LL.M., Osaka University, 1973

LL.M., Yale Law School, 1975

Books (in Japanese)

Law and Metaphor (Kohbundo, 1991)

Legal Informatics (Yuhikaku, 2006) (co-authored with Kagayama et al.)

Articles (those in English only)

Law and Bureaucracy in Modern Japan, in 41 Stanford Law Review 1627 (1989)(review essay: Upham, Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan).

General Jurisprudence and Elucidation of Its Assumptions, in REVOLUTIONS IN LAW AND LEGAL THOUGHT 31 (Bankowski ed., Aberdeen Univ. Pr.,1991).

Toward a New Generation of Comparative Law: A Framework for Bilateral Collaboration in Law & Development Projects in Asia, 23 Wis. Int'l L.J. 233-250 (2005).

1976 Lecturer Faculty of Law, Chukyo University

1979 -- 1982 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Chukyo University

1982 -- 1991 Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Osaka University

1991 -- 2000 Professor, Faculty of Law, Osaka University

2000 -- 2001 Professor, Faculty of Law, Nagoya University (Joint appointment as Professor of Law, Osaka University)

2002 -- 2004 Professor, Center for Asian Legal Exchange, Nagoya University

2004 -- to date Professor, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya University

JSPS Fellow (LL.M. program at Yale Law School 1974-75)

ACLS Fellow (research at Yale, 1979-80)

Fulbright Senior Researcher (1984-85)

Visiting Professor, Univ. of British Columbia Faculty of Law (1988)

Visiting Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin Law School (1992)

Visiting Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin Law School (1998)

Overseas Visiting Scholar, St. John's, Cambridge Univ. (1998)

Monbusho Scholar (Univ. of Va. Law School, 1999)