Research Director

Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living

3-22 Kana Nishikicho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101

TEL: (03) 3233-6450
FAX: (03) 3233-6453

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• ART, ART HISTORY, LITERATURE AND PERFORMING ARTS
  calligraphy; textiles; traditional dance
• BUSINESS, TRADE AND ECONOMICS
  advertising; consumer behavior; consumer products; corporate identity; marketing, distribution; public relations; US corporations in Japan
• COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION AND MEDIA
  mass media, mobile internet business
• EDUCATION
  women's education
• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  aging and life cycle; contemporary society; cultural and social change; cultural anthropology; demographics; population and demography

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Editor, Chief Editor, Media-Info, 1985-88; Lecturer, Oriental Languages, University of California-Berkeley, 1974-75, 1988-90

IN US: repeated brief trips.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

Japanese Seniors in Pursuit of Their Own Enjuoyment (1999); Meet Today's Japanese "Seikatsusha" (1999); Japanese Single Women Living in a World Without Signposts (Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living, 1993); Japanese Salarymen at the Crossroads (Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living, 1991); From Family Ties to Financial Ties: Shifting Values in the Japanese Family (Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living, 1989); Japanese Seniors, Pioneers in the Era of Aging Populations (Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living, 1987).