Prof. Noriko O. Tsuya Distinguished Professor Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

Noriko O. Tsuya is Distinguished Professor at Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. She is also a senior researcher of Keio Global Research Institute, engaging in a project on prolonged longevity and changing life course in Japan. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago with specialization in demography and applied methodology and statistics. Her research focuses on demographics in Japan, focusing fertility and family change.

She currently chairs the Council Committee of National Institute of Population and Social Security Research. She also serves several government committees, including Japan’s Statistics Committee, the Social Security Commission of Japan Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, and the National Land Agency.

She is the first author of publications, including Marriage, Work, and Family Life in Comparative Perspective (University of Hawaii Press, 2004), Prudence and Pressure: Reproduction and Human Agency in Europe and Asia, 1700–1900 (MIT Press, 2010), and Convergence to Very Low Fertility in East Asia: Processes, Causes, and Implications (Springer 2019).