Menju Toshihiro

Managing director of the Japan Center for International Exchange. Joined JCIE in 1988 after working for the Hyōgo prefectural government for 10 years. Specializes in grassroots international exchange and immigration issues. Has worked as an adjunct lecturer at Keiō University and chaired the Shinjuku Multicultural Community Building Committee. Currently serves as a member of the Cultural Affairs Council of the Agency for Cultural Affairs. Was a participant in the November 2018 roundtable discussion “Immigration Policy for a Shrinking Nation,” which won the 2018 Readers’ Choice Award for the monthly journal Bungei Shunjū. His most recent work, Jinkō bōkoku: Imin de umarekawaru Nippon (Demographic Decline and Japan’s Immigrant-Driven Rebirth), outlines how immigration became a taboo in Japan.

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Sep 21, 2023