Education
1984 Ph.D. in Socio-Economic Planning, University of Tsukuba
1979 Master Course of Environmental Science, University of Tsukuba
1977 Department of Environmental Engineering, Kyoto University
Job
1994 Professor of Economics, Okayama University
1988 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Okayama University
Research Field
Application of New Economic Geography
Regional Economics
Publications (English)
@'Measuring Agglomeration' Chapter 16 in "Handbook of Regional Growth and Development Theories" edited by R. Capello and P. Nijkamp, Edward Elgar, 2009
'Changes in Agglomeration Economies and Linkage Externalites for Japanese urban Manufacturing Industries: 1990 1nd 2000' RIETI Discussion Paper, 08-E-040
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@'Agglomeration Effects on Regional Economic Regional Disparities: A Comparison between the UK and Japan,' Urban Studies, 1947-1971, Vol.45, No.9, 2008.
Contributions of Local Agglomeration to Productivity: Stochastic Frontier Estimations from Japanese Manufacturing Firm Data, Papers in Regional Science, Vo.91, No.3, 569-597, 2012.