Yuta Aikawa

Yuta Aikawa is a corporate affiliate visiting fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) for 2015-16.  Prior to joining Shorenstein APARC, he served as deputy director for policy making and implementation at the Government of Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI), where he was in charge of security export control, developing retail industry and consumer credit industry, and financial policy for small and medium companies.  Aikawa received his master's degree of science from the Graduate School of Science and Technology at Keio University in 2005.