| 1978 |
Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo |
| 1980 |
Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo |
| 1980 |
Engineer, Nippon Light Metal Company, Tokyo ( – 1981) |
| 1981 |
Research Associate, School of Engineering, Meiji University, Tokyo ( – 1988) |
| 1986 |
Doctor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo |
| 1988 |
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Informatics and Management, Sanno Institute of Management, Kanagawa ( – 1990) |
| 1990 |
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Faculty and Graduate School of Business Administration, Asia University, Tokyo ( – 1995) |
| 1995 |
Professor, College and Graduate School of Business Administration, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto ( – 2003) |
| 1998 |
Professor, Institute for Environment and Design Management, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto ( – 2003) |
| 2003 |
Professor, Waseda Business School (April/2003 – March/2007: Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, April/2007 – current: Graduate School of Commerce), Waseda University, Tokyo |
| 2004 |
Director, Strategic Design Management Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo ( – 2008) |
| 2007 |
Professor, Waseda Business School, Graduate School of Commerce), Waseda University, Tokyo |
| 2008 |
Professor, Doctorate Program, Marketing and International Business Track, Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University, Tokyo |
| 2008 |
Visiting Professor, ESSEC (École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales) Business School, Cergy, France ( – 2009) |
| 2012 |
Exchange Scholar, EMLYON (École de management de Lyon), France ( – 2012) |
| 2012 |
Director, Luxury Branding Module (– 2015: LVMH Moët Hennessy. Louis Vuitton Chair), Waseda University, Tokyo ( – 2018) |
| 2012 |
Director, Luxury Branding Module, Waseda Business School
LVMH Moët Hennessy. Louis Vuitton Chair Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo |
| 2012 |
Director, Luxury Branding Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo ( – 2021) |
| 2014 |
Visiting Professor, Sciences Po Paris (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris), France ( – 2014) |
| 2015 |
Exchange Scholar, Université Paris-Dauphine, France ( – 2015) |
| 2015 |
Visiting Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita ( – 2023) |
| 2016 |
Professor, Waseda Business School, Graduate School of Business & Finance, Waseda University, Tokyo |
| 2017 |
Visiting Professor, Sciences Po Paris (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris), France ( – 2017) |
| 2019 |
Visiting Professor, Sciences Po Paris (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris), France ( – 2019) |
| 2020 |
Exchange Scholar, Sciences Po Paris (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris), France ( – 2020) |
| 2020 |
Exchange Scholar, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany ( – 2021) |
| 2023 |
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Professional Institute of International Fashion, Tokyo ( – 2024) |
| 1987 - 1990 |
Councillor, Association of Atmospheric Environment of Japan |
| 1988 - 1989 |
Committee Member, Committee for Research and Constitution of New Industrial Structural Model, Kanagawa Prefecture |
| 1989 - 1991 |
Committee Member, Research Committee of Social Infrastructure, Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc. |
| 1994 - 1998 |
Committee Member, Subcommittee of Kansei Engineering, Liaison Committee of Material Engineering, the Science Council of Japan |
| 1997 - 2000 |
Expertise Member, Science Council Committee (Subcommittee of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research) the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology in Japan (Reviewer of the Fixed-term Specification of "Kansei Engineering" of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research |
| 1997 - 1998 |
Member, Committee for Survey and Research of Potential Reverberations in the Japanese Economy Caused by the Regional Design Center of the Next Generation, Sanwa Research Institute Inc., Delegated by the Ministry of Import, Trade and Industry |
| 1998 - 2001 |
Member, Subcommittee of Kansei Engineering, Liaison Committee of Human and Engineering, the Science Council of Japan |
| 1998 - 2004 |
Councillor, Japanese Society of Science of Design |
| 1998 - 2008 |
Director, Japan Society of Kansei Engineering |
| 2001 - 2023 |
Committee Member, the Deming Prize Committee, Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) |
| 2002 |
Expert Commission Member, the Connoisseur of Venture Business, Kyoto City |
| 2003 - 2004 |
Committee Member, Surveillance Committee of National Forum for Entrepreneurship and Venture Firm, Japan Productivity Center Inc. |
| 2004 - 2011 |
Committee Member, Promotion Committee for Fair and Structural Reform of Waste Management Industry, Waste Management Foundation, Delegated by the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2004 - 2022 |
Expertise Member, Conference for Settlement of on the Scheme of Reduction of the Gross Volume of Exhaust Nitrogen Oxides and Particulate Matters from Automobile, Kanagawa Prefecture |
| 2005 |
Member, Committee of Eco-Products and Corporate Strategy, Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc., Delegated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2005 - 2008 |
Committee Member, Award Committee for Excellent IR Companies, JASDAQ Securities Exchange Co. Ltd. |
| 2005 - 2009 |
Director, Association of Product Development and Management of Japan |
| 2005 - 2006 |
Committee Member, Advisory Committee of Design Management in the Fashion Industries, Institute for the Fashion Industries |
