About NFI
About NFI
Purpose of establishment
The COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed the way the world works. Telework, online classes, and online medical consultations have all taken off, and even online baseball games have become a reality. These changes are not just temporary. What we need now is not to think about how society will change in the future, but how we will change society in the future.
The government's Basic Policy for Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform 2020 also calls for "focused investment in and utilization of digitalization and the creation of an environment for it." This policy was also initiated as a reflection on the fact that the policies and systems that form the foundation of the current country and society did not function during the COVID-19 crisis. Going forward, we must look ahead and design future policies and systems.
To tackle these issues, we established the Next Generation Infrastructure Policy Institute (NFI). We aim to tackle cutting-edge issues, gather information from overseas, share this information with the business community and government, and use it to develop solutions and policy proposals.
NFI invites not only researchers but also people from a variety of backgrounds, including companies, government agencies, NPOs, and journalists, to participate in its research. The results of the research will be utilized and their feedback will be used to further advance the research.
We are currently planning to launch research working groups to conduct in-depth research on several themes. To this end, we would like to invite companies, organizations, research institutions, and individuals to become NFI members and participate in our research. Together with you, we would like to broaden our knowledge of contemporary issues, participate in the research working groups, and put forward a vision for building a new society and the policies that will lead to it.
June 1, 2020 Representative Director Akira Morita
Greetings from the Representative Director
The year 2021 has begun in an unusual way, with a state of emergency declared at the very beginning of the year. How should we respond to this crisis facing humanity? Society will likely never return to the way it was before.
How can we take on challenges never before encountered and carve out a new, unknown era? This requires insight and flexible thinking that allows us to take a broad, long-term, bird's-eye view of social change.
NFI will begin full-scale activities this year, and hopes to explore the fundamental policies that will be needed in society in the future and take on a variety of challenges.
January 12, 2021 Akira Morita (NFI Representative Director)
Organizational Structure/NFI Officers
Akira Morita
Director/Representative Director
Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo
1976年東京大学法学部卒業、同大学院法学政治学研究科教授、同公共政策大学院院長、国立社会保障・人口問題研究所所長、津田塾大学総合政策学部教授、研究開発法人科学技術振興機構（JST）社会技術研究開発センター（RISTEX）センター長（非常勤）などを歴任。財務省関税・外国為替等審議会会長代理、総務省政策評価審議会会長代理、厚生労働省中央社会保険医療協議会（中医協）元会長。
著書に『会議の政治学・Ⅱ・Ⅲ』慈学社出版2006、14、16、『制度設計の行政学』慈学社出版2007、『新版・現代の行政』第一法規出版、2017他。
Yukiko Ito
Research supervisor
Professor, Faculty of Policy Studies, Tsuda University
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1978. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo in 2001, and completed his doctoral studies in economics at Brown University in the United States in 2006, receiving his PhD in economics. He has held his current position since 2018. Since 2015, he has been involved in social security and innovation policy at the Cabinet Office's Committee for the Promotion of Integrated Economic and Fiscal Reform. He also serves as an advisor on policy verification and planning at the Cabinet Secretariat's EBPM Promotion Committee, and as the chair of the Finance and Social Security Subcommittee at the Japan Productivity Center's Reiwa Provisional Council. In recent years, he has been conducting empirical research in collaboration with industry, academia, and government, focusing particularly on the visualization of local medical services and governance issues.
Sakiko Kanbara
Research supervisor
Kobe City College of Nursing
Professor of Disaster Nursing and International Nursing
Born in 1977. Graduated from Kobe University, received a PhD in Medicine from Okayama University. Specializes in public health, global health, and disaster nursing.
Representative director of EpiNurse General Incorporated Association, director of the Japanese Academy of Disaster Nursing, and affiliated member of the Science Council of Japan. Specially appointed professor at Kochi Prefectural University and visiting professor at Udayana University, Indonesia.
He serves on many expert committees for local governments involved in regional development and disaster prevention, and has received the UNDRR Risk Award 2017 and the ICT Regional Revitalization Award 2020 Excellence Award for his use of ICT in disaster situations.
Edited by Disastser Nursing, Primary Health Care and Communicatuion in Uncertainty (Springer 2022) Society 5.0, Digital Transformation and Disaster (Springer 2022).
