March 1983: Graduated from the University of Tokyo, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Liberal Arts, Area Studies Division, Asian Studies.
April 1986: Completed the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Division of Area Studies (Master of Arts and Sciences).
April 1986 (up to date): Institute of Developing Economies.
October 1989 to October 1991: Visiting Fellow at Cultural Studies and Research Institute, Tehran.
October 1999 to October 2001: Visiting Fellow at Payām-e Nūr University, Tehran.
October 2008:　Received the degree of Doctor of Arts and Sciences from the University of Tokyo.
June 2015 to June 2016: Visiting Fellow at SOAS, London University.

"Introduction," Soleyman Soltanian, A Study on Kurdish Movements for the Independence of Kurdistan in the Year of 1946, in Kurdish (Toyo Bunko, March 2013).

"Introduction" & "Post Arab-Spring Political Chamges in the Middle East and Japan's Response: Searching for a New Axis of the System," H. Suzuki (ed.), The Middle East Turmoil and Japanese Response: For a Sustainable Regional Peacekeeping System (IDE-JETRO, March 2013).

"A Critical Review of Opinion Palls relating to Iranian Voting Intentions: Problems of Reserach Methodology as applied to Complex Societies," Discussion Paper No.231 (IDE-JETRO, March 2010).

”The Shaping of Rusta-shahrs and the Emergence of Self-Governance in the Post-Revolutionary Rural Societies of Iran,” Tsugitaka Sato (ed), Development of Parliamentalism in the Modern Islamic World (Toyo Bunko, 2009).

"The Nature of the State in Afghanistan and Its Relations with Neighboring Countries," Discussion Paper No.72 （IDE-JETRO, August 2006）.

"Structural Changes and Formation of Rusta-shahr in Post-Revolutionary Rural Society in Iran," Discussion Paper No.19 (IDE-JETRO, December 2004).

"Book Review: GOTO Akira, State and Rural Society in the Middle East: Villages in the Light of Modern Iranian History," AJAMES, No.19-1, 2003.

"A Note on the Jan.20, 1891 Akhtar Article concerning the Persian Tobacco Concession," AJAMES, No.1, 1986.

Iran and Afghanistan, Area Studies, Fieldwork Studies, Cultural Studies

Chief Senior Researcher, IDE-JETRO