• Professional Career

・Adjunct Instructor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo, April 2015-present.
・Adjunct Instructor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Saitama University, Saitama, April-July 2015.
・Research Fellow, Social Science Research Institute, International Christian University, Tokyo, April 2014-present
・Assistant Professor (full time), Department of Political Science, Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois, 2007-2009
・Assistant Professor (full time), Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, 2005-2007
・National Election Studies (NES) Research Fellow (full time), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2004-2005
・Correspondent, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) Washington, D.C., 1991- 1996.

• Selected publications

Assessment and Learning: the ICE Approach. (translation, authored by Sue Fostaty Young and Robert Wilson). 2013. The Active Learning Lab or Shutaiteki Manabi Kenkyujo (Tokyo).
New Directions in the Sociology of Aging. (co-editor with Linda Waite and Barney Cohen). 2013. The National Academies Press.
“Sidney Verba: His Voice.” (with Clyde Wilcox) in Masters of Political Science. Ed: Donatella Campus and Gianfranco Pasquino. 2009. European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Press.
Book review. Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections. 2008. By Markus Prior. (Cambridge University Press, 2007.) Journal of Politics 70 (3): 890-891.
“Electoral Origins of Partisan Polarization in Congress: Debunking the Myth” in Extensions, the Journal of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, 2005.

• Social contributions

Volunteer management consultant (2012-2013)
Japanese American Care Fund (Washington, DC), Casa Chirilagua (Washington, DC)

• Invited lectures

・“Deciphering the U.S. political institutions: the presidency and the Congress” presented at Chuo University (December 2013)
・“The U.S. midterm elections: an analysis” presented at Chuo University (November 2014)
・“Japan at a crossroads” presented at Incheon University (Incheon, South Korea; May 2015)
・“The new challenges in global health” presented at the Yogo Teachers’ Network workshop (June 2015)

• ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

・National Election Studies (ANES) fellow, University of Michigan, 2004-2005.
・Departmental fellowship, Department of Government, Georgetown University, 1997-2003.
・Recipient of the inaugural Warren E. Miller Award for the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) summer program in quantitative methods, 2002.
・Departmental scholarship to attend the ICPSR summer program in quantitative methods, Department of Government, Georgetown University

• E-mail

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