born in Nagoya

B.A. Humanities Department, Shizuoka University

M.A. in Philosophy, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University

Ph.D. in Philosophy, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University

Lecturer, Aichi Institute of Technology / Research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Nanzan University / Visiting Fellow, University of Munich

Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Nanzan University

Professor, Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Nanzan University

Head of the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Letters, Nanzan University

Professor of Social Philosophy, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University

President of the Philosophical Association of Japan

Sugiyama Jogakuen University Professor of Philosophy School of Foreign Studies
Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University