Takao Komine

Professor Takao Komine graduated from the University of Tokyo and joined the Economic Planning Agency (currently the Cabinet Office) of the Japanese government. He served as director-general of the Research Bureau at the agency and director-general of the National and Regional Planning Bureau at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. He served as professor at Hosei University from 2003 prior to assuming his current position in 2017. His publications include Nihon keizai no kozotenkan (Structural reform of the Japanese economy), Jinko fuka-shakai (Population onus society), and Heisei no keizai (Economy in the Heisei era) (winner of the Yomiuri- Yoshino Sakuzo Prize).