Consultants / Researchers

Background

March 1988: Graduated from Nihon University College of Science and Technology
April 1988: Joined Nittsu Research Institute and Consulting, Inc. (then)
May 2018: Director
January 2023: Managing Director
April 2024: Professor, Faculty of Distribution and LogistiFaculty of Distribution and Logistics Systems, Ryutsu Keizai University; Senior Advisor, NX Logistics Research Institute and Consulting, Inc.

Mainly engaged in research and studies on changes in the business environment in the trucking business, labor and safety issues, and logistics efficiency measures.
He has also been involved in research on urban logistics issues, social experiments on parking measures for freight vehicles in various regions, comparative surveys of logistics environments with other countries, research and studies related to logistics in Asia, and after the Great East Japan Earthquake, he has been involved in surveys on the actual situation of emergency material transportation and its future state, as well as the formulation of guidelines for the formulation of BCPs for the logistics industry.
In recent years, he has also been in charge of advising and consulting on improving logistics sites in order to reform working styles, such as reducing the working hours of truck drivers.

Expertise

• Logistics situation survey
• Trial/experiment
• Disaster logistics
• Custom survey
• Support for reducing drivers’ working hours
• Urban logistics
• Logistics hub concept

Papers

• Tackling the Driver Shortage! (sole author, Transportation Economics Newspaper Co., Ltd.)
• Reiwa Edition Logistics Guidebook (co-author, edited by NX Research Institute, Inc.)
• Logistics in Asia – Current Situation and Issues (co-author, edited by Keio University Regional Research Center)
• Modern New Urban Logistics (co-author, edited by Taniguchi Eiichi, and written by the Urban Logistics Research Group of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers)
• Urban Logistics Management (co-author, edited by Kuruse Hirohito, Takada Kunimichi, and Takahashi Yoji)

Lecturer・lecture theme

• The 2024 Problem in Logistics
• The state of sustainable logistics and future responses
• What is logistics digital transformation for small and medium-sized logistics businesses?
• Changing circumstances surrounding logistics and the truck driver shortage problem”
• Regarding the formulation of BCPs (Business Continuity Plans) in the logistics business