Kanjiro Onishi is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2016-17.  Onishi has served as a government officer of the Ministry of Finance, Japan for more than 10 years, and has held various positions, such as a financial attaché of Mission Japan to the EU and a representative of the Washington, D.C. office of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.  Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he supervised several Official Development Assistance projects of the Policy Research Institute of the Ministry, including the policy finance projects in Myanmar and Lao PDR.