Fellows & Grantees

Isao Okada

Abe Fellowship 2015
Project Title
After the Carnival: How to Prevent Olympic Stadiums from Becoming White Elephants - Learning from Experiences in Asia, America, and Europe
Institutional Affiliation (at time of award)
Senior Staff Writer, Economic News, The Mainichi Newspapers

Bio

Isao Okada is professor at Osaka Seikei University (Japan), where he specializes in sport sociology and business of sports. Until March 2018, he worked for the Mainichi Newspapers as a senior staff writer since 1988. In his 30-year career at Mainichi, he served as a member of the editorial committee of the economic division in the Osaka Headquarters, the sports editorial committee, and the deputy director of the arts and cultural division. His education includes a BA in law from Soka University (Japan) and a MA in international economics and finance from Chulalongkorn University (Thailand). He received a Fulbright Journalist fellowship in the academic year of 2007-2008, spending time at Harvard University. As an Abe Fellow, he also became a visiting scholar at both Harvard University and University of Oxford in 2016-2017. He has published, in Japanese, a book, Meja-rigu Naze Moukaru (Why Is the Major League Baseball So Profitable?) in 2010.

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