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.