Hideki Kobayashi Editor

Shinichi Fukushige is a professor at the Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, School of Creative Science and Engineering, Waseda University. After obtaining his doctor’s degree in precision machinery engineering from the University of Tokyo in 2006, he began work at Osaka University as an assistant professor. Since 2014, he served as an associate professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University before moving to Waseda University in 2020. His current research interests include product life cycle design and management, simulation of circular economy, environmentally conscious product and service design, and circular business design.

 Hideki Kobayashi is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. He graduated from Hokkaido University, and earned PhD in Design Engineering from the University of Tokyo. Prior to the current position, he was engaged to Toshiba, as a senior manager of Corporate Research & Development Center in the area of environmental and sustainable technologies. Membership in the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineer (JSME), Japan Society for Precision Engineering (JSPE), etc. Co-director of Italian Design Summer School (IDSS) in Bologna University. His major research interests include sustainable system design and management, sustainable consumption and production (SCP), sustainable manufacturing.

Eiji Yamasue is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the College of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He completed his PhD from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2000. His research interests include industrial ecology, energy and resources, etc. He has authored several books and has published 120 papers with over 1800 citations to his credit.

Keishiro Hara is a professor and the co-director of Center for Future Innovation (CFi), Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University. He is also consulting fellow at Research Institute for Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). He is elected the Fellow of The Engineering Academy of Japan. He was appointed as senior officer for technology policy and strategy at Manufacturing Industries Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), the government of Japan, between October 2016 and March 2018. His primary research interests include Future Design and Sustainability Science. Prof. Hara holds Ph.D. in Environmental Studies and Bachelor of Engineering, both from the University of Tokyo.