This program will study urban, rural, and industrial growth viewing the regions of Japan in the context of the global economy, and using this to develop policy recommendations and other outputs. Specifically, it will analyze, both theoretically and empirically, matters such as formation of domestic and international regional systems through market mechanisms, the mechanisms of enterprise clustering, and the relationship between economic growth and urbanization, considering regional policies that would be desirable from the perspectives of national economic growth and maximizing policy effects, and also researching the optimal sizes of regional blocs and communities. Additional study will look at the ideal forms of the supply chains of Japanese firms and the recovery of areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. Furthermore, the ideal management strategies for outstanding small and medium-sized enterprises utilizing regional resources and other advantages will be studied as well.
Program Director
Studies on the Structure of Japanese Economic Space and Japanese Supply Chains Sustaining Growth Under Globalization and Disaster Risks
July 12, 2011 - June 30, 2013
Project Leader
HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki
Theory and Empirics of Urban Growth and Spatial Structure
July 13, 2011 - June 30, 2013
Project Leader
TABUCHI Takatoshi
Formation of Economic Agglomerations and the Emergence of Order in their Spatial Patterns: Theory, evidence, and policy implications
September 13, 2011 - August 31, 2013
Project Leader
MORI Tomoya
Research of a Mechanism for Regional Revitalization
August 29, 2011 - March 31, 2013
Project Leader
NAKANISHI Hodaka
Development Policies for Robust Regional Economies, Learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011
October 25, 2011 - September 30, 2013
Project Leader
OKUMURA Makoto
Sustainable Regional Development: New industrial clusters and division of functions
July 12, 2011 - June 30, 2013
Project Leader
NAKAMURA Ryohei
