Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Sophia University
Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Sophia University, Japan. Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, Berkeley. Author of Welfare Through Work: Conservative Ideas, Partisan Dynamics, and Social Protection in Japan (Cornell University Press, 2012), Making Our Voices Heard—Revival of Representative Democracy (in Japanese, Iwanami Shoten, 2015), editor of Japan’s Women Representatives (in Japanese, Asahi Shimbun Shuppansha, 2016), co-editor of Gender Quotas in Comparative Perspectives: Understanding the Increase in Women Representatives (in Japanese, Akashi Shoten, 2014)．Academic advisor to the Working Team of the All-partisan Caucus for the Promotion of Gender Equality in Politics.