FYI -- http://jimorlin.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/japans-prominent-o-r-ph-d/ Japan’s prominent O.R. Ph.D. By jimorlin As reported in the INFORMS news, the current prime minister of Japan, Yukio Hatoyama, completed his Ph.D. in Operations Research at Stanford in 1976. He worked under the supervision of Gerald Lieberman on markov repair models. His 1977 paper “Markov maintenance models with control of queue”, Journal of Operations Research Society in Japan 20, 164-181 is available online. http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110001183991/ He also co-authored a 1984 book entitled “Stochastic models in reliability theory”. ...