Lecturer, Faculty of Tourism, Wakayama University. Born in Iwate Prefecture in 1995. Graduated from the Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University. Completed graduate studies at the University of Tokyo and holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences. Previously served as a Distinguished Research Assistant at the University of Tokyo and an Assistant Professor at Wakayama University before assuming his current position. His specialties are tourism studies and environmental studies (particularly national parks, environmental education, and tourism policy and behavior). His research is interdisciplinary (cross-disciplinary), centered on quantitative methods such as surveys, and spans fields including sociology, economics, business administration, and psychology. As an educator, he teaches courses on research methods in tourism studies (surveys, text mining, data analysis, etc.), tourism behavior (tourism marketing, measures against overtourism, etc.), tourism economics, and fieldwork (in Wakayama, Nagano, Okinawa, and other prefectures). He received the Encouragement Award from the Japan Society for Environmental Education in 2019 and the Encouragement Award from the Japan Society of Landscape Architecture in 2025.
