Mr.Kusahara graduated from the University of Tokyo with a B.A. in Liberal Arts and holds an MBA from Cornel University's Graduate School of Business and Public Administration. He started his career in government service at the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in 1967, and after working at UNESCO in Paris from 1973 to 1977, returned to the Ministry and served as directors of various divisions, Deputy Director-General of the Higher Education Bureau and Director-General of the Life-Long Learning Bureau.
He left the government in 1997 to assume academic management and teaching responsibilities at Takushoku University, as Vice-President of Takushoku University as well as President of Takushoku University’s Hokkaido Junior College, until his retirement in 2009.
He joined the Japan Karate Association as a board member in 2012 and took the post of Chairman of the JKA in October 2015.
He is a former member of the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, US-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange, Japan-US Educational Commission (Fulbright Japan), Chairman of the English Language Education Council and presently, professor emeritus at Takushoku University. He holds 6th Dan in Aikido and has been a board member of Aikikai Foundation since 2005.
He has written many books and articles on Japanese higher education, as well as a biography of Nitobe Inazo, the author of “Bushido – the Soul of Japan”. He also published a book on Karate, titled “Karate-do as a Budo Culture”(in Japanese).