Books and Monographs:

Introduction to International and Regional Economies, Tokyo: Bunshindo, March 2024.

Internationalization of Japanese Firms: Evidence from Firm-level Data, Springer, March 2014.
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-4-431-54532-3

Internationalization of Contemporary Japanese Firms: Analysis on Panel Data (Japanese), Tokyo:Iwanami-shoten, 2011. http://www.iwanami.co.jp/.PDFS/02/3/0227820.pdf

Global Innovations (with Banri Ito, Japanese), Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2011.
http://www.keio-up.co.jp/np/isbn/9784766418620/

Globalization and Strategy for International Economy (with Masahisa Fujita, Japanese),Tokyo: Nihon-hyoronsha, 2011. http://www.nippyo.co.jp/book/5543.html

International Economics, 3rd edition (Japanese), Tokyo: Iwanami-shoten, 2009.

Modern International Trade: Micro-data Analysis (Japanese), Tokyo: Iwanami-shoten, 2007.
(2008 Japan Academy of International Business Award),
http://www.iwanami.co.jp/.PDFS/02/8/0227680.pdf

International Economics, 2nd edition (Japanese), Tokyo: Iwanami-shoten, 2001.

International Economics, 1st edition (Japanese), Tokyo: Iwanami-shoten, 1995.

International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Organization in Japan (Japanese), Tokyo: Toyokeizai-shinpousha, 1989.

Economic Analysis of Technological Innovation and R&D (Japanese), Tokyo: Toyokeizaishinpousha, 1986.

Refereed Articles and Book Chapters:

“Individual characteristics and the demand for reciprocity in trade liberalization: Evidence from a survey in Japan” (with Eiichi Tomiura, Banri Ito, and Hiroshi Mukunoki), Japan and the World Economy 58, 1-12, June 2021, Elsevier.

“How do exporters respond to exogenous shocks: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data,” (with Ayumu Tanaka and Banri Ito), Japan and the World Economy, 51, September 2019, 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.japwor.2019.100962, Elsevier.

“Individual characteristics, behavioral biases, and attitudes toward foreign workers: Evidence from a survey in Japan,” (with Eiichi Tomiura, Banri Ito, and Hiroshi Mukunoki), Japan and the World Economy, 50, June 2019, 1-13, DOI: 10.1016/j.japwor.2019.03.002, Elsevier.

“Trade Policy Preferences and Cross-Regional Differences: Evidence from Individual-Level Data of Japan,” (with Banri Ito, Hiroshi Mukunoki, and Eiichi Tomiura), Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 51(1), 99-109, 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2018.12.003, Elsevier.

“Innovations and Intellectual Property Rights in Asia: An Introduction,” (with Lakhwinder Singh and Sukhpal Singh), Millennial Asia, 8(1), 1-4, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1177/0976399616686859, Sage Publications.

“Impacts of the WTO Accession on Chinese Exports,” (with Hongyong Zhang), Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 14(4), 347-364, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2016.1178520, Routledge.

“Individual characteristics, behavioral biases, and trade policy preferences: Evidence from a survey in Japan,” (with Tomiura, Eiichi, Banri Ito, and Hiroshi Mukunoki) Review of International Economics, 24(5), 1081-1095, 2016.

“Recovery of the Supply Chain after the 2011 Mega-quake in Japan,” (with Ayumu Tanaka), Millennial Asia, 6(1), 1-20, 2015

“Symposium on Empirical Studies of International Trade and Firms: Introduction,” (with Taiji Furusawa), Japanese Economic Review, 65(2), 137-141, 2014

“Task Content of Trade: A Disaggregated Measurement of Japanese Changes,” (with Eiichi Tomiura and Lianming Zhu), Japanese Economic Review, 65(2), 238-251, 2014

"Offshore outsourcing and non-production workers: Firm-level relationships disaggregated by skills and suppliers,” (with Eiichi Tomiura and Banri Ito), The World Economy, 180-193, 2013.

“Offshoring and Japanese Firms” (with Tomiura, Eiiichi and Ito, Banri), Ashok Bardhan, Dwight Jaffee, and Cynthia Kroll (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment, Oxford University Press, December 2012.

“Productivity Heterogeneity and Internationalization: Evidence from Japanese Firms,” (with Ayumu Tanaka), Millennial Asia, 3 (1), 45-70, 2012.

