• Professor, International Political Economy of Food and Agriculture
  • Director of the International Graduate Proframme for East Asia Sustainable Economic Development Studies
  • Director of the Economics Branch Office of Kyoto University Asian Studies Unit (KUASU)
  • Director of the Asian Platform for Global Sustainability & Transcultural Studies (AGST)
• Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
• Yoshida-hommachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan
• Tel: 075-753-3451, Fax: 075-753-3492
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• English for Economics (undergraduate level: 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2013@Kyoto Univ)
  
• Political Economy of Agriculture (undergraduate level: 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2024...@Kyoto Univ)
  
• International Agricultural Policy (undergraduate level: 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023...@Kyoto Univ)
  
• International Political Economy of Food and Agriculture (graduate level: 2005~ every year@Kyoto Univ)
  
• International Agribusiness Studies (graduate level: 2011~ every year@Kyoto Univ)
  
• Marx Reading (graduate level: 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011@Kyoto Univ)
  
• On-site Research Training A/B (international graduate programme: 2009~ every semester@Kyoto Univ)
  
• Comparative Industry Policy (international graduate programme: 2010~2018@Kyoto Univ)
  
• Comparative Development Studies (international graduate programme: 2012~ every year@Kyoto University)
  
• Political Economy of Governance (international graduate programme: 2019@Kyoto University)
  
• Critical Consumption Studies (international graduate programme: 2020~ every year@Kyoto University)
  
• Introduction to Political Economy (undergraduate level: 1995~2004@Hokkaido Univ)
  
• Agricultural Marketing (graduate level: 1995~2004@Hokkaido Univ)
  
• Agribusiness and Food Industry (undergraduate level: 1999~2001@Rakuno Gakuen Univ)
  

• Critical Theory of Agricultural Biotechnology (ethics of biotechnology, politics of ethics)
• International Political Economy and Sociology of Food, Agriculture, and Biotechnology
• Agribusiness and Corporate Social Responsibility

• Year of Birth: 1968
• Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
• Nationality: Japanese
• Languages: Japanese (native) and English
• Status: Married

• 4/1987 to 3/1991: Degree Received, B.A. in Economics, Kyoto University, Department of Economics
• 4/1991 to 3/1993: Degree Received, M.A. in Economic Policy, Kyoto University, Graduate School of Economics
• 4/1993 to 6/1995: Doctoral course at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Economics, left without a doctoral degree
• 9/2001: Degree Received, PhD in Agricultural Economics, Hokkaido University
• 11/2011: Completion of Training Course on Understanding Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Geneva Academy of International HUmanitarian Law and Human Rights

• 6/1991 to 4/1995: Research Assistant, Kyoto Agriculture Committee
• 4/1995 to 6/1995: Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
• 7/1995 to 3/2005: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan
• 7/2002 to 9/2004: Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Social Sciences, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
• 3/2005 to 11/2010: Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
• 12/2010 to date: Professor, Gradaute School of Economics, Kyoto University

• 4/1999: Agricultural Marketing Society of Japan
• 4/2003: Agricultural Economics Society of Japan
• 11/2004: Foundation of Agricultural Sciences of Japan