YAMAWAKI Keizo is a professor of Meiji University, Tokyo. He specializes in migrant integration policy. He has advised numerous local governments as well as ministries of the national government in Japan. He is best known as the chair of the Ministry of Internal Affairs’ committee which produced the first governmental report on migrant integration in the country. Since 2010, he has worked with the Council of Europe and the Japan Foundation to promote exchange of ideas and good practices in migrant integration between cities in Japan and Europe. In 2012-2013, he was based in Europe as a visiting fellow of the University of Oxford and that of the Migration Policy Group, Brussels.