TAKENAKA, Harukata

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  • position: Professor
  • degree: Ph.D. (Political Science), Stanford University
  • specialty: Comparative Politics; International Political Economy
• education and career:
  BA (Law), University of Tokyo, 1995. Joined the Ministry of Finance in 1995. Ph.D., Stanford University, 1998. Chief, Secretarial Headquarters for Administrative Reform of Central Government. Associate Professor at GRIPS, 1999. Professor at GRIPS, 2010-present.
• current research interests:
  (1) Democratisation in Pre-war Japan;
  (2) Analysis of Macroeconomic Policy taken in Japan in late 1980s from Political Perspective.