| 2005 - 2006 |
Chairperson, Highway-Net Saitama, Tokorozawa Office, First Branch in Kanto Area, Japan Highway Public Corporation (present: East Nippon Expressway Co. Ltd.) |
| 2005 - 2007 |
Vice-President, Japan Society of Kansei Engineering |
| 2006 - 2007 |
Chairperson, Committee of Surveillance for Possibilities of Visualization of 3R Systemization of Office Furniture, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co. Ltd., Delegated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2007 - 2008 |
Technical Advisor, Research Group of Innovation of Development Process, Chubu Area Business Unit, Japan Management Association |
| 2007 - 2020 |
Councillor, Japan Environmental Sanitation Center |
| 2008 |
Chairperson, Brand Strategy Council of Saitama Prefecture |
| 2008 - 2009 |
Member, SMEI (Sales and Marketing Executive International) Japan Chapter, Global Management Academy |
| 2008 - 2009 |
Member, Committee for Peer Review and Accreditation of "Self Review and Evaluation Report FY2008," Graduate School of Design Management, Takarazuka University of Art and Design |
| 2008 - current |
Editorial Advisory Board Member, International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences (Emerald Publishing) |
| 2009 - current |
Counselor, Japan Society of Kansei Engineering |
| 2009 - 2011 |
Member, Research Committee for Management by Quality Costing, Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) |
| 2009 - 2010 |
Expertise Advisor, Research for Promotion of Policies for Self-standing of Kanto Wide Area Block in FY 2009, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co. Ltd., Delegated by the Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2010 - 2016 |
Committee Member, Research Committee of Promoting Business of Re-use of Used Products, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co. Ltd., Delegated by the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2010 - 2012 |
Expertise Member, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Reviewer of the Discipline and Research Field of “Business Administration,” Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research) |
| 2010 - 2014 |
Branding Advisor, Chocolat Concours Business Unit, OGID Institute Co. (Involved in Extramural Business) |
| 2010 - 2016 |
Auditor, NPO EcoDesign Promotion Network |
| 2011 - current |
Executive Director, Association of Product Development and Management, Japan |
| 2011 - current |
Advisor, Waseda Symphony Orchestra Tokyo |
| 2011 - 2012 |
Committee Member, Wastes Working Group of “Basic Policy for the Green Contract Law Project” in FY 2011, Minister's Secretariat, the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2011 - 2014 |
Committee Member, Research Committee of Growth Engine for the Environment, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co. Ltd./ Nomura Research and Information Co. Ltd., Delegated by the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2011 - 2015 |
External Corporate Auditor, EPOCH Co. Ltd. (Involved in Extramural Business) |
| 2011 - 2012 |
Chairperson, Committee for Promotion of Information of Fair Waste Management Companies in FY 2011, Hakuhodo Co. Ltd., Delegated by the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2012 - 2013 |
Committee Member, Expertise Committee for “Basic Policy for the Green Contract Law Project” in FY 2012, Intage Inc., Delegated by the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2012 - 2013 |
Committee Member, Research Committee of Venous Resource Industry in Asia Scale and prospect of Venous Industry in Japan, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co. Ltd., Delegated by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2012 - 2016 |
Representative, Japanese Society for Quality Control |
| 2013 - 2023 |
Committee Member, The Nikkei QC Literature Prize Selection Committee (Nikkei Inc. and the Deming Prize Committee) |
| 2013 - 2014 |
Committee Member, Research Committee of Gross Market of the Environmental Business, Nomura Research and Information Co. Ltd., Delegated by the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2013 - 2014 |
Committee Member, Research Committee of Growth Engine through the Environmental Business, Nomura Research and Information Co. Ltd., Delegated by the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2013 - current |
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) |
| 2014 - current |
Editorial Board Member and Regional Editor Japan, Luxury Research Journal (The Inderscience Publishers) |
| 2014 - 2023 |
Committee Member, Waste and Recycling Subcommittee, Committee on Industrial Science and Technology Policy and Environment, the Industrial Structure Council, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2014 - 2015 |
Committee Member, Research Committee of Promoting Business of Re-use of Used Renewable Energy Products, Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc., Delegated by the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2014 - 2015 |
Chairperson, Research Committee of "the Survey and the Promotion of Environmental Business in Kanto Wide Area in FY 2014, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co. Ltd., Delegated by the Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2014 - 2015 |
Committee Member, Research Committee of "the Research for Making Human Resources Strategy to Maintain International Competitiveness of Japanese Leather Goods Industry," Nomura Research and Information Co. Ltd., Delegated by the National Federation of Small Business Associations |
| 2014 - 2015 |
Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on Customer Experience Management/Marketing Branding, Science Journal of Business and Management, Vol.3, Iss.2-1, 2015 (Science Publishing Group) |
