Rate My Professor Yoshiyuki Ohtawa

Professor Yoshiyuki Ohtawa is the President and a Professor at Aikoku Gakuen University, where he holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. His academic career includes positions such as Academic Investigator at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture from 1995 to 1997, Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at Nagoya University from 2002 to 2003, and Lecturer in the Graduate School of Public Policy at Kyoto University from 2011 to 2012. Currently, he serves as an Auditor for the Aikoku Gakuen School Corporation since 2022 and as a Director for the K Gakuen School Corporation since 2023. Ohtawa’s research specializations include policy science, cultural and educational policy, public policy, and environmental welfare policy. He has contributed to numerous research projects funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENHI), focusing on academic research systems, research funding mechanisms, international comparisons of scholarly information systems, and research evaluation methods.

Ohtawa has an extensive publication record spanning books, journal articles, and reports. Notable books include the sole-authored “University Management: Theory and Practice” published by Reimei Shobo in 2003, co-authored “Industrializing Knowledge: University-Industry Linkage in Japan and the United States” by MIT Press in 1999, and “New Era University Management Personnel: Thinking about Administrator Training” by Giaazu Kyoiku Shinsha in 2005. His papers cover topics such as re-examination of R&D statistics in Japanese higher education institutions (1995), analysis of research trends in legal studies through grant selections (1996), studies on academic research systems in China (1996), and international comparisons of research funding in the UK and Japan (1997). More recent single-authored works published in the Aikoku Gakuen University Journal of Human Culture Studies include “On the Etymology of ‘Ranchu’” in 2021, “Historical and Zoological Examination of Dorsal Finless Goldfish” in 2023, and “Research on Memory Heritage in Goldfish History” in 2025. As President, he advocates for a liberal arts curriculum that fosters proactive, experiential learning to unlock students’ potential in understanding human cultures and societies.