RESEARCH FELLOWS
NIRA’s research efforts are advanced under the leadership of its Executive Committee and adjunct senior fellows.
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA (2015/11-2018/3)
Noriko ARAI
Professor, Information and Society Research Division, and Director, Research Center for Community Knowledge, National Institute of Informatics
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA (2021/4-2022/3)
Daisuke FURUTA
Founder, media-collab, Inc
Editorial supervisor, SPACE NIRA
Tatsuo HATTA
President, Asian Growth Research Institute
Director, Center for Policy Analysis, Keizai Doyukai
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA (2015/5-2018/6)
Makoto HAYAKAWA
Professor, Faculty of Law, Rissho University
Executive Vice President, NIRA
Kazuhiro HIGASHI
Senior Advisor, Resona Holdings, Inc.
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MY VISION
Japan's Food Security Challenges Considered From Domestic and Global Perspectives by Hiroko Kuno, Akihiko Hirasawa, Mitsuo Fujio, Nobuyuki Kikuchi, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
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MY VISION
Financing Smart Cities by Lance Kawaguchi, Hiroto Asakawa, Daniel Stander, Takeharu Kikuchi, Shojiro Nakamura, Hideo Yamamoto
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MY VISION
Changing Ways of Living and Working by Alexander Farfurnik, Yuji Ueda, Seigo Hara, Yoshihisa Aono, Daisuke Torii
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MY VISION
The African Economies Today by Solomon K. Maina, M.B.S., German Cufre, Hidekazu Tanaka, Ashraf Patel, Tadashi Yokoyama
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA (2019/4-2022/3)
Asei ITO
Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Executive Vice President(full time), NIRA
Reiko Kanda
Senior Director
Chairperson, NIRA
Yasufumi KANEMARU
Chairman and President, Group CEO, Future Corporation, Inc
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Kiwamu KATO
Senior Architect, Future Corporation, Inc
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Kazuko KAWAMOTO
Research Associate, Russian Research Center, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA (2016/12-2019/9)
Kenji KUSHIDA
Japan Program Research Scholar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, (APARC), Stanford University
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OPINION PAPER
Is the lack of “Unicorns” in Japan good news or bad news? -Injecting a historical institutional perspective into debates about Japan’s startup ecosystem - by Kenji Kushida
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MY VISION
Regtech: The Dawn of a New Direction for Regulation by Tim O'Reilly, Masataka Hayakawa, Takamasa Sasaki, Hiroyuki Morikawa, Kenji Kushida
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Nozomi MATSUI
Professor, Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropoitan University
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA (2015/8-2019/11)
Ryuzo MIYAO
Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Jiro MIZUSHIMA
Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA (2018/12-2021/3)
Masayuki NAKAGAWA
Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University
Executive Vice President, NIRA
Yuri OKINA
Chairperson, The Japan Research Institute, Limited
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MY VISION
The Feared Acceleration of Decline in Japan's Birthrate Due to COVID-19
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OPINION PAPER
Public Acceptance of an Increase in the Burden of Medical Expenses for the Elderly - Considering the Issues based on the Results of a Deliberative Survey (2)- by Yuri Okina
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OPINION PAPER
Characteristics and Issues of Japan's Response to COVID-19 by Yuri Okina
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MY VISION
The Road to Realization of a Carbon-Free Society
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OPINION PAPER
What Can We Learn From Germany’s Response to COVID-19?- Medical Preparedness / Flexible Responses / Management of Public Funds- by Yuri Okina, Ortwin Renn, Ansgar Lohse
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OPINION PAPER
Why did Sweden Choose not to Lock Down? - Constitutional provisions and national character are the background factors -
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OPINION PAPER
Responses to COVID-19: Considering the Evidence -How should we prepare for a second wave?-
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MY VISION
Towards a Society in which Dementia Sufferers can live their Lives as they wish
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MY VISION
How should we understand the US-China Confrontation? by Satoshi Machidori , Hiroshi Nakanishi, Shin Kawashima, Masahiko Hosokawa, Martin Wolf
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MY VISION
Becoming an Advanced ESG Nation by Hiro Mizuno, Akiyoshi Oba, Tsutomu Igaki, Keisuke Takegahara, Rintaro Tamaki
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MY VISION
Trumponomics and Japan by Glenn Hubbard, Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Fukunari Kimura, Takeo Kikkawa, Yukio Okamoto
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MY VISION
Income Disparity and Japan's Taxation System by Ayako Kondo, Shigeki Morinobu, Motohiro Sato, Keiichiro Kobayashi, Takashi Oshio
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Toshihiro OKUBO
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
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RESEARCH REPORT
The Lessons Learned from Telework and Pandemic Countermeasures: The Impact and Challenges of COVID-19 in Japan and the Country's post-COVID Prospects by Toshihiro Okubo, Atsushi Inoue, Kozue Sekijima
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OPINION PAPER
The Pandemic Policy Dilemma in Japan: Stopping COVID's Spread or Mitigating its Economic Impact by Toshihiro Okubo
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OPINION PAPER
Expansion of Disparities During the COVID-19 Pandemic - The Income Gap and the Digitalization Gap - by Toshihiro Okubo
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OPINION PAPER
Telework as a Long-Term Solution: Problems and Contradictions to Overcome by Toshihiro Okubo
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Sonoe OMODA
Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA (2015/11-2020/9)
Shinya OUCHI
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University
President, NIRA
Masaki TANIGUCHI
Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo
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MY VISION
The "New Reality" That the Metaverse Will Open Up to Us
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OPINION PAPER
What Constitutes a Policy Vision That the Public Can Accept? by Masaki Taniguchi
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RESEARCH REPORTS
Economy, Society and Culture, and Globalization by Masaki Taniguchi, Jiro Mizushima, Toru Yoshida, Sho Niikawa, Hirohito Yasoda, Sho Muto, Mitsuo Koga, Takayuki Nishiyama, Jeyong Sohn
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MY VISION
Can the News Media Create an Unfragmented Public Sphere?
