He is also a research director for Australia-Japan Research Centre at the Crawford School and a co-editor of Japanese Economic Review. He worked at Hitotsubashi University and Yokohama National University before joining the Crawford School. He received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego in 2005. His current research has focused on Financial Econometrics and Applied Macroeconomics. He has been awarded the 1st GPIF Finance Awards (2017), 2015 Junko Maru Prize and 2014 Securities Analysts Journal Prize.