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Haruo SHIMADA Dr. Professor

Haruo Shimada is a President of Chiba University of Commerce.

fter completing graduate studies at Keio University he received his Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he had for forty years been a professor at Keio University.

He has been a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and ESSEC, France.

He also served as chairman of Economic Research Center Fujitsu Research Institute form April 2004 to March 2008.

He has been involved in the formulation of government policy as a special advisor to the Cabinet Office from 2001to 2006.


He is the author of numerous books on Japanese economy, international management and labor problems.

He is very active in not only publishing books and articles in his profession but also writing comments and essays in newspapers and popular magazines. He makes comments frequently in TV programs both in Japan and abroad such as CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS and BBC.

Curriculum Vitae

Name: Haruo SHIMADA
Date of Birth: February 21, 1943. (Tokyo, Japan)
Family: Married, Two daughters.

Current Employment and Position:
President, Chiba University of Commerce
Chairman, Economic Research Center Fujitsu Research Institute
Education:
1965
B.A. in Economics, Economics Department, Keio University
1967
M.A. in Economics, Graduate School, Keio University
1960-70
Fulbright Exchange scholar, Cornell University
School of Industrial and Labor Relations
1970-74
Doctorial Research at Industrial Relations Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1974
Ph.D. in Industrial Relations, University of Wisconsin
Employment:
1967-69
Research assistant, Economics Department, Keio University
1975-82
Associate Professor, Economics Department, Keio University
1978-83
Visiting Principal Research Officer (joint appointment with Keio University), Economics Research Institute, Economics Planning Agency
1980-92
Visiting Researcher (joint appointment), Japan Institute of Labour
1982-07
Professor, Economics Department, Keio University
1986
Visiting Professor, Sloan School, M.I.T.
1987
Exchange Professor, ESSEC

2000-03
Guest Professor, University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology.
2001-06
Special Advisor for Economic and Fiscal Policy to the Cabinet Office
2004-08
Chairman, Economic Research Center Fujitsu Research Institute
2007-
President, Chiba University of Commerce.
His books include the following (publications with *(asterisk) are in Japanese):
The Final Solution to Increase Births and Encourage Child Rearing. (Naoki Atsumi co-authored) DIAMOND Inc., 2006.*
Business Creation From Local Markets. Kanki Publishing Inc., 2006. *
The Employment Creating Structural Reform. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, INC., 2004. *
Seeds for New Businesses Kanki Publishing Inc. , 2004. *
Housing Market Reform. Toyo Keizai Inc., 2003. *
Beyond pains: Demand Generating Structural Reform of Japanese Economy. Toyo Keizai Inc., 2002. *
Future Oriented Structural Reform. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, INC., 2001. *
Japanese Economy: Toward a New Victory. Kodansha Ltd., 2001. *
Scenario for a new Japan. Keizaikai, 2000. *
Families and Economy of Aging Society with Fewer Children. NTT Publishing Co., Ltd., 2000. *
Consumer Industries will Save Japan. NTT Publishing Co., Ltd., 1999. *
Public Sector Evaluation. Toyo Keizai Inc., 1999. *
Local Initiative for Industry Creation. Toyo Keizai Inc., 1999. *
Market Power--The Key to the Resurge of Japanese Economy. PHP Institute, Inc.1999 *
Only One: Reform of Japan's Education. Resonance Co., Ltd., 1998. *
Corporate Tax Reform. Toyo Keizai Inc., 1998. *
Japan’s Re-emergence Plan. Toyo Keizai Inc., 1997. *
Labour Market Reform. Toyo Keizai Inc., 1997. *

Japanese Industries in the 21st Century─Challenges and Strategies for the

21st Century. PHP Institute, Inc., 1996. *
Japan’s Crisis. Kodansha Ltd., 1995. *
Economics of Safety and Security. Iwanami Shoten, 1995. *
Japan’s Guest Workers: Issues and Policies, Redesign for the 21st Century. Chikuma Shobo Publishing Co., Ltd., 1994. *

Harness the Rising Sun--An American Strategy for Managing Japan’s Rise as a Global Power (Nye, J. ed., co-authored). University Press of America, Inc., 1993.
Economics of Humanware Technology. Iwanami Shoten, 1988. *
Labor Economics. Iwanami Shoten, 1987. *
Contemporary Industrial Relations in Japan (Shirai, T. ed., co-authored). University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.
Labor in the Twentieth Century (Galenson, W. and Dunlop, J. eds., co-authored). Academic Press, 1979.