Kazuhide Uekusa
| Kazuhide Uekusa | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 植草 一秀 |
| Born |
December 18, 1960 Edogawa, Tokyo |
| Nationality | Japan |
| Field | Monetarism, Japanese economic theory, financial theory, theory of economic policy |
| Alma mater | University of Tokyo |
| Influences | John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman |
| Awards | 23rd Tanzan Ishibashi award (2002) |
Kazuhide Uekusa (植草 一秀? Uekusa Kazuhide, born December 18, 1960) is a Japanese economist, economic analyst, former senior economist at Nomura Research Institute, and chairman of the Three-Nations Research Institute. He was arrested in 2004 and 2006 for sex offences.
In 1979, he entered the University of Tokyo and majored in economics. Uekusa joined Nomura Research Institute in April 1983 after graduating from University of Tokyo in March 1983. He obtained positions as a researcher of Fiscal and Monetary Policy Institute at the Ministry of Finance in July 1985, an assistant professor at the Economic Research Institute at Kyoto University in June 1991, an honorary fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University in October 1993, a senior economist at Nomura Research Institute in April 2002, and became a professor at the graduate school in Waseda University from April 2003, until he was dismissed in April 2004. Afterwards, he established the Three-Nations Research Institute, and became a chairman of the company on April 1, 2005. In April 2006, he made a career comeback in an academic position as a visiting professor at Nagoya University of Commerce & Business graduate school in Nagoya. He lectured on "national economic strategy" until the arrest in September of the year.
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