Kohei is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tokyo. He received his PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin. He works on ecology and political economy from a Marxist perspective. His latest bestseller, Capital in the Anthropocene, has been credited with inspiring a resurgence of interest in Marxist thought throughout Japan. Due to his desire to continue his research on post-capitalism and the Anthropocene, he felt the need to interact with theories and practices that are rapidly developing in Europe, especially in Germany, as a response to the deepening of the climate and economic crises.

Kohei will join THE NEW INSTITUTE in the academic year 2024/25 as Chair of the program Beyond Capitalism: War Economy and Democratic Planning.

Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism, 2023

‘’Capital’’ in the Anthropocene, 2020

Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy,
New York: Monthly Review Press, 2017