Current Position: Senior Researcher, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Japan
Research interests: migration (international migration, internal migration, adaptation process of immigrant children in Japan, the second generation children), and family studies (intergenerational relationships).
Recent research includes a survey targeted at Brazilian residents in Iwata-city, Shizuoka prefecture to understand their family structure, support relationships, relationships with their neighbors, and children’s schooling. In the area of family studies, I am interested in intergenerational relationship especially the association between support relationship and geographical distance between the younger generation and the older generation.
Penn State's Demography Program: I am very grateful for the dual-degree program at the PSU for the training they provided me in both demography and rural sociology. Although the course works were hard, I realized that the programs offered at the PSU and faculties are very high in quality.
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