Takeo Hirata

is a Japanese researcher at the Waseda University.

Early life Takeo Hirata was born on 16 January 1960 in Osaka, Japan.

He went to Osaka Prefectural Otemae Senior High School during his younger years. In 1982, he graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration at the Yokohama National University.

Career After graduating from the university, Hirata was employed at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. In 1987, he received a post-graduate Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. From 1991 to 1994 he served as the First Secretary at the Embassy of Japan in Brazil. During that time, he became friends with Cafu, a Brazilian footballer. From 1999 to 2001, he was engaged in oil resource development in the Middle East, as the director for international petroleum affairs at the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy.

In 1989, when the service industry office of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry considered expanding sports business, he met Saburō Kawabuchi during the preparation phase for the soccer's JSL study committee on professionalizing Japan's soccer league. He joined the advisory board and contributed to shaping the J. League's principles. He also took part in the Japanese bidding committee for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. In 2002, the Japan Football Association appointed him to be a General Secretary.

He became a professor of the Graduate School of Sport Sciences at Waseda University.

In addition to his own field Sports Business, he was also responsible for the lectures on energy and environment from his experience as a bureaucrat. Since March 2007, he served as an auditor at Rakuten. In 2009, he served as an auditor at Japan Association of Athletics Federations, and in 2010, he became the director of the Tokyo Marathon Foundation board.

Positions He is an official of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. He was a former General Secretary and currently the Honorary Vice President of the Japan Football Association Professor at the Graduate School of Sports Sciences at the Waseda University Study the Baseball. Shinchosha, 2010. The best textbook for Sports Business, 2012. The Forefront of the Top Sports Business series "Triple Mission, Spread, Market, Victory", 2006. "Strategy for Revenue and Win", 2006. "From the Sports Writing Business to the Broadcasting Rights Business", 2006. "From the Morning Musume's Mission for Spreading Futsal to Retirement Project of Hidetoshi Nakata", 2007. "Work To Make a Dream Come True". Kodansha, 2008. "Road to the Dream Job", 2009.

Other publications Futabasha, Soccer Criticism, September 2003. Asahi Shimbun The Nikkei Evening edition, August 1, 2002 Weekly Post, Shogakukan, September 14, 2007 issue. Significance of Sports Diplomacy, 2006. Delight in South Africa. Stimulation of Demands, June 10, 2010. Let's Discuss About the World Cup, July 13, 2010. Study the J-League series "A Club Should be Able to Gather Guests Even in Enemy Territory", October 5, 2010. "The force of Terrestrial Broadcasting to Expand Fans", October 19, 2010. "Can Urawa Become a True Leader?", October 26, 2010. "The Core of the Club is Training Youth", November 2, 2010. "Not a Simple Effect of the Appreciation of The Yen", November 23, 2010. "A Mechanism for Everybody's Benefit", November 30, 2010.