Your Doorway to Japan

Takenaka Harukata

Editorial Planning Committee chair of Nippon.com and professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. Graduated from the University of Tokyo, where he majored in law. Joined the Ministry of Finance. Subsequently received his PhD in political science from Stanford University. Author of Sangiin to wa nani ka (What Is the House of Councillors?) and other works.

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