OKAMOTO, Kaoru

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  • Position:
    Professor
  • Degree:
    BS, Tokyo University
  • Specialty:
    Chorology
• Current Research Interests:
  Management failures in Japan and their possible remedies
• Professional Career:
  

  1981	Research Staff Member, Science & Technology Policy Division,
  	OECD(Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation)
  1987	Research Staff Member, Centre for Educational Research & Innovation,
  	OECD(Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation)
  1998	Division Director, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan
  1999	Cabinet Councilor (Member of a Prime Minister's Taskforce)
  2003	Division Director, Ministry of Education Culture, Sports, Science & Technology
  2006	Professor, GRIPS

• Selected publications:
  Japanese Moralism vs. Freedom/Democracy, in Japanese, Chikumashobo, April 2009
  
  Introduction to Class Management, in Japanese, Nihonhyojunsha, August 2008
  
  Management Process Analysis by the Ph.P Method, in Japanese, Shojihomu, January 2008
  
  How to Handle Copyright, in Japanese, Shojihomu, February 2007
  
  Education Policy Discussion to Ruin Japan, in Japanese, Kodansha, January 2006
  
  Copyright for Everybody, in Japanese, Zensharen, March 2005
  
  Introduction to Lifelong Learning Policy, in Japanese, Zensharen, January 2004
  
  Copyright, in Japanese, Iwanamishoten, December 2003
  
  35 Keys to Rationalize Education Policy Discussions, in Japanese, Meijitosho, February 2003
  
  School Management for the Computerized Age, in Japanese, Meijitosho, October 2001
  
  Education of the Rising Sun 21, Zensharen, August 2001
  
  Key Points to Cope with Globalization, in Japanese, Zensharen September 1999
  
  Education in the Land of Mystery, in Japanese, Daiichihokishuppan, May 1997
  
  Lifelong Learning Movement in Japan, Ministry of Education, June 1994
  
  Foreign Students in OECD Countries, Sun Publishing, December 1990
  
  
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