He received his Bachelor's degree in Business and Commerce from Keio University in 2009 and his master's degree in Economics from Hitotsubashi University in 2011. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Davis in 2016. His research interests are in the area of international economics and regional and urban economics. In particular, he works on the employment effect of international trade, economic costs of sovereign debt restructurings, causes of spatial income inequality, and internal migrations.