Makoto Usami Editor

Yukio Adachi, Professor Emeritus at Kyoto University, is one of the founding fathers of the Public Policy Studies Association, Japan (PPSAJ), which was given birth to in June 1996. He started his academic career as a student of political philosophy, having shifted his research interest into modes of thinking required of policy professionals, via intensive study of the theories and practices of deliberations and debates. His ‘intellectual’ mentors are John Passmore, Stephen Toulmin, and Yehezkel Dror. He has published extensively over a wide range of theoretical and ethics-related issues facing policy professionals, among which are, to mention just a few, how to deal with complexities, uncertainties, and ideological conflicts among key policy actors, how it is possible to make responsibility to future generations and ecosystem a ‘living ethics’ to be substantiated by public policies, and how to improve their capacity for context-specific policy design. 
Makoto Usami is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Kyoto University, Vice-Dean of the Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, and Councilor of the university. His areas of specialty are the philosophy of law and moral and political philosophy. He has published extensively on distributive justice, climate justice, global justice, intergenerational justice, and transitional justice. He is the author of four books and more than seventy journal articles and book chapters written in English or Japanese, while also coauthoring two textbooks and editing seven anthologies as well as one special issue of international journal.