DECEMLAND JAPAN Country Profile
JAPAN GLOBAL SUMMARY TABLE IN FINAL PAGES Decemland World is a global initiative. Our goal is to dream of, imagine, design and communicate a beautiful long-term future for every country and territory and for the World. We think it’s possible to reach a World without extreme poverty before 2050, a World of Eutopia and Cornucopia. We have launched a worldwide recruitment process identifying and subsequently contacting millions of experts in every corner of the globe. Decemland Japan encourages individual Experts to join the best team ever design to serve the longterm public interest of society. We are contacting thousands of Experts in every country and territory. Our goal is to put together a dream team in Japan able to identify the great challenges of the twentyfirst century. Figures updated as of 26-May-2014
JAPAN POPULATION (2014) 127.103.388 JAPAN EXPERTS CONTACTED 6.075 EXPERTS PER 100,000 PEOPLE CONTACTED 5 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED 5 RESPONSE RATE 0.10% EXPERTS CONTACTED IN ASIA 263.987 AVERAGE TEAM SIZE IN ASIA 18,29 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED IN ASIA 567 EXPERTS WHO HAVE JOINED WORLDWIDE 2.739 Japan Country Coordinator/s
TATSUYUKI OTA
Tatsuyuki Ota is currently teaching at Nihon University in Tokyo as a part-time professor while he does consulting job for Japanese government as a development consultant. During his 30 years of teaching career as a full professor, he taught international economics, development economics and macro economics and he retired in 2005 from Tokyo University. He graduated from Keio University with BA in economics, earned his MA in urban studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1973 and was later awarded Ph.D by Tokyo University. During the time he had undertaken extensive field surveys in over twenty developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America as a consultant to various institutions such as International Development Center of Japan, UN ESCAP in Bangkok, Thailand, OECD, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He was a visiting scholars and researcher in such institutions as Growth Center at Yale University (1979), Center for Computational Research in Economics and Management (CCREM) at MIT (1983), Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) in Germany (1994), Bureau d’Economie Theorique et Applique (BETA) at the University of Strasbourg, in France (2001-02). He was a Fulbright visiting professor on Asian Scholar in-Residence Program (ASIR) at Gannon University in Pennsylvania where he taught during the period of 1985-86. His major publication includes Asian Development Path -- the Role of Political Regime and Industrial Policy – (in Japanese), besides many articles in the field of economic development. His current research interest revolves around international flow of capital in times of globalization as compared with the first globalization of the late 19th century. He is a member of American Economic Association, Japan Association of International Economics, Japan Association for Asian Studies, Association of Japanese-English Language Culture, and a former member of French L’Association of Tier-Monde. His working languages are Japanese, English, French with some minor German.
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