PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

Wide experience in planning and organizing a variety of events, such as music concerts by Japanese and international artists, including rock, pop, classical, and jazz, and art exhibitions. Planned and produced the opening events of Oasis 21, Nagoya City’s urban park, and Tokugawa-en, a traditional Japanese-style pond garden. Planned and produced the themed theater “Open Your Mind” (General Director: Mamoru Oshii) in the “Mountain of Dreams” pavilion at Expo 2005 Aichi, Japan, and served as the theater manager. In sports, planned and produced the Nagoya Women’s Marathon and the Gifu Half Marathon. Actively involved in community development projects throughout the country.

TITLE

• Executive Producer and Director of Operations Management, GHIBLI PARK Co., Ltd.
• Director, Boogie Woogie Entertainment Co., Ltd.
• Board Member, Marketing Commission Chairperson, Continental PR Manager for Asia, and Women’s Commission Member, Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS)
• Senior Executive Director and Chief Branding Officer, Nagoya Women’s Marathon
  ＊Listed in the Guinness World Records as the world’s largest women’s marathon for the first time (2012).
  ＊World Athletics Platinum Label road race.
  ＊Awarded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Women and Sport Achievement Diploma.
  ＊Awarded the Japan Olympic Committee (JOC) Women and Sport Award.
• Senior Executive Advisor, Gifu Half Marathon
  ＊World Athletics Gold Label road race.
• Projects Advisor, Chunichi Shimbun Co., Ltd.
• Advisor, Ishigaki Island Marathon

EDUCATION

2010: Completed Ph.D. program in Environmental Studies without dissertation, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

2004: Master of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

1995: Bachelor of Arts in Literature, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

Member of Japan Sociological Society, Kansai Sociological Association, Tokai Sociological Society (2014-2017, 2008-2009: Board Member, 2016-2017: Organization Management Committee Chairperson), Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, Japan Society of Sport Sociology, and Japan Association for Cultural Economics.

Book Bibliography: Toyota City and TOYOTA Motor: The Present Situation of Advanced Region of Industrial Globalization

Academic Articles: Information Technology and Conversion in Meaning of Spaces (Society of Socio-Informatics), Spatial Theory Approach to the Tourist Gaze (Japan Foundation for International Tourism), Consideration on Corporate Support of the Arts and Culture (Tokai Sociological Society), and Consideration on Human Resource Recruitment and Development of Global Enterprises (Kansai Sociological Association)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Lecturer of “Fundamentals of Concert Management “at Nagoya University of Arts (2005-2008), “Mass Communication Theory” and “Event Production Theory” at Chukyo University, School of Contemporary Sociology since 2007, and “Community Formation Theory” and “Special Lecture on Problem Recognition” at Nagoya City University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (2015-2018). In addition, served as a lecturer of “Sales Promotion Course” at Sendenkaigi (2009), Vice President of “i Fes,” a social contribution event to promote the connection between citizens and NPOs (2015-2018), and a guest speaker at the “Association to Support Citizens’ Marathon,” Athletic Sports Division, Sports and Youth Bureau, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (2015-2018).