Research Interests
History of Economic Thought, Central Banking in Theory and in Practice
Academic Degrees
MA in Economics, University of Toronto, 1994
Short Bio
My research interests are historical relationship between economic crises and economics and central banking in theory and in practice. Visiting fellows at Cambridge University, George Mason University, and Columbia University. Vice President of the History of Economics Society (2016 to 2017), Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan (March 2018 to March 2023). Books include The Showa Depression (2004: Nikkei Prize for Excellent Book in Economics), Economic Crises and policy Responses (2009: Ishibashi Tanzan Prize), and Japan’s Great Stagnation and Abenomics (2015).
