CONTACT (Tatsuya YAMAMOTO)
Postal Address
Faculty of Communication, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business, 4-4 Sagamine, Komenoki-chou, Nisshin-shi, Aichi, 470-0193, JAPAN
Telephone
+81-561-73-2111 Ext. 28315
Facsimile
+81-561-73-1202
t.yamamoto[at]nucba.ac.jp
Room in the campus
IS Building 8315 (Third Floor)
Office Hour
Friday, 9:20am - 11:00am
Campus access direction
http://www.nucba.ac.jp/en/about/visitors/
BIO
Tatsuya YAMAMOTO is Associate Professor at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business (Japan). He is also a member of strategic forum for human futures at Engineering Academy of Japan and a member of the board of directors of Mottainai Society (it is considered as Japanese branch of ASPO: Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas).
He was born in 1975. He holds a PhD in media and governance from the Keio University Graduate School of Media and Governance. Assumed his current position after serving as a director and visiting research fellow at the Japan Center for Academic Cooperation of the University of Aleppo in Syria, among other positions.
He received a Sylff scholarship in 2001 during his studies at the Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus. While conducting research abroad at the University of Aleppo in Syria, participated in the Sylff Africa/Europe Regional Forum held in September 2003 at the American University in Cairo. In 2007, attended Building a Better Asia (BABA): Future Leaders’ Dialogue, a retreat for young Asian leaders organized by the Nippon Foundation and held at Peking University, as a Sylff fellow.
He specializes in international relations, information society, and public policy. Lately, he is carrying out his research on "Peak Oil" issues, especially its impact on Globalization. He is also interested in policies related to local community building after the oil depletion era.
He is an author of Information Control in the Arab Countries: The Politics of Internet Control (Keio University Press, 2008), and a coauthor of The High Walls of the Internet: A New Clash of Cultures and Border Disputes (coauthor, NTT Publishing, 2009), How to Look at Politics (coauthor, Yachiyo Shuppan, 2010), and some other books.
He received his BA in policy management, MA in media and governance, and Ph.D in media and governance from Keio University (Japan).