Katsuichi Uchida

KATSUICHI UCHIDA is Professor Emeritus of Law at Waseda University. Before retiring from the University in March 2017, he had served as Vice President for International Affairs from 2006 to 2014 and Assistant to the President for Global Affairs to 2017. He holds a B.A. in Law from Waseda University Faculty of Law, and later earned an M.A. and completed postgraduate study in the Graduate School of Law, Waseda University. He became professor of law in 1984, and he was subsequently named to be the founding Dean of Waseda's School of International Liberal Studies in 2004, an interdisciplinary liberal arts and sciences program that has inspired similar undertakings throughout Asia. His research field is Japanese Civil Law, landlord and tenant law in particular, he has published many articles and books on Japanese Civil Law, and became a member of the Science Council of Japan (Nippon Gakujyutu-Kaigi) from 1994 to 1997. He is also an acknowledged expert in international higher education and had served as President of the Asia Pacific Association for International Education until March 2016, and President of the US-Japan Research Institute in Washington DC, a joint undertaking by nine of Japan's leading universities to dispatch policy related research results to the U.S. until March 2017.