“Collapse, Consequences, and Prospects of Japanese Trade,” Steven Rosefielde, Masaaki Kuboniwa and Satoshi Mizobata (eds), Two Asias: The Emerging Postcrisis Divide, World Scientific, 327-344, 2012.

“Business Groups, Foreign Direct Investment, and Capital Goods Trade: The Import Behavior of Japanese Affiliates,” (with Rene Belderbos and Jianglei Zou), Journal of Japanese and International Economies, 26(2), 187-200, 2012.

"How Do Chinese Industries Benefit from FDI Spillovers?" (with Banri Ito, Naomitsu Yashiro, Zhaoyuan Xu, and Xiaohong Chen), China Economic Review, 23, 342-356, 2012.

“Offshore Outsourcing and Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Firm-level Data Disaggregated by Tasks,” (with Banri Ito and Eiichi Tomiura), Review of International Economics, 19(3), 555-567, 2011.

“Does Firm Boundary Matter? The Effect of Offshoring on Productivity of Japanese Firms” (with Ito, Banri and Tomiura, Eiiichi), Robert M. Stern (ed.), Quantitative Analysis of Newly Evolving Patterns of International Trade: Fragmentation; Offshoring of Activities; and Vertical IntraIndustry Trade, World Scientific, 101-129, 2012.

“Offshore outsourcing decision and capital intensity: Firm-level relationship,” (with Eiichi Tomiura and Banri Ito), Economic Inquiry, 49(2), 364–378, 2011

“Productivity Premia of Offshoring Firms in East Asia: Evidence from Japanese Firms,” (with Banri, Ito and Eiichi Tomiura), Millennial Asia 1(1), Jan-June 2010.

“Why was Japan’s trade hit so much harder?” in The Great Trade Collapse: Causes, Consequences and Prospects (ed. Richard Baldwin), A VoxEU.org Publication, 209-221, November 2009.

“The Internationalization of Japanese Firms: New Findings Based on Firm-level Data,” RIETI Highlight, Vol. 26, Special Edition, 14-19, RIETI, October, 2009.

“Offshoring by Japanese Firms: A Comparison of Destinations,” (with Banri Ito and Eiichi Tomiura), Harvard Asia Quarterly, 12(1), 14-19, 2009.

“The Effects of Regulation on Japan’s Pharmaceutical Research and Development,” (with Harue Wakasugi), The Japanese Economy, Vol. 35, No. 4, 107-132, 2009.

“The Effects of Stronger Intellectual Property Rights on Technology Transfer: Evidence from Japanese Firm-level Data,” (with Banri Ito), Journal of Technology Transfer, 34(2), 145-158, 2009.

“The crisis is an opportunity to push multilateral trade liberalization” in What world leaders should do halt the spread of protectionism (ed. Richard Baldwin and Simon J. Evenett), 51-53, VoxEU. Org Publication, December 2008.

“Offshoring and Trade in East Asia: A Statistical Analysis,” (with Banri Ito and Eiichi Tomiura), Asian Economic Papers, 7(3), 101-124, 2008.

“FDI, Offshore Sourcing and Firm Heterogeneity: Perspectives of New Empirical Challenges,” The International Economy, 12, 17-27, 2008.

“Intra-firm Technology Transfer and R&D in Foreign Affiliates: Substitute or Complements? Evidence from Japanese Multinational Firms,” (with Rene Belderbos and Banri Ito), Journal of Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 22, No. 3, 310-319, 2008.

“Global Outsourcing and Japanese Trade Policy,” in The Japanese Economy: A Market Quality Perspective, (ed. by M. Yano), Ch.15, 299-316, Keio University Press, Tokyo, 2008.

“What Factors Determine the Mode of Overseas R&D by Multinationals? Empirical Evidence,” (with Banri Ito), Research Policy, Vol. 36, No. 8, 1275-1287, 2007.

”Vertical Intra-industry Trade and Economic Integration in East Asia,” Asian Economic Papers, Vol. 6, No.1, 26-39, 2007.

“How Do Regional Trade Agreements Affect Exports and Foreign Production of Non-member Countries?” (with K Itoh), in New East Asian Regionalism: Causes, Progress and Country Perspective, ed. by C. Harvie, F. Kimura and H. Lee, Edward Elgar, UK. December, 2005.

”The Effects of Chinese Regional Conditions on the Location Choice of Japanese Affiliates,” Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 56, No. 4. 390-407, 2005.

“Symposium on Empirical Issues in the Economic Integration of Japan and East Asia: Introduction” (with Saxonhouse, G. ), Japanese Economic Review, Vol. 56, No. 4. 387-389, 2005.

