Kazuhide Uekusa

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Uekusa Kazuhide ( Japanese 植草 一 秀 , Uekusa Kazuhide ; born December 18, 1960 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese economist , economic analyst, former professor at Waseda University and chairman of the Three-Nations Research Institute Co., Ltd., which he founded. He is the author of several books on financial policy. In addition to his work as a commentator on Japanese television, he was best known for his involvement in a sexual harassment scandal , which he denied , which marked the end of his career.

Professional background

After graduating from the prestigious University of Tokyo in March 1983, he worked first at the Nomura Research Institute, then as a researcher at the Institute for Tax and Monetary Policy of the Ministry of Finance (from July 1985), as a professor at the University of Kyoto (from June 1991), as a senior economist at the Nomura Institute (from April 2002) and since April 2003 as a professor at Waseda University. He is the founder of the Three Nations Research Institute, which he became Chairman in April 2005. He also worked as a commentator on Japanese television.

Scandals

On April 8, 2004, he was arrested on charges of trying to look under a high school girl's skirt with a hand mirror on an escalator at Shinagawa Station in Tokyo . On May 7, 2004, he was suspended from his professorship. He was also expelled from the prestigious Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University , a conservative think tank of which he was a fellow .

He himself denied the charges and stated at a press conference on August 30, 2004 that he had been brought to a false confession during police interrogations by promising to go home immediately.

The trial opened in the Tokyo District Court on March 23, 2005, and Uekusa was sentenced to pay a fine of 500,000 yen and return the hand mirror. Uekusa continued to deny all allegations and described the process as "unfair". Since he did not appeal, the judgment has become final. He had already been fined 50,000 yen years earlier,

His career recovered in April 2006 when he received a visiting professorship at Nagoya Commercial High School .

A few months later, however, he was accused of having groped a high school student ( Chikan ) on September 13, 2006 on the keikyu main line . In 2007 he was sentenced to 4 months in prison by the Tokyo District Court for this, and he lost his visiting professorship again.

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  1. a b Jun Hongo: Groping economist gets four-month prison term. In: The Japan Times. October 17, 2007, accessed March 8, 2008 .