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Tsunehisa Shishido
Research supervisor
Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Born in Tokyo in 1974. Graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo in 1997. Served as an assistant at the University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, an associate professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University Faculty of Law, and an associate professor at Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Law before assuming his current position in 2013. His specialties are constitutional law, national law, and information law. He currently serves as a visiting professor at the National Institute of Informatics, a member of the House of Representatives Electoral District Delimitation Council, chairman of the University of Tokyo Newspaper Foundation, and a director at the Japan Institute for Legal Information Systems (JILIS). His major works include "Constitutional Interpretation: Application and Development (2nd Edition)," Nippon Hyoronsha, 2014, and "Digital Democracy is Coming!", Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2020 (co-author).
http://www.shishido.ju-tokyo.ac.jp/
Masahiro Sogabe
Research supervisor
Professor, Kyoto University Graduate School of Law
Born in Yokohama in 1974, Professor (Constitutional Law and Information Law) at Kyoto University Graduate School of Law. Graduated from Seiko Gakuin High School, Kyoto University Faculty of Law, and completed Master's and Doctoral studies at the same Graduate School of Law (dropped out), completed the 54th legal trainee course, and served as a lecturer and associate professor at Kyoto University Graduate School of Law before assuming his current position in 2013. He is also a member of the Broadcasting Ethics and Program Improvement Organization (BPO) Broadcasting Human Rights Commission, a commentator for the Asahi Shimbun, a director of the Japan Institute for Legal Studies (JILIS), and representative of the Association for Legal Studies on Information (ALIS). His published works include Outline of Information Law (2nd Edition) (co-authored, Kobundo), Constitution I: General Theory and Governance, and Constitution II: Human Rights (co-authored, Nippon Hyoronsha).
Twitter: @masahirosogabe
Ichiro Yamamoto
Research supervisor
individual investor, writer
Born in Tokyo in 1973. Graduated from the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Law, Keio University. After working as a visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo's Policy Alternatives Research Institute, he is now Deputy Secretary General and Senior Researcher at the Information Law Institute, where he is also involved in social surveys and statistical analysis. He is involved in IT technology-related consulting, intellectual property rights management, and content planning and production, while also conducting research on aging societies and current affairs. He has written for many publications, including Nikkei Business, Bunshun Online, Minna no Kaigo (Everyone's Care), and Kodomo no Mirai (Children's Future), and has published many books, including "The End of Internet Business (Voice Select)" and "The Collapse of the Information Revolution Bubble (Bunshun Shinsho)."
Masatomo Suzuki
Research Supervisor/Director
新潟大学 大学院現代社会文化研究科・法学部教授
Born in 1962. Received a Master's in Law from Chuo University and a PhD in Informatics from the Institute of Information Security. Has held his current position since 2005. Specializes in information law. Has served as Chairman of the Japan Institute of Law and Information Systems (JILIS) since 2016 and as a visiting senior researcher at the RIKEN AIP since 2017. As a government committee member, he has been involved in the revision of the Personal Information Protection Act, drafting the original JIS Q15001 standard, and establishing the P-Mark system. His publications include "Personal Information in Japan" (co-authored with Yamamoto Ichiro and Takagi Hiromitsu, Shoeisha, 2015), "New Social Infrastructure: The Full Picture of My Number" (co-authored with Morita Akira, Nikkei BP, 2015), and "New Issues in Privacy and Personal Information Protection" (co-authored with Horibe Masao, Shojihomu, 2010). Personal website: https://www.rompal.org/ Twitter: @suzukimasatomo
Naonori Kato
Research Supervisor/Director
Core researcher at KDDI Research, Inc. Born in Tochigi Prefecture in 1986. Engaged in research, study, and consulting on legal systems and technologies, with a focus on information law (privacy, personal information, etc.). Also teaches information law, intellectual property law, and information security as a part-time university lecturer. Graduated from the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Department of Informatics, with a Master's degree in Informatics, with full credits completed. Currently a visiting associate professor at the Open University of Japan, a visiting researcher at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, a part-time lecturer at Kanagawa University, and a senior researcher at Keio University's SFC Research Institute.
Akira Tsurumaki
Research supervisor/auditor
Lawyer. Born in Kushiro, Hokkaido in 1968. Graduated from the Faculty of Law, Hitotsubashi University.
While working on practical information management issues in his legal work, he is also engaged in research into information law as a senior researcher at the Japan Institute of Information Law and Systems (JILIS). He is also a part-time lecturer at the Chuo University Graduate School of Strategic Management and chairman of the Privacy Mark Review Committee of the National Association of Cram Schools, a public interest incorporated association. He is a CAMS (Certified AML Specialist). He writes and gives lectures, including "Commentary on the Personal Information Protection Act" (partially written by Ishii et al.).
