PROFILE

Touko Shirakawa is Journalist about declining birthrates, Author, and Visiting Researcher of Graduate School of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, The University of Tokyo. She graduated from Faculty of Letters, Department of Sociology, Keio University in 1984. She received her MBA diplomat in Strategic Management from Chuo University in 2020.

Since 2002 to the present, she has been writing about women’s issue especially to suggest the balanced lifestyle for women’s birthing and work. Her research expertise and interest is women empowerment, SDGs and diversity management.

She is the author of several books: “The Era of KONKATSU (Marriage Hunting Era)”, co-authored with Masahiro Yamaguchi, Professor of Sociology at Chuo University, which has sold 200,000 copies in 2008. “This is where the realization of work style reform of your company goes wrong !”(2017) ,”A Boundary of Harassment”(2019). She wrote more than 25 books.

She served as a member of Cabinet Office Gender Equality Bureau’s "Expert Panel on Priority Policies" in 2016-2020, also served as a member of Cabinet Secretariat’s "The Council for the Realization of Work Style Reform" in 2016-2020.