Education

Doctor in Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University

Career

1983	Joined National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)
1997	Visiting Fellow, Conseil des relations interculturelles du Gouvernement du Québec, Montréal, Canada (granted Canadian Federal Government Research Award)
1997-99	Visiting Fellow, Asia-Australia Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2004	Visiting Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia (granted Japan Foundation Sir Neil Currie Award)
November 2007-Present	Research Fellow, NIRA

NIRA projects

Research on regional policy, including cultural urban policy, and local think tanks

Memberships of academic societies/ Lectureships

Japan Association of International Relations
Japan Association for Australian Studies
Japan Association for Canadian Studies, etc.
Visiting Fellow of the Centre for Asia Pacific Partnership, Osaka University of Economics and Law
Lecturer at the University of Tsukuba, etc.
Member of committees of the City of Yokohama, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, etc.

Major Publications

• IIZASA, S., The Politics of Citizenship in Multicultural Australia, Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha, 2007 (in Japanese) (Awarded the 24th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and the Australia-Japan Foundation Publication Award).
• Prospects for the Creative City, (Contributor and co-editor), in Sasaki, M., and NIRA (eds.), Gakugei Shuppansha, 2007 (in Japanese).
• Towards the Value-Creating City, (Contributor and co-editor), in Nakamaki, H., Sasaki, M., and NIRA (eds.), NTT Publishing Co., Ltd., 2008 (in Japanese).

Awards, etc.

The 24th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize (2008)