Born 1956 in Hokkaido, Japan. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) in 1979. Withdrew from the doctoral program of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at UTokyo in 1984 (received a doctorate in sociology from UTokyo in 2013). Taught as a teaching assistant in the Faculty of Letters at UTokyo and lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tsukuba before becoming an assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Hitotsubashi University in 1991. Professor at the university from 1999 (professor in the Graduate School of Social Sciences since 2001). Has been conducting a broad range of research on globalizationʼs impact on cities, development, and society. Publications include ʻSekai toshiʼ Tokyo no kozo tenkan: Toshi risutorakucharingu no shakaigaku [The Structural Change of a Global City: Urban Restructuring in Tokyo] (University of Tokyo Press), Ekkyoshatachi no Rosu Anjerusu [Strangers in Los Angeles] (Heibonsha), Kaihatsushugi no kozo to shinsei: sengo Nippon ga damu de mita yume to genjitsu [Structure and Mentality of Developmentalism: Dreams and Realities of Dams in Postwar Japan*] (Ochanomizu Shobo).

* Asterisked titles have been translated from Japanese.

【Speaker at the Windowology Symposium on October 3】