Jun Kurihara is
a Senior Fellow of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. In
addition, he is Research Director of the Canon Institute for Global Studies
(CIGS), a think tank in Tokyo, and Liaison Officer of the Research Institute of
Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), the think tank of Japan’s Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry (METI). He also
teaches as a visiting professor at Kwansei Gakuin University.
Before joining
the Kennedy School as a Senior Fellow in 2003, he was with the Fujitsu Research
Institute and with the Mitsubishi Research Institute as a Senior Economist. He also
taught at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, chaired the Working Group on
Economic Statistics, and served as a Senior Member of the Japan Statistics
Council for the Government of Japan.
He has worked on
a wide variety of research subjects including Japan's industrial rejuvenation
and international relations. He is author and co-author of various publications
including Nihon no Chishiki Senryaku
(Japan’s Knowledge Strategy) (Keio University Press, 2005), “For Whom Japan’s
Last Dance Is Saved—China, the United States, or Chimerica?” (with James
Schoff, CIGS, 2010), and “The Globalization of Northeast China’s MNCs: A Study
of the Electronics Industry,” (in The
Globalization of Chinese Enterprises, edited by Ilan Alon and John R.
McIntyre, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).