He earned his Ph.D. in education from The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Education in 2014, working on topics in the history of philanthropy and the U.S. higher education, and the evaluation of the effect of tax policies on higher education. He was a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences from 2012 to 2014 and a postdoctoral fellow at National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies from 2014 to 2016, and then assumed the present post. His current research interests include philanthropy and fundraising in higher education, comparative studies of strategic planning of universities.