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Director Biographies

Director Takafusa Shioya

Director
Takafusa Shioya

April 1966 Entered Economic Planning Agency of Japan("EPA")
July 1987 Director, Commercial Policy Division, Industrial Policy Bureau, Ministry of International Trade and Industry (“MITI”)
July 1990 Director, Minister’s Secretariat Division, EPA
June 1993 Deputy Director-General, Social Policy Bureau, EPA
June 1995 Director-General, Planning-Coordination Bureau, National Land Agency
July 1997 Director-General, Coordination Bureau, EPA
June 1998 Administrative Vice-Minister, EPA
February 2000 President, National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)
May 2005 Management Committee Member, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Inter-University Research Institutes Corporation
April 2008 Visiting Professor of J. F. Oberlin University (Current position)
June 2008 Director, Kuraray Co., Ltd. (Current position)
Chairman, Economic Research Association (Current position)