Kōichirō Agata

Kōichirō Agata ( Japanese 縣 公 一郎 , Agata Kōichirō ; * 1956 in Kobe , Japan ) is a Japanese administrative scientist and a full professor of administrative science at Waseda University in Tokyo . President of the Japanese Association for Public Policy Studies (2018-2020), Vice-President of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences (2019-2022).

Education

From 1975 Agata studied political science at Waseda University and graduated there in 1979 with a bachelor's degree. In 1982 he got a master's degree in political science at the same university and then became an assistant there. From 1984 to 1988 he studied as a DAAD scholarship holder, first at the University of Cologne for two semesters and then at the University of Administrative Sciences Speyer . There he was promoted to Dr. rer. publ. PhD.

Profession and distinction

From 1992 to 1997 he was an associate professor at Waseda University. From 1994 to 1996 he was a Humboldtian at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Since 1997 he has been a full professor of administrative science at Waseda University. From 1997 to 2002 he was the vice dean for academic matters at the university. He was Vice Dean from 2003 to 2006 and has served as Dean of the University's Okuma School of Public Management since 2008.

Outside the university, he fulfills various advisory functions in various state ministries in Japan: evaluation of independent administrative bodies in all ministries at the Ministry of the Interior ( Sōmu-shō ), evaluation of independent administrative bodies in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Gaimu-shō ), approval of the establishment of the university at the Ministry of Education ( Mombu-Kagaku-shō ), auditor at the Personnel Chamber ( Jinji-in ), Deputy CIO at JASSO (Japan Student Services Organization), Policy Advisor at MEXT (Ministry of Education), etc. He is a board member of the Japanese Association for Administrative Science, the International Academy of CIO Japan, and a collective member of the Japanese Chamber of Science.

From 1997 to 2005 he was the examiner for the selection of DAAD scholarship holders in Tokyo. In 2006 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with a Cross of Merit on ribbon . In 2008 he was appointed liaison scientist in Japan by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Japanese-German Center Berlin. Agata was awarded a Heisenberg Medal from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 2014 and was appointed Bonn University Ambassador in 2019.

For 2019, Agata was awarded the Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize of the German Research Foundation .

Publications

(only in German or English)

• State funding programs for municipalities - program and implementation analysis of urban renewal in Baden-Württemberg. 1992.
• Kiyoshi Nakamura, Koichiro Agata (ed.): Convergence of Telecommunications and Broadcasting in Japan, United Kingdom and Germany. 2001.
• Freedom of services in the WTO: The liberalization of telecommunications services within the framework of the GATS using the example of Japan. In: Rainer Pitschas (Hrsg.): Trade and development under the sign of the WTO - a development policy dilemma. Berlin 2007, pp. 165-179.
• Deregulation of Telecommunications and Non-regulation of the Internet in Japan ”. In: Calude E. Barfield, Günter Heiduk, Paul JJ Welfens (ed.): Internet, Economic Growth and Globalization. Berlin 2003, pp. 275-288.
• Problems and perspectives of the further development of the Japanese banking regulation. In: Rainer Pitschas (Ed.): Integrated financial service supervision - banking system and banking supervision facing the challenges of the European economic and monetary union. Berlin 2002, pp. 119–142.
• Decentralization and administrative modernization in Japan - using the example of the abolition of mandated tasks with supervision. In: Waseda Political Studies. No. 30, 1998, pp. 48-66.
• On telecommunications policy in Germany and Japan. In: Werner Jann, Klaus König, Christine Landfried, Peter, Wordelmann (eds.): Politics and administration on the way to the transindustrial society. 1998, pp. 565-574.
• Reform of the Administrative Organization in Japan after the War - Consequences of Committee-Oriented Organizational Reforms and Political Leadership. In: Waseda Political Studies. Nor. 29, 1997, pp. 17-46.
• The Reorganization of the NTT Inc. - Domestic and International Consequences for Japan. In: Waseda Political Studies. No. 28, 1996, pp. 33-48.
• Three Contentious Issues in the Liberalization Process of the Japanese Telecommunications Market. In: Michio Muramatsu, Frieder Naschold (ed.): State and Administration in Japan and Germany. Berlin 1996, pp. 223-243.
• Perspectives of the Japanese and German telecommunications policy. In: Heinz Berger (Hrsg.): Competition and infrastructure in post and telecommunications markets. Journal for Public and Public Sector Enterprises , supplement 19, Baden-Baden, 1996, pp. 7–35.

Web links

• Homepage of Koichiro Agata on f.waseda.jp (German, English, Japanese)
• Literature by and about Kōichirō Agata in the catalog of the German National Library