| 2015 - current |
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Marketing Trends (the Marketing Trends Association (Paris–Venice Association) |
| 2015 - 2020 |
External Director, EPOCH Co. Ltd. (Involved in Extramural Business) |
| 2015 - current |
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Global Fashion Marketing: Bridging Fashion and Marketing (Routledge/ Taylor & Francis Group) |
| 2015 - 2016 |
Guest Editor, Special Issue on ISME 2015, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.20, No.4, 2016 (Fuji Technology Press Ltd) |
| 2016 - 2017 |
Committee Member, Program of Support for Green Growth of Industrial Waste Treatment Business, Mitsubishi Research Institute Inc./ Mizuho Information & Research Institute, Inc., Delegated by the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2016 - 2017 |
Judge, Branding of Local Resources (Traditional Crafts), Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2016 - 2017 |
Committee Member, Research Committee for "the Survey and the Promotion of Technology Seeds of Universities and Public Research Institutes for Prevention of Industrial Pollution in Kanto Wide Area in FY 2014", Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co. Ltd., Delegated by the Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2016 - 2017 |
Committee Member, Research Committee of “Promotion Policy for Industrial Waste Treatment Business”, Mizuho Information & Research Institute, Inc., Delegated by the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2016 - 2019 |
Expertise Member, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Reviewer of the Branch Specification of "Commerce" of Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research) |
| 2016 - current |
Executive Director, NPO EcoDesign Promotion Network |
| 2016 – current |
President, Kansei Products SIG, Japan Society of Kansei Engineering |
| 2016 – current |
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering (Japan Society of Kansei Engineering) |
| 2017 - 2019 |
Vice President, Association of Product Development and Management, Japan |
| 2017 |
Judge, Committee for Branding of Local Resources (Local Brands), Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2018 |
Judge, Committee for Branding of Local Resources (Local Brands), Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2018 |
Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Frontier of Kansei Products Research," Journal of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering, Vol.16, No.3, 2018 |
| 2018 |
Committee Member, Research Committee of “Promotion Policy for Industrial Waste Treatment Business, Mizuho Information & Research Institute, Inc., Delegated by the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2018 - current |
Committee Member, Subcommittee of Safety, Security, and Risk to Engineering System, Joint Committee of Comprehensive Engineering/Mechanical Engineering, the Science Council of Japan |
| 2018 - 2020 |
Representative, NPO Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology |
| 2018 - 2019 |
Committee Member, Revising Committee for Fair and Structural Reform of Waste Management Industry, Japan Industrial Waste Management Foundation, Delegated by the Ministry of the Environment |
| 2019 - current |
President, The Association of Decoration Technologies |
| 2019 - 2023 |
President, Association of Product Development and Management, Japan |
| 2020 |
Judge, Branding Promotion Project for Japanese Liquor, Liquor Tax and Industry Division, National Tax Agency |
| 2020 |
Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Research on Kansei Products in Daily Life," Journal of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering, Vol.18, No.3, 2020 |
| 2020 - current |
Director, NPO Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology |
| 2020 - 2022 |
Advisory Board Member, Branding Promotion Project for Japanese Liquor, Liquor Tax and Industry Division, National Tax Agency |
| 2020 - 2021 |
Judge, "the Support Project for the Inspection of the Feasibility of the Business Model in Environmental Protection Field or the Circular Economy," Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co. Ltd., Delegated by the Kanto Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry |
| 2021 - current |
Editorial Board Member, and Consulting Editor, International Journal of Management Reviews (the British Academy of Management, John Wiley & Sons) |
| 2022 – 2025 |
Councillor, Japanese Society of Science of Design |
| 2022 |
Branding Advisor, Nagahori Corporation (Involved in Extramural Business) |
| 2022 |
Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Kansei Products Save Japan, Part 1," Journal of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering, Vol.20, No.2, 2022 |
| 2022 |
Guest Editor, Special Issue on "Kansei Products Save Japan, Part 2," Journal of Japan Society of Kansei Engineering, Vol.20, No.3, 2022 |
| 2022 - 2024 |
Committee Member, Accreditation Committee for Professional Graduate Business Schools, Japan University Accreditation Association |
| 2022 - 2025 |
External Director, Nagahori Corporation (Involved in Extramural Business) |
| 2022 - current |
External Director, EPOCH Co. Ltd. (Involved in Extramural Business) |
| 2022 - 2025 |
Member, Committee for Peer Review and Accreditation of "Self Review and Evaluation Report," Graduate School of Management of Technology, Nippon Institute of Technology |
| 2023 - 2024 |
Chair, Business School Subcommittee No.2, Japan University Accreditation Association |
| 2023 - 2024 |
Chair, the Public Relations and Publications Committee, NPO Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology |
| 2023 - 2024 |
External Reviewer, Urawa University |
