Faculty

Born in Okayama Prefecture and grew up in Yokohama City. After graduating a high school, I studied at the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, and completed the M.Eng. and the doctoral program at Kyoto University. I also studied at the School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi, India as a short-term student. Before taking up the current post of professor at the College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University in 2010, I served as: a DC research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; a research associate at Toyohashi University of Technology; a lecturer at the Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences, University of Tsukuba; and an associate professor at the College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University. I received a Doctor of engineering from Kyoto University in 1996, and registered as a first-class architect in 2001.

My research theme is problem-oriented urban policy, urban planning and machizukuri (community-oriented planning). Personally, I am interested in the issues pertaining to shrinking cities characterized by population loss, birthrate decline and aging. I am also working in cooperation with the Research and Development Institute of Regional Information and the Asia-Japan Research Institute in the Osaka Ibaraki Campus of Ritsumeikan University, and am active as a member of the Study Group of Shrinking Cities of the City Planning Institute of Japan.

Urban policy, urban planning, machizukuri (community-oriented planning), shrinking cities

• Urban Planning and Machizukuri Research Project (seminar for graduate students)
• Research Report (RADIANT)
  What are the Policies for Preserving Kyoto’s Townscape for the Next Generation?