EMPLOYMENT RECORDS:
1. Administrative Clerk, Ministry of Public Administration, The Government of Sri Lanka, 1976-1978
2. Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 1978-1980
3. Project Officer (Regional Development through expansion of export-oriented products), Sri Lanka Export Development Board, Sri Lanka, 1980-1989 (1982-89)
4. Visiting Lecturer, Osaka YMCA International Center, Osaka, Japan, 1985-87
5. Visiting Lecturer, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, Japan, 1987
6. Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Saga National University, Japan, 1989-1990
7. Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Saga National University, Japan, 1990-1995
8. Visiting Research Fellow, School of Economics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, 1995-1996
9. Professor, Faculty of Economics, Saga National University, Japan, 1997
10. Visiting Research Fellow, School of Economics, Centre for Development Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2003-2004
11. Special Adviser to President of Saga University, 2005 – 2007
12. Visiting Lecturer, Kumamoto Gakuin University, Japan, 2007
13. Honorable Visiting Research Fellow, School of Economics, Centre for Development Studies, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 2012-2014
14. Professor, Faculty of Economics, Saga National University, Japan, 1997 to March 2017
15. Professor Emeritus, Saga University, Japan, April 2017
16. Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Economics, Saga University, Japan, 2017-2022
17. Visiting Lecturer, Nagasaki Wesleyan University, Nagasaki, Japan, 2020
18. Short-term Training on Japan Modernization Studies, JICA Chair (JICA Program for Japanese Studies), 2021