Professor Atsushi Makino of the Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo, specialises in lifelong learning.He is one of the Executive Directors of the Japan Education Research Association and The Japan Society for studies in Adult and Community Education.Keenly involved in administrative and educational system reform, Makino is engaged at local and national level government in the context of Japan’s social change.He returned to senior posts in Japanese universities after 14 years with the National Institute of Educational Research in China.Apart from the Japanese lifelong learning position in the East Asian Region, he is engaged in educational thought reform in modern China, community education in mainland China and Taiwan, and educational demographics in a diversifying society.
