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
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
Chairman and Director, Resona Holdings, Inc.
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
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 (2016/12-2019/9)
Kenji KUSHIDA
Japan Program Research Scholar, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, (APARC), Stanford 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
Masayuki NAKAGAWA
Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University
Executive Vice President, NIRA
Yuri OKINA
Chairperson, The Japan Research Institute, Limited
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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?
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MY VISION
Becoming an Advanced ESG Nation
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MY VISION
Trumponomics and Japan
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MY VISION
Income Disparity and Japan's Taxation System
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
Toshihiro OKUBO
Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University
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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 (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
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 -
Adjunct Senior Fellow, NIRA
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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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
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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
Executive Vice President, NIRA
Noriyuki YANAGAWA
Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
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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
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MY VISION
Does scientific analysis enhance the quality of policy?
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MY VISION
Towards Full-scale Utilization of Big Data
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MY VISION
Regtech: The Dawn of a New Direction for Regulation
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OPINION PAPER
The Future presented by Japan's Population Trends - Who will bear the Financial Burden of Social Security? -
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MY VISION
Beyond the Threshold towards a “Super-Aged Society”
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OPINION PAPER
Diversification of Modes of Work will Create a New Safety Net