Nobutaka Fukuda is a professor at Tohoku University, Japan, where he teaches Sociology and Social Statistics. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford in 2000, the University of Chicago in 2012, and the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. After obtaining his BA in Economics and MA in Sociology of Education in Japan, he continued his research into Japanese Family at the University of Oxford. He received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, and writes many articles and books concerning Japanese family. He is one of the leading researchers on low fertility in Japan, and studies the relation between family formation and ideational change caused by socio-economic development. He is currently working on a comparative study of partnership, fertility, and intergenerational relations between Japan and other developed countries.