He is also a Fellow in charge of international affairs at the Japan Foundation Center, which is a WINGS member and an umbrella organization of over 260 Japanese grant-making foundations. He has had experience working for a commercial bank, an INGO, and UNDP, and was in charge of the international grant programs at two Japanese foundations (Toyota Foundation and Nippon Foundation), and helped organize the International Conference on Asian Nonprofit Sectors in Tokyo in January 2016. He recently spent 1.5 months in Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand to conduct research on civil society after receiving fellowship support from the Japan Foundation Asia Center.