education and career:
University of Tokyo College of Science, 1956-1958
University of Tokyo School of Medicine, 1958-1962(Doctor of Medicine, 1962)
Graduate School of Life Sciences, University of Tokyo, 1963-1966(Doctor of Medical Science, 1966)
Internship, residency, fellowship, and junior staff in medicine and nephrology, First Department of Medicine/ Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo, 1962-1969
Research Associate, Department of Biochemistry, Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, 1969-1971
Senior fellow, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, 1971-1974
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, 1973-1974
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine, 1974-1977
Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, 1977-1979
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, 1979-1985
Chief, Nephrology Division, Wadsworth Veterans Administration Medical Center, 1980-1985
Associate Professor of Medicine, Fourth Department of Medicine, University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine, 1983-1989
Professor and Chairman, First Department of Medicine, University of Tokyo Faculty of Medicine, 1989-1996
Dean and Professor of Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, 1996-2002
Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo, 1997-present
Director and Professor, the Institute of Medical Science, Tokai University, 2002-2004
President of the Science Council of Japan, 2003-2006
Professor, Research Institute of Science and Technology, Tokai University,2004‐2006
Adjunct Professor, the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, 2004-2007
Commissioner of the Commission for Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization, 2005-present
Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2006
Academic Fellow, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, 2009-present "Innovation 25", Prime Minister of Japan and His Cabinet
current research interests:
Healthcare Policy, Science and Innovation
