{"id":184,"date":"2021-08-26T17:50:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/?post_type=researcher&#038;p=184"},"modified":"2021-09-27T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T03:05:44","slug":"sota-kato","status":"publish","type":"researcher","link":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/researcher\/184","title":{"rendered":"Sota Kato"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Recent Works<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fellow_achievement\">\n<ul>\n<li>S. Kato, T. Nakanishi, B. Ahsan, and H. Shimauchi. 2021. \u201cTime-series topic analysis using singular spectrum transformation for detecting political business cycles.\u201d Journal of Cloud Computing 10-21. Springer.<\/li>\n<li>S. Kato, B. Ahsan, and S. Ibaragi. 2021. \u201cForecasting Japanese elections by applying ensemble learning methods.\u201d TKFD Working Paper Series. 20-05. Originally accepted and presented at the annual meeting (2020), American Political Science Association (APSA).<\/li>\n<li>Kato, Sota 2021. \u201cHow to Correct the Unusual and Critical Relationship between the Bureaucracy and Politics: Analysis and Proposals for an Ideal \u2018Government-Political Relationship\u2019,\u201d Ronza (RONZA) (Web). Asahi Shimbun.<\/li>\n<li>S. Kato and I. Yoshimoto. 2020. \u201cWhy did Abe\u2019s popularity fall during pandemic?\u201d East Asia Forum Quarterly. 21-3. Australian National University.<\/li>\n<li>S. Kato. 2020. \u201cPolitical economic transition and output loss: Evidence from Japanese Political Economy 1990-2005.\u201d TKFD Working Paper Series. 20-04. Originally accepted and presented at the annual meeting (2019), Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA).<\/li>\n<li>Kato, Sota 2020. \u201cWhy did the Abe administration\u2019s approval rating fall: Analysis of data on the support of heads of state for the Corona disaster,\u201d Chuokoron September issue. Chuokoron.<\/li>\n<li>S. Kato, T. Nakanishi, H. Shimauchi, and B. Ahsan. 2019. \u201cTopic variation detection method for detecting political business cycles. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT \u201919).\u201d ACM, New York, NY, USA, 85-93.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Major Awards<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fellow_prize\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Best Paper Award Candidate: IEEE\/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT \u201919). Auckland New Zealand, 2019.<\/li>\n<li>The Best Paper Award: The 24th Annual Meeting, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics\uff08SASE\uff09. Cambridge, USA. 2012.<\/li>\n<li>The First Obutsu Jiro Prize for Encouragement of Debate (2002, Asahi Shimbun)<\/li>\n<li>43rd Nikkei Economic Book Culture Award (2001, Japan Center for Economic Research, Nikkei Inc.<\/li>\n<li>Honors, Harvard Business School (1999)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Educational Background<\/h2>\n<p class=\"fellow_education\">L.L.B., University of Tokyo, 1991<br \/>\nM.B.A., with honors, Harvard Business School, 1999<br \/>\nPh.D. (Political Science), University of Michigan, 2011<\/p>\n<h2>Career<\/h2>\n<p class=\"fellow_career\">1991 Joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)<br \/>\n1997 Deputy Director, International Economic Division (MITI)<br \/>\n2001 Deputy Director, International Economic Division, Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI)<br \/>\n2004 Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)<br \/>\n2005 Professor, International University of Japan<br \/>\n2007 Senior Fellow, The Tokyo Foundation<br \/>\n2008 Senior Fellow, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)<br \/>\n2011 Senior Fellow, Canon Institute for Global Studies<br \/>\n2017 Research Director, The Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research<br \/>\n2020 Visiting Professor, International University of Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":168,"template":"","resercher_tax":[10],"class_list":["post-184","researcher","type-researcher","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resercher_tax-peripatetic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/researcher"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"resercher_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resercher_tax?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}