Ken Kinoshita (Ph. D., Doshisha University, Japan) is an associate professor at the Faculty of Socio-Environmental Studies, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan. His research focuses on the Japanese parliament, local councils, and political communication. He has published several articles and books related to the interface of parliament and political communication, including: Bicameral theory (in Japanese, 2015), Why politicians don’t answer questions? (in Japanese, 2018), How to advance regional legislative reform (in Japanese, 2020), and Rhetoric of politicians (in Japanese, 2022).