“How FDI and Technology Import Affected Industrial Growth in East Asian Countries” (with A. Matsuoka), Economia, Vol.53, No.2, pp15-25, 2002.

“Distribution of Imported Products: The Case of Automobiles,” in Distribution in Japan, (ed. by Y. Miwa, K. Nishimura and J. M. Ramseyer), pp.99-113, Oxford University Press, 2002.

“Intra-industry trade,” in Routledge Encyclopedia of International Political Economy, (ed. by R. J. Barry Jones), Routledge, 2001.

“Determinants of Technology Transfer: An Empirical Study of Japanese Firm”, Technology Diffusion in Third World, New World Order Series Vol. 16, 805-832, 2000.

"Technological Importation in Japan," in Innovation in Japan, (ed. by Akira Goto and Hiroyuki Odagiri), pp.20-38, Oxford University Press, 1997.

"Missing Factors of Intra-Industry Trade: Some Empirical Evidence of Japan," Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.353-362, 1997.

"R&D, Firm Size and Innovation Outputs: Are Japanese Firms Efficient in Product Development?" (with F. Koyata), Journal of Product Development Management, Vol. 14 No 5, pp.383-392, 1997.

“Why Foreign Firms’ Entry Has Been Low in Japan: An Empirical Examination,” in Foreign Direct Investment in Japan, (ed. by Masaru Yoshitomi and Edward M. Graham), Edward Elgar, 1996.

"On the Causes of Law Levels of FDI in Japan," in Corporate Links and Foreign Direct Investment in Asia and the Pacific, (ed. by Chen, E. and P. Drysdale), Sydney: Harper Collins, 1995.

"On the Determinants of Recent Japanese FDI," Asian Journal of Economics and Social Studies, Vol. 13, No.4, pp.361-374, 1994.

"Is Japan's Foreign Direct Investment a Substitute for International Trade?" Japan and the World Economy, Vol. 6, pp 45-52, 1994.

“R&D and Innovation in Japan with Comparisons to the United States,” in Troubled Industries in the United States and Japan, (ed. by Hong W. Tan and Haruo Shimada), St. Martin’s Press, 1994.

"Organizational Structure and Behavior in Research and Development," in Business Enterprise in Japan, (ed. by Ken-ichi Imai and Ryutaro Komiya), pp159-177, The MIT Press, 1994.

"Why are Japanese Firms so Innovative in Engineering Technology?" Research Policy, vol. 21, No. 1, pp 1-12, 1992.4

"Japan's Foreign Direct Investment" (with Komiya, R.), Annals of the American Academy of Political Social Science, Vol. 513, pp.48-61, 1991.

"Technological Innovation and Diffusion in Japan and Asian NIES," in Technology Companies and Global Markets (ed. by David V. Gibson), pp61-73, Rowman & Littlefield, 1991.

"Japanese Corporate Adjustment to Yen Appreciation," in The Economics of The Dollar Cycle (ed. by S.Gerlach and P.Petri), pp 299-331, The MIT Press, 1990.

"A Consideration of Innovative Organization: Joint R&D of Japanese Firms," in Evolving Technology and Market Structure: Studies in Schumpeterian Economics (ed. by Arnold Heertje and Mark Perlman), pp 209-226, The University of Michigan Press, 1990.

"Japan's Import Structure and Trade Policy," in Towards Freer Trade between Nations (ed. by Nieuwenhuysen, John), pp 70-84, Oxford University Press, 1989.

"Technological Innovation in the Asia-Pacific Region: Facts and Economic Interpretations," in Global Adjustment and the Future of Asian-Pacific Economy (ed. by Miyohei Shinohara and Fu-chen Lou), pp 328-345, Institute of Developing Economies, 1989.

"Research and Development and Innovations in High Technology Industry: The Case of the Semiconductor Industry," Japanese Economic Studies, Vol.17 No.1, 1988.

"Technology Policy," (with Goto A) in Industrial Policy of Japan (ed. by R.Komiya, M.Okuno and K.Suzumura) pp 183-204, Academic Press, 1988.

"Changes in Growth Rates and Comparative Advantage in the United States and Japan," Rivista di Diritto Valutario e di Economia Internazionale (Review of Currency Law and International Economics), Vol.36 No.3, pp 633-671, 1988.

"Technology Policy in Japan: A Short Review," (with Goto A.) Technovation, Vol.5 No.4, pp 269-279 1987.