Education
Ph.D. in Economics, Stanford University
Experience
2012 Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University
2011 Professor, Faculty of Economics, Shinshu University
1988 Joined the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI, current METI)
Selected Publications and Papers
"Foreign Ownership, Human Capital, and the Structure of Wages in Japan," The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 2011. (Co-author)
"Gender difference in entrepreneurial success," Applied Economics Letters, 2011. (Co-author)
"Stakeholder-Oriented Corporate Governance and Firm-Specific Human Capital: Wage analysis of employer-employee matched data," RIETI Discussion Paper 10-E-014. (Co-author)
"The Art of Successful Outsourcing," The Japan Journal, February 2010, Vol. 6, No. 10, pp. 15. (Co-author)
"The Controlling Interest," The Japan Journal, August 2009, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 14. (Co-author)
"The Cost of Trust," The Japan Journal, May 2009, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 17.
"Reallocation and productivity growth in Japan: revisiting the lost decade of the 1990s," Journal of Productivity Analysis, March 2009, Vol. 31, No. 2. pp.125-136. (Co-author)
"Why Does Employing More Females Increase Corporate Profits?: Evidence from Japanese Panel Data," Japan Labor Review, Winter 2009, Volume 6, No. 1, pp. 51-71. (Co-author)
"Crucible Steel: What Indian and Japanese steelmakers need is a great big melting pot," The Japan Journal, May 2007, Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 18.
"At the Business End," The Japan Journal, February 2007, Vol. 3, No. 10, pp. 18. (Co-author)
"Japan, 1936-1945: Fascism or Communism?" Society, January/February 2007, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 64-65. (Co-author)
"Sharing the Bread: Why Japanese Securities Dealers are able to Lunch in Style?" The Japan Journal, November 2006, Vol. 3, No. 7, pp. 18. (Co-author)
"Sons and Lovers," The Japan Journal, May 2006, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 20. (Co-author)
"Understanding Overtime," Today's Manager, October-November 2004, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 24-25. (Co-author)
"Why IT Hasn't Changed the World," Look Japan, August 2002, Vol. 48, No. 557, pp. 22. (Co-author)
"Butterflies and Wheels: evolution, diversity, and shelter for the weak," Look Japan, May 2002, Vol. 48, No. 554, pp. 22. (Co-author)
