Members
Principal Investigator
Tomoko ISHIKAWA
Professor (International Law), Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
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Tomoko ISHIKAWA is Professor at Nagoya University in Japan. She has served as an ICSID Conciliator, appointed by the Chairman of the Administrative Council (2017-2023), a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Energy Charter Treaty, an arbitrator at Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration and a mediator at the Kyoto International Mediation Centre. Her professional experiences include serving as an associate judge at Tokyo District Court and holding the position of Deputy Director at the International Legal Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, where she worked on bilateral/trilateral investment treaties, Free Trade Agreements and WTO dispute settlement. Her research focuses on legal issues that concern international investment and trade, as well as corporate environmental and human rights responsibility. Her most recent publication includes Corporate Environmental Responsibility in Investor-State Dispute Settlement: The Unexhausted Potential of Current Mechanisms (2022).
Research Group 1: Climate Change and International Politics
Group Leader: Wakako ITO
Director and Senior Researcher (International Politics), Japan Forum on International Relations
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Wakako ITO is the Director of Research at the Japan Forum on International Relations (JFIR) and the Senior Program Coordinator at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo. She is also a Special Research Fellow at Institute for Future Engineering (IFENG). She served as a Research Fellow at Shinjuku Institute for Policy Studies and an Adjunct Lecturer at Hosei University, Kanagawa University and Keiai University. She holds an M.A. and a PhD in Political Science from Hosei University. Her research focuses on China’s space policy, science and technology policy, and dual-use technology policy.
Kiichi FUJIWARA
Visiting Professor of Political Science and International Politics, Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo / Project Researcher, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
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Kiichi FUJIWARA is Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo and Specially Appointed Professor of Chiba University, majoring in international politics, comparative politics, and Southeast Asian studies. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, Professor Fujiwara studied as a Fulbright student at Yale University before he returned to Japan at the Institute of Social Science (ISS). He first joined the faculty at Chiba University, and then returned to ISS as an Associate Professor for seven years, and then taught International Politics at the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics until 2022. He also has taught at the Graduate School of Public Policy since its inauguration, and has served as the Director of the Institute for Future Initiatives, where he still works as guest professor. He has held positions at the University of the Philippines, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Bristol, and was selected as a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center at Washington D.C. from 1995 to 1996. He was the president of the Japanese Comparative Politics Association from 2008 to 2010. Prof. Fujiwara has published extensively on international affairs, whose works include Remembering the War (2001, Korean translation 2003); A Democratic Empire (2002, Korean translation 2002); Is There Really a Just War? (2003); Peace for Realists (winner of the Ishibashi Tanzan award, 2005, substantially revised in 2010), Constructing Peace (edited with Ryo Oshiba and Tetsuya Yamada, 2006), International Politics, 2007; War Unleashed, 2007, Conditions of War, 2013, A Destabilizing World, 2020, as well as a chapter in The Age of Hiroshima, edited by G. John Ikenberry and Michael Gordin, 2020. Professor Fujiwara is a regular commentator on international affairs and Japanese foreign policy in NHK, TBS, BBC, and CNN, and writes a monthly column for the Asahi. He is also a film buff, and writes a weekly column on current cinema for the Mainichi. His writings on film are published in America in Film (2006) and That’s a Movie! (2012).
Programme Director (International Relations), Climate Change and Energy, Public Interest Incorporated, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies / Project Researcher, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
Research Topics for the Project: International climate change framework, competition and conflict over climate change, low-carbon hydrogen strategies in different countries
interstate conflict/competition, low-carbon hydrogen strategies
CHENG Fang-Ting
Research Fellow (International Relations), Law and Institutions Research Group, Centre for Frontier Research, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO)
Research Topics for the Project: International regime building and negotiations for climate change, inter-state competition and conflict over climate change, North-South division and developing country participation
Research Group 2: Climate Change and Trade
Group Leader: Keisaku HIGASHIDA
Professor of International Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University
Research Topics for the Project: Trade data analysis and low-carbon hydrogen trade simulation, distribution of benefits, welfare effects of energy trade, low-carbon hydrogen certification systems
Naoto JINJI
Professor of International Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University / Project Researcher, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
Research Topics for the Project: FDI data analysis and low-carbon hydrogen trade simulation, low-carbon hydrogen certification systems
Masabumi SUZUKI
Professor (International Law), School of Law, Waseda University / Project Researcher, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
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Professor Masabumi SUZUKI is a professor of intellectual property (IP) law at the Faculty of
Law, Waseda University. He is also a co-director of the Waseda University Research Center for
the Legal System of Intellectual Property (RCLIP). He received an LL.B. from the University of
Tokyo (1981) and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (1986). He was admitted to the New
York Bar in 1987. Before becoming an academic, he was a government official at the Japanese
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) from 1981 to 2002. He was a professor at
Nagoya University from 2002 to 2023 and Dean of its Graduate School of Law from 2018 to
2020. He is a member of Management Boards of academic associations related to IP law in
Japan, and a member of the Editorial Board of GRUR International. His recent works include
Commentaries on the Japanese Trademark Act (2022) (co-editor), Reactive Instruments of
Social Governance (Mohr Siebeck 2019) (co-editor), and Patent Remedies and Complex
Products: Toward a Global Consensus (Bradford Biddle et al. eds., Cambridge University Press
2019).