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MY VISION
Stagnation in Japan Studies Abroad
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MY VISION
Reform in the Reiwa Era
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MY VISION
Confronting the “Post-Truth Era”
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OPINION PAPER
How can Japan overcome Two-fold Political Alienation?- The Destabilization of the Middle Class and the Emptying-out of the Political Mainstream - by Masaki Taniguchi
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA (2020/5-2021/3)
Takuya TSUJI
Professor, Graduate School of Law, Hitotsubashi University
Executive Vice President, NIRA
Shigeki UNO
Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
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MY VISION
"Long-Term Thinking" Will Change the Future
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RESEARCH REPORTS
Local Empowerment in the Era of Digitalization by Shigeki Uno
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OPINION PAPER
Towards the Era of a New Sense of Ownership -What is Ownership?- by Shigeki Uno, Yuki Uchida, Retz Fujisawa, Emi Yoneda
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MY VISION
Preparedness for Response to Unknown Infectious Diseases Among Regional and Local Government Leaders
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MY VISION
Realizing Human-centered Policy through Design Thinking
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MY VISION
The Potential of Germany’s “Soziale Stadt” Program by Masako Murota, Kenji Yamamoto, Satoshi Baba, Shigeaki Oba, Heizou Takamatsu
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OPINION PAPER
The Possibilities of Local Commonsn by Shigeki Uno, Makoto Hayakawa
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MY VISION
A New Stage for the Furusato Nozei System by Tatsuo Ikeda, Ryo Tanaka, Issei Nishikawa, Naruhiko Kuroda, Mariko Mikami
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Yasushi WATANABE
Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University
Executive Vice President, NIRA
Noriyuki YANAGAWA
Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
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MY VISION
Considering the Responsibilities of the Public and Private Sectors in the Face of the Increasing Incidence of Cyberattacks
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MY VISION
Positioning Vocational Training and Recurrent Education as "Lifelong Learning"
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OPINION PAPER
Coping with the Economic Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic - The need for international coordination and cooperation by André Sapir, Franz Waldenberger, Glen S. Fukushima, Hubertus Bardt, Noriyuki Yanagawa, Shujie Yao, Tomas Kåberger
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MY VISION
Does scientific analysis enhance the quality of policy? by Daiji Kawaguchi, Yohei Kobayashi, Makiko Nakamuro, Martyn Hammersley, Tsutomu Watanabe
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MY VISION
Towards Full-scale Utilization of Big Data by Jun Nakamura, Hiroshi Mano, Tristan W. Chong, Takuya Kitagawa, Dietmar Harhoff
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MY VISION
Regtech: The Dawn of a New Direction for Regulation by Tim O'Reilly, Masataka Hayakawa, Takamasa Sasaki, Hiroyuki Morikawa, Kenji Kushida
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OPINION PAPER
The Future presented by Japan's Population Trends - Who will bear the Financial Burden of Social Security? - by Akira Morita, Yasushi Iwamoto, Takashi Oshio, Hitoshi Suzuki, Nanako Tamiya, Tadashi Fukui, Noriyuki Yanagawa
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MY VISION
Beyond the Threshold towards a “Super-Aged Society” by Tetsuo Tsuji, Yasuko Hashimoto, Kenji Toba, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Kohei Onozaki
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OPINION PAPER
Diversification of Modes of Work will Create a New Safety Net by Noriyuki Yanagawa