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Journal Articles

2025

1. A three-layer model of borrowed size: empirical insights from Japan
   Regional Studies, Regional Science, 2025, 12, (1), 975-995
2. An assessment of the borrowed size effect on the regional innovation system in Japan: a stochastic frontier analysis
   The Annals of Regional Science, 2025, 74, (4), 1-23
3. Borrowed size and agglomeration shadows in Japan: a spatial econometric analysis of regional productivity
   Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2025, 9, (4), 1115-1144 View citations (2)

2024

4. Effects of regional network economies on industrial productivity in Japan: dynamic total factor productivity function approach
   Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2024, 8, (4), 1111-1134 View citations (2)
5. Impacts of enhancing regional network economies on regional productivity and productive efficiency in Japan: evaluation from stochastic frontier analysis
   Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2024, 8, (1), 25-43
6. Price Elasticity of Electricity Consumption in Japan, 1990 to 2015
   SAGE Open, 2024, 14, (1), 21582440241228654
7. Regional convergence of total factor productivity in Japanese industries: evidence from the twenty-first century industry data
   Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2024, 8, (1), 165-184

2023

8. Industrial electricity consumption efficiency and energy policy in Japan
   Utilities Policy, 2023, 81, (C) View citations (7)
9. Stochastic demand frontier analysis of residential electricity demands in Japan
   Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2023, 7, (1), 179-195 View citations (3)

2022

10. Assessment of the improvement in energy intensity by the new high-speed railway in Japan
    Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2022, 6, (1), 267-282 View citations (5)
11. Special Feature on Regional Sustainability: analysis in a spatial and regional context with broad perspectives on the risk of global warming, natural disasters, and emerging issues due to the globalized economy
    Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2022, 6, (1), 239-245 View citations (2)

2021

12. A new approach to inter‐regional network externalities in Japan
    Regional Science Policy & Practice, 2021, 13, (3), 1051-1067 View citations (1)

2020

13. How do population agglomeration and interregional networks improve energy efficiency?
    Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 4, (1), 1-25 View citations (3)
14. Inter‐regional networks and productive efficiency in Japan
    Papers in Regional Science, 2020, 99, (1), 115-133 View citations (2)

2019

15. Natural disasters and electricity consumption behavior: a case study of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
    Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2019, 3, (3), 887-910 View citations (8)

2018

16. Dynamics of agglomeration, accessibility, and total factor productivity: evidence from Japanese regions
    Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2018, 27, (7), 611-627 View citations (6)
17. Population Agglomeration and Residential Energy Consumption: Evidence from Japan
    Sustainability, 2018, 10, (2), 1-12 View citations (5)
18. Productivity change and decomposition analysis of Japanese regional economies
    Regional Studies, 2018, 52, (11), 1537-1547 View citations (4)
19. Regional Determinants of Energy Efficiency: Residential Energy Demand in Japan
    Energies, 2018, 11, (6), 1-14 View citations (8)
20. Regional determinants of energy intensity in Japan: the impact of population density
    Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2018, 2, (2), 257-278 View citations (13)

2017

21. Regional determinants of total factor productivity in Japan: stochastic frontier analysis
    The Annals of Regional Science, 2017, 58, (3), 579-596 View citations (16)

2016

22. Total factor productivity and the convergence of disparities in Japanese regions
    The Annals of Regional Science, 2016, 56, (2), 419-432 View citations (13)

2015

23. Agglomeration economies in Japanese industries: the Solow residual approach
    The Annals of Regional Science, 2015, 54, (2), 401-416 View citations (3)
24. Demand for industrial and commercial electricity: evidence from Japan
    Journal of Economic Structures, 2015, 4, (1), 1-11 View citations (15)
25. Estimation and determinants of energy efficiency in Japanese regional economies
    Regional Science Policy & Practice, 2015, 7, (2), 89-101 View citations (14)
26. Regional Policy and the Productive Efficiency of Japanese Industries
    Regional Studies, 2015, 49, (4), 518-531 View citations (4)

2014

27. DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) assessment of operational and environmental efficiencies on Japanese regional industries
    Energy, 2014, 66, (C), 535-549 View citations (63)
28. Energy efficiency and agglomeration economies: the case of Japanese manufacturing industries
    Regional Science Policy & Practice, 2014, 6, (2), 195-212 View citations (31)

2010

29. Industrial agglomeration effects in Japan: Productive efficiency, market access, and public fiscal transfer
    Papers in Regional Science, 2010, 89, (4), 819-840 View citations (30)

2008

30. Determinants of new firm formation in Japan: A comparison of the manufacturing and service sectors
    Economics Bulletin, 2008, 18, (5), 1-7 View citations (12)

2006

31. Agglomeration Economies in New Growth Sectors of Japanese Manufacturing Industry
    Economic Review, 2006, 57, (3), 224-235