Toyama Atsuko

Toyama Atsuko
Viễn sơn đôn tử
Born	December 10, 1938 Kuwana, Mie
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	Bureaucrat

Tōyama Atsuko( viễn sơn đôn tử, born December 10, 1938) is a Japanese former bureaucrat in theMinistry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology.She is a trustee of theTokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games,and the head of the Mt. Fuji World Heritage Center in Shizuoka.

Early life and education

Toyama was born inKuwana, Mie,Japan. She grew up inShizuoka.She graduated fromTokyo University.

Career

After graduation in 1962 Toyama joined the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology. She was one of the first women to become a bureaucrat there, rising quickly to head departments and bureaus.She worked mostly in higher education, and became the director-general of the higher education bureau. After leaving government work, she became the ambassador toTurkeyin June 1996and the director of theNational Museum of Western Artin April 2000.

Toyama was theMinister of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technologyin thefirst Koizumi Cabinetin 2001.She worked there for two and a half years, until 2003.During her tenure Toyama released a plan to reform Japan's national universities by reorganizing internal structures and make thirty of Japan's universities "world-class".There were also changes to how researchers obtain funding, including the newly established "Centers of Excellence", which made academic departments compete for funding. The "Toyama plan" was built on work that she had done during her previous government work.

Toyama was the president of the New National Theater Foundation, theToyotaFoundation, thePanasonicFoundation and the JapanIkebanaArt Association.Toyama also taught at theNational Institution for Academic Degrees and Quality Enhancement of Higher Educationand theInternational Research Center for Japanese Studies.

In April 2013 Toyama was awarded theGrand Cordon of the Rising Sun.

In 2017 she became the head of the Mt. Fuji World Heritage Center in Shizuoka.Toyama is also a trustee of the Tokyo Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Selected bibliography

• Toyama, Atsuko (2013).Koshikata no ki: Hitosuji no michi o ayunde gojunen.Kamakurashunjusha.ISBN9784774005942.OCLC848060489.]
• Tōyama, Atsuko (2004).Kō kawaru gakkō kō kawaru daigaku.Tōkyō: Kōdansha.ISBN4062123215.OCLC55864164.
• Toyama, Atsuko (2001).Toruko seiki no hazama de.Nhật bổn phóng tống xuất bản hiệp hội.ISBN4140806494.OCLC675831637.