{"id":15809,"date":"2026-04-06T15:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/?p=15809"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T06:46:28","slug":"shigeru-asaba-3-7-2-2-3-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/faculty-en\/15809","title":{"rendered":"NIIHARA Hiroaki , Guest Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Profile<\/h3>\n<p>With a career spanning over 40 years, primarily at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), he played a leading role in Japan\u2019s growth and distribution policies\u2014including \u201cAbenomics\u201d and \u201cNew Capitalism\u201d\u2014under the Abe and Kishida administrations, serving as Director-General of the Bureau of Economic and Industrial Policy and Senior Advisor to the Cabinet. Since leaving government service, he has served as Senior Research Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies, Special Advisor at the NTT Data Institute of Management Research, and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"\/fcom\/wbs\/en\/faculty\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profile With a career spanning over 40 years, primarily at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-15809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-en","tag-faculty-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15810,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15809\/revisions\/15810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/fcom\/wbs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}