Education

March 1974	Graduated from Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
February 1979	Ph.D. in Economics, Graduate School of Economics, University of Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.

Career

September 1978	Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Houston
October 1979	Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Tokyo Metropolitan University
April 1982	Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
December 1993	Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo
April 1996-present	Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
April 2003-present	Representative, Network for Policy Analysis (Japan)
February 2006-present	President, National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)
October 2007-September 2009	Dean, Graduate School of Economics and Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo

Others

Various Government Committee Member, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Cabinet Office Administration, etc.