Takashi Yanagiya, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Meiji University
Kosaku Dairokuno, President, Meiji University
Takashi Yanagiya (graduated from School of Commerce in 1975) has been inaugurated as the new Chairman, Board of Trustees, and Professor Kosaku Dairokuno (graduated from School of Law in 1977, Vice President(International Affairs)) as the new President of Meiji University on April 1.
The term of office for both Chairman, Board of Trustees, and President is a period of four years from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2024.
Please refer to the following for a profile and brief personal history.
Profile (Chairman, Board of Trustees)
Name: Takashi Yanagiya
Age: 68 (Born in November, 1951)
Brief personal history
1975: Graduated from School of Commerce, Meiji University
1975: Joined Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (Current Nomura Holdings, Inc.)
1997: Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
2000: Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
2002: Senior Managing Director of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
2006: Executive Vice President of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
2008: Executive Vice-Chairman of Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
2016~: Chairman, Board of Trustees, Meiji University
Profile (President )
Name: Kosaku Dairokuno
Age: 66 (Born in January, 1954)
Brief personal history
1977: Graduated from School of Law, Meiji University
1979: Received a Master of Political Science from Graduate School of Political Science and Economics,
Meiji University
1982: Completed all the necessary credits of Graduate School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University
(Withdraw)
1982: Appointed Research Associate of School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University
1995: Appointed Professor of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University
2008~2015: Served as Dean of the School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University
2016~2020: Served as Vice President (International Affairs), Meiji University
Areas of special competence
Comparative politics
Main publications (tentative translations of the titles of works available only in Japanese)
“Hikaku Seijigaku to Demokurasi no Genkai” (Comparative Politics and the Limits of Democracy)
Kaoru Okano and Kosaku Dairokuno (eds.) Tokyo: Toshindo, 2001
“Japan’s pattern of rewards for high public office: a cultural perspective” Christopher Hood and B. Guy Peters with
Grace O. M. Lee (eds.) Reward for High Public Office, London: Routledge 2003.