Yoshiko NAIKI
Professor (International Law), Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University
Research Topics for the Project: Trade rules and analysis of carbon reduction and low-carbon hydrogen certification schemes
Associate Professor, The School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University, Australia
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Dr. Sharma has given training and taught courses across Asia and Africa. He has researched extensively on the arbitration laws of China and India and other Asian countries, Investment Arbitration, Dispute Settlement in FTAs, WTO related issues, investment law and mediation. He has served as the Legal Advisor to the Macau University of Science and Technology. He has advised transnational companies on trade and investment policy in China and has done training courses with and for the WTO and UNITAR.
Research Group 3: Corporate Climate Responsibility and Civil Society
Group Leader: Tomoko ISHIKAWA
Research Topics for the Project: Investor-state and business-citizen climate change conflicts, Social Licence to Operate (SLO)
Professor (International Law), Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
Tsuyoshi ARAI
Professor (Civil Law), School of Commerce, Waseda University
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Specializing in Civil Law, Security Right, and Real Estate Law, Tsuyoshi ARAI graduated from Waseda University School of Law in 1994 and withdrew after completing credits from the University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics in 2000. After serving as an associate professor at Osaka Gakuin University Faculty of Law and a professor at Dokkyo University Law School, he was appointed to his current position in 2020 (Professor of Civil Law at Waseda University Faculty of Commerce). His major publications include The New Commentary on the Civil Code of Japan Vol. 7, "Property Rights", Yuhikaku, 2018 (in charge of "Extinguishment of Mortgage"), and "Fundamentals and Innovations in Contract Law", University of Tokyo Press, 2024 (in charge of "Future of Personal Guarantees Regarding Real Estate Leases"). Currently, he also serves as a member of the Certified Real Estate Appraisers Examination Committee (Civil Law) and as a part-time lecturer at the National Tax College of Japan.
Miho ISHIMAKI
Full-time Lecturer (Environmental Law), Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
Research Topics for the Project: Environmental law, state-citizen and business-citizen climate change conflicts, Regional Circular and Ecological Sphere
Associate Professor (Resource Economics), Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania
Research Topics for the Project: Benefits and costs of low-carbon hydrogen projects, corporate investment behaviour
British Institute of International and Comparative Law, UK
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Yarik Kryvoi is the Senior Fellow in International Economic Law and Director of the Investment Treaty Forum at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law in London and a co-director of the Arbitration Lab. He is also an Of Counsel at Keidan Harrisson in London.
Research Topics for the Project: Corporate climate responsibility, public international law/investment law on climate change / low-carbon hydrogen projects
Keywords: rule of law, commercial/investor-state dispute resolution, judicial authorities, economic crimes, regulation of foreign direct investments
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Calgary University, Canada
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Elizabeth Whitsitt is a co-recipient and collaborator on a number of research projects on various aspects of international trade and international investment law. Elizabeth is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) and has been appointed to Canada’s USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) Chapter 10 Roster. Professor Whitsitt is also a Canadian Member of the USMCA’s Joint Public Advisory Committee to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
Research Topics for the Project: Corporate climate responsibility, public international law/international trade law on climate change/low-carbon hydrogen projects
Keywords: international trade law, international investment law, environmental cooperation, investor–state dispute settlement, USMCA, plurilateralism
Research Group 4: Climate Change and Corporate Management
Group Leader: Keiko ZAIMA
Professor (Business Administration), Faculty of Business Administration, Kyoto Sangyo University
Research Topics for the Project: Environmental management, ESG assessment, stakeholder theory, social systems theory
Ying SUN
Professor (Business Administration), Graduate School of International Social Sciences, Yokohama National University
Research Topics for the Project: CSV, SCM, industrial ecology
Kanji TANIMOTO
Professor of Business and Society, School of Commerce, Waseda University
Research Topics for the Project: Enterprise and Society theory
Director, Sustainability Business Research Laboratory
Research Topics for the Project: environmental management, environmental reporting and communication, environmental accounting, environmental indicators, CSR, NGO management, sustainability vision and indicators, SDGs
Research Group 5: Climate Change Related Technologies and CC(U)S
Group Leader: Hiroshi MACHIDA
Associate Professor (Chemical Engineering), Research Center for Net Zero Carbon Society, Institute of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University
Research Topics for the Project: Low-carbon hydrogen technology reviews and standardisation studies
Koyo NORINAGA
Professor (Chemical Engineering), Research Center for Net Zero Carbon Society, Institute of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University
Research Topics for the Project: Hydrogen and ammonia project evaluation
Senior Researcher (Chemical Engineering), Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE)
Research Topics for the Project: International standardisation of CCS technology, ISO
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (Chemical Engineering), Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University
Research Topics for the Project: Research on international trends in low-carbon hydrogen and CCS technologies
Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (Chemical Engineering), Organization for Future Society, Nagoya University
Research Topics for the Project: Research on international trends in low-carbon hydrogen and CCS technologies
Keywords: international trends
Professor, Research Institute of Industrial Technology, Aichi Institute of Technology
Research Topics for the Project: Research on Law and Technology related to CCS Projects
Office Members
Alla OLIFIRENKO
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
Midori KOBAYASHI
Administrative Officer, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya University
Project Office
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