Katsuhiro Yamaguchi


Mr. Katsuhiro Yamaguchi is a Professor at the Graduate School of Public Policy (GraSPP), University of Tokyo. He is in charge of the International Transport Policy Research Unit (ITPU) established under GraSPP. At ITPU, one of his major research interests is liberalization of international air transport in North East Asia. He has been actively organizing and participating in international seminars by policy makers and academics of Japan, China and South Korea.

Before coming to the university, Mr. Yamaguchi was Director of the Planning and Research Office, Civil Aviation Bureau, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MLIT), Government of Japan, tasked with aviation policy ranging from airport construction planning and financing to strategic issues in both domestic and international air transport. He joined the Ministry of Transport (reorganized as MLIT in 2001) in 1983 and has had broad and extensive experience in policy areas in air transport, land transport, freight forwarding and information technology. He is currently on leave from MLIT and was assigned to his current position in October 2005.

His educational background includes Faculty of Law, the University of Tokyo and the Graduate School of Business Administration, the University of Michigan. He also has resided in London and New York.

Pertinent research materials are the following:

Yamaguchi, K., "International trade and air cargo: analysis of US export and air transport policy." Transportation Research Part E (forthcoming).

Yamaguchi, K., “Inter-regional air transport accessibility and macro-economic performance in Japan.” Transportation Research Part E 43 (2007), 247-258.

Oum, T.H., Yamaguchi, K., “Asia’s Tangled Skies.” Far Eastern Economic Review Jan/Feb 2006, 30-33.