 In local societies, he worked as a director of Hyogo International Center from 2006 to 2007, which is under Hyogo Prefectural Government, and successively held various posts of the center from 2001 to 2007.He was also appointed to the president of "the Pan-Pacific Forum", an NPO in Kobe for international cooperations, established in the 1980s.He studied comparative politics and area studies especially of East Asia.