Brief CV　 (Bio of Makoto NOMURA, June 2020)

1.       Professional Experiences

Makoto NOMURA
(born 1946 in Osaka, Japan)　has virtually left all regular employment
since he reached the age of 70.

His
professional background is mainly in public sector administration, as a
macro-economist and international negotiator.

After getting a
B.A. in economics from the Hitotsubashi University (Tokyo) in 1970, he
started the career as a government Economist in the Economic Planning Agency
(EPA) of the Japanese government. For about 30 years, he served not only to
EPA, but also to Ministry of International Trade and Industry and Institute
of Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Ministry of Finance. He also spent 5 years
in the Department of Economics and Statistics of the OECD (a Paris-based
international organization).

Having retired
from EPA in 1998, he joined several research institutes in addition to
servicing as a regular lecturer in several universities. 

2. Additional comments
relating to translation business

・  Since his first contact with English at the age of 10,
he grew up more and more interested in language and foreign culture in general.

・  His practical ability of English conversation was
brushed up through two long backpacker-tours around Europe in college period as
well as through his services in the OECD (He spoke French to a certain extent,
but the Principal working language was English) 

・  In 1990’s, He had two important opportunities to
discover “the American way of life”, i.e. “two-year long negotiations on Japan
-US Trade frictions” and participation to a “Wharton Advanced Management
Program” (a 60 day camp in University of Pennsylvania)

・  During the period after retirement from the
Government, he was heavily involved in researches related to development-aid of
Asian countries such as Philippines and Mongol.

3.                  
Selected Published
Translations (English to Japanese):

・  “THE NATIONAL DEBT”(by
Lawrence Malkin,  309 pages, 1987)

・  “The American Economy
in Transition”(edited by Martin Feldstein, 696 pages,
1985/Co-translation)

4.    Selected Published Articles (in Japanese):

・  “Lights and shades
around the ‘Revival’ of the US Industries”ESP Monthly,
Sep.1996

・  “Industrial
Competitiveness, Its Implication for Today’s Japan”SLRI
Report , Dec.1999

・  “IT Revolution
Re-examined” SLRI Report, Aug.2001

・  “Farewell to an
Intrinsic Socialist Economic Superpower, Japan”, Chapter 2 of 
“Views on the Heisei Depression”, 2002

5.   His Personal life style

In the years
after virtual retirement, he has acted as an ad hoc Web-writer (in Japanese) on
topics ranging from current Japanese economy to longer-term global issues.

He spends most
of his spare hours for his hobbies; music (both orchestra classics and modern
jazz), Tennis (senior tournament player for more than 30 years) and online
playing of Shogi (Japanese chess). This could be taken as an evidence of the
credibility on his physical toughness and the elasticity of his time
allocation.