April 2011 to Date: Professor, Faculty of Law and Economics, Chiba University
April 2004 to March 2011: Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University
October 2002 to March 2004: Economist, Research and Statistics Department, Bank of Japan.
October 1997 to September 2002: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Hokkaido University.
1996 to September 1997: Post Doctoral Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, U.S.A.
1995-96: Visiting Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, U.S.A.
Ph.D., 1996, Yale University, U.S.A (Economics)
M.A., 1990, University of Tokyo, Japan (Economics)
B.S., 1988, University of Tokyo, Japan (Economics)