Fieldwork & Public Engagement
Fieldwork, leadership, dialogue, and public-facing engagement across policy, research, and international exchange
Leadership, fieldwork, institution-building, and interdisciplinary engagement across research, policy, cultural, and artistic domains.
Fukushima Field Research
2019–2024Multi-site fieldwork in Futaba and Namie districts examining post-disaster governance, trust, and the policy-recovery gap. Includes interviews with evacuees, mayors, town leaders, METI, and TEPCO officials.
Active Research
AFRECOS
2024Co-Founder & President
Co-founded a 10+ country network for cultural and policy events bridging Africa and Japan. Organised events with around 70–80 attendees and a House of Councillors policy talk with approximately 50 stakeholders.
Peacebuilding Laboratory
President
Research community and discussion platform within Sophia University's Professor Daisaku Higashi Peacebuilding and International Cooperation Laboratory.
Art Practice
Interdisciplinary art practice spanning visual thinking, international exhibition, and conceptual work that intersects with broader research on governance, identity, and technology.
Speaking & Policy Engagement
Selected policy engagement, roundtable participation, youth representation, and dialogue contribution across international forums and parliamentary settings.
TICAD Ministerial Meeting
Speaker as a representative of Japanese students at the Tokyo International Conference on African Development.
Spoke about the importance of nuclear disarmament and proposed a study tour for both African and Japanese students to visit Hiroshima and Fukushima to learn firsthand about the impacts of nuclear energy and the ongoing recovery efforts.
Japan–Netherlands Peace Exchange
War reconciliation speech for Dutch WW2 survivors from Indonesia, as a representative of Japanese Youth at Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.
Delivered a speech in Dutch about living in the Netherlands during the 2011 earthquake and how it led to confronting cultural identity and historical tensions between the two countries.
Africa–Japan Youth Drive
Youth-oriented policy and development forum.
Participation in a youth-focused policy forum addressing Africa–Japan co-creation, development cooperation, and future-oriented agenda setting.
Roundtable and Friends of Education
Hosted by GPE and the World Bank at the Japanese House of Councillors.
High-level roundtable on education policy hosted by the Global Partnership for Education and the World Bank.