Kazuhide Uekusa(植草一秀, born December 18, 1960) is a former Japanese professor of graduate school at Waseda University and Japanese economist.

He entered Nomura Research Institute after he graduated from the prestigious University of Tokyo.

He went through a reseachist of Institute of Fiscal and Momentary Policy at the Ministry of Finance, an assistant professor of Economic Research Institute at Kyoto University, a honorary member fellow of Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a chairman of economist at Nomura Research Institute, and he entered a professor of graduate school at Waseda University from April, 2003.

He has appeared at least once on Japanese television program as one of the commentators. That's why he was known in the world.

Today, he is mostly known as a "Mirrorman" for being arrested on April 8, 2004 because he tried to peep under a high school girl's skirt with his hand mirror at JR Shinagawa Station's escalator.

His professor job was dismissed on May 7, 2004 because of being arrested. And he still denies the charges. (He admitted the charges at first.)

He has a criminal record that he has been made to pay fine of 500,000 yen once on his way from JR Tokaido Main Line Yokohama Station to Kawasaki Station at about 9:20 on January 30, 1998 because He pinched a face-to-face woman's foot with his foot in the front and did an eccentric conduct to play with his parts from the top of his pants in a train.

And then,a victim of a woman claimed that "my feeling was bad" to the train's conductor, and he was handed over to Kanagawa prefectural police.

Judgment trial to him was opened at Tokyo district court on March 23, 2005 and the Chief Justice sentenced him to "Paying fine of 500000 yen and confiscating his hand mirror".

The Japanese word "Mirrorman" (ミラーマン),"Tekagamist" (テカガミスト,the pronunciation is tekagamisuto),"Eronomist" (エロノミスト,It's coined word that it matched "Erotic" + "Economist"). All of names are called on magazines (the weekly etc.) and the Internet. In a word, "Tekagamist" means the person who peeps with hand mirror. A name called "Mirrorman" is most popular.

News after being arrested from "The Japan Times Online"

• Economist pays the price for peeking up girl's skirt
• Scholar denies peeping up skirt
• Economist denies looking up skirt
• TV economist held over peek up dress