Yoshiaki MIYAHARA

Yoshiaki Miyahara has been vice president for real estate operations at Tokyo Tech since April 2019.

After earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture from Tokyo Tech in 1969 and 1971 respectively, Miyahara found employment at Urban Industry Co., Ltd.

In the following year, he moved to Research Institute of Architecture, Co., Ltd. (RIA), a major real estate consulting firm in Japan, where he has since spent the better part of five decades.

Miyahara became director at the company in 1993, and senior managing director in 2006. Three years later, he assumed the position of president. In 2015, he moved to the position of executive director. He became chairman of the board of directors in 2017. He moved to the position of corporate advisor in July 2018, and became chief advisor to RIA in July 2021.

He concurrently serves at RIA while conducting his duties at Tokyo Tech.