, 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.
gGovernment Deficits in an Aging Japan,h in Ihori and Sato eds.,Government Deficit and Fiscal Reform in Japan, Chapter 5, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
gGovernment Deficit, Public Investment, and Public Capital in the Transition to an Aging Japan,hJournal of the Japanese and International Economies, 16(4), pp 462-491, 2002.
gTransition to an Aging Japan: Public Pension, Savings, and Capital Taxation,h Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 12, pp. 204-231, 1998.

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:
"Political Decentralization, Subnational Political Capital, and Intergovernmental Transfers in Korea," The American Review of Public Administration, forthcoming.
"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.
   
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Koji Kotani
Associate Professor
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:
Environmental economics, agriculture and natural resource management
Major Publications:
"The Determinants of Household Energy Demand in Rural Beijing: Can Environmental-friendly Technologies Be Effective?," Energy Economics, with Zhang Jingchao, 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 Ching-Yang Lin.
"Optimal Invasive Species Management under Multiple Uncertainties," Mathematical Biosciences, 233 / 1 , pp.32-46, with Makoto Kakinaka and Hiroyuki Matsuda.
"An interplay between Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations on Voluntary Contributions to a Public Good in a Large Economy," Public Choice 147, 2011, Vol.1-2, pp.29-41, with Makoto Kakinaka.
"Optimal Risk Management of Human Alveolar Echinococcosis with Vermifuge," Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol.267, No.3, pp.265-271, 2010 with Naoto Kato, Seiya Ueno and Hiroyuki Matsuda.
   
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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:
Monetary Economics and Policy Analysis
Money and Banking
Financial Economics and Capital Markets
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 and Program Director of IDP
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:
"Vulnerability of Households to Health Shocks: An Indonesian Study," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, with Nguyen, Thi Nhu Nguyet, forthcoming.
"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.
"Whose Income Matters for Health in China? An Examination of the Relative Income Hypothesis," with Albert Park, mimeo.
"Health Insurance and Health Care Utilization by the Elderly: A Natural Experiment in Taiwan," with Albert Park and Ming-Cheng Chang, mimeo.

Hiroaki Miyamoto [Link to the personal website]
Associate Professor
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
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.

Jinhwan Oh
Associate Professor
M.A. in Development Studies, Brown University, 2004
Ph.D. in Regional Science, Cornell University, 2009

Courses:
International Trade
Microeconomics II
Economic Geography
Research Interests:
Development Economics, Regional Economics, International Trade, Microeconomics, Korean Economy.
Major Publications:
"Spatial Adaptation of the MSV Model, with Special Reference to World Development Report 2009 and Korean Examples," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 4(3), 2011.
"Study on Chinese Impact on Economic Sanctions against North Korea," Korea Journal of Defense Analysis, 23(1), 2011, with Jiyong Ryu.
"Mongoliafs International Trade: The Impact of Its Geographical Location," Journal of Econometric Study of Northeast Asia, 7(2), 2011, with Orgilbold Tumurbaarar.
"Spatial Analysis of the Japanese Gas Industry," Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies, forthcoming, 22(2-3). 2010, with Akio Kusakabe.
"Concentration, Congestion and the Dynamics: Spatial Re-modeling of the Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny Model," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 1(2), 2008.

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:
"Spatial Theory and Voting Behavior." in Masahiro Yamada, ed. Tohyo Kodo Kenkyu no Furontfia [Frontiers of Voting Behavior Studies] Tokyo: Brain-Shuppan, 2009.
Book Review of Ofer Feldmanfs The Japanese Political Personality. Kokkagakkai Zasshi, 118, 2005, pp.163-165.
"Nonprofit Organizations and Policy Process: Public Interest Groups and Issue Networks in Japan." Kokkagakkai Zasshi, 115, 2002, pp.132-92.
"Legislative Activities of the Members of the Diet," in the Ikuo Kabashima Seminar, ed.,Gendai Nihon no Seijika Zo [Members of the Japanese Diet: An Analysis of Their Political Activities, 1990-1998], Tokyo: Bokutakusha, 2000.

