Is enrolled in the PhD Program at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies' Graduate School of International Studies. Research interests relate to the early- and late modern urban history in Japan, and in order to address the overall picture of it. He participated in the study group focusing on the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 and got involved in translating Phil Cohen's article "Thanks but no thanks: gift and debt in the Olympic compact" included in On the Wrong Side of the Track?: East London and the Post Olympics.