Hun Myoung Park
Assistant Professor
M.A. in Public Administration, Korea University, Seoul, February 1993
Ph.D. in Public Policy, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, May 2007
Courses:
Public Management
Public Policy Modeling and Management Science
Topics in Data Analysis: Panel Data Models
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.

Shingo Takahashi
Associate Professor
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:
"How Multi-Tasking Job Designs Affect Productivity: Evidence from Australian Coal Mining Industry," Industrial & Labor Relations Review, October 2011.
"Gender Salary Differences in Economics Departments in Japan ," Economics of Education Review, with Ana Maria Takahashi, forthcoming.
"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.

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/IPSP Faculty

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


Maung Aung Myoe Maung Aung Myoe
Associate 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.

Nawalage S. Cooray  [Personal Homepage]
Associate Professor and Program Director of IPSP
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

Osamu Nakamura Osamu Nakamura
Associate Professor
M.A. in Economics, Soka University, 1981

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:
"Energy Balances and Economic Development of China: An econometric analysis," The Journal of Econometric Study of Northeast Asia (JESNA), Vol.7, No.2, 2007.
"Japanese ODA to China and Indonesia in the context of FDI - a comparative multi-sectoral approach," The Journal of Econometric Study of Northeast Asia (JESNA), Vol. 4, No. 2, 2003, with Shishido, S.
"Reform of the public finance and administration: The case of Hokkaido, an econometric analysis," Planning and Administration, Journal of Japan Association for Planning and Administration, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2002
"Induced technical progress and structural adjustment: a multi-sectoral model approach to Japan's growth alternatives," The Journal of Applied Input-Output Analysis (JAIOA), Journal of Pan Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1992, with Shishido, S.
"Commercial policy and restructuring the international economy," The Journal of Asian Economies, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1992, with Shishido, S.

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
Professor
M.A. in Economics, Hitotsubashi University, 1978
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Minnesota, 1983

Courses:
Poverty 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.

John Barnett Welfield John Barnett Welfield
Specially Appointed Professor
Ph.D. in International Relations, Australian National University, 1972

Courses:
History of International Relations
Postwar Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy
Japanese Political Culture & Foreign Policy
Asia and Japan in the Pre War Period
Research Interests:
1) Postwar Japanese political culture, foreign policy and defense
3) International Relations in Eastern Eurasia, the Western Pacific and the Indian Ocean area in the centuries before the appearance of the imperial Western powers
2) Japanese political, diplomatic and military history -1945
4) Contemporary Australian politics andforeign policy.
Major Publications:
"Illusions, Dreams and Nightmares: Japan, the United States and the East Asian Renaissance, " in M. Akif Kayapinar and Ysmail Yaylacy (ed.) Civilizations and World Orders, Lexington Books, forthcoming.
"A Symphony of Hypocricy: Some Thoughts on the American Invasion of Iraq and its Long Term Consequences," Anlayis, Nisan 2004, pp.64-66. (in Turkish)
"A Turning of the Tides. Australia on the Eve of the Twenty First Century," Chiiki Bunka Kenkyu, No. 4, March 2000, pp. 1-17.
"Rock of Ages or Edifice of Clay? The American-Japanese Alliance at the Turn of the Millenium," Pacific Research, Volume 9, No. 2, May 1996, pp. 6-11. (Submitted as a report to the Japanese Ministry of Education).
"Australia's Relations with Japan and the Korean Peninsula, 1981-1990," in Peter Boyce and James Angel(eds.), Diplomacy in the Marketplace, Australia in World Affairs, 1981-1990, The Australian Institute of International Affairs, Longman Cheshire, 1992, pp. 246-276.
An Empire in Eclipse: Japan in the Postwar American Alliance System, The Athlone Press, London, 1988. (awarded the Ohira Masayoshi Memorial Prize)

Tomohito Shinoda Tomohito Shinda (Joint-Appointment with IRI)
Professor, 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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