Research Topics

• Studies on natural resource markets
  • Investigating how individual's willingness to support disaster regions through consumption is related to altruism.
  • A study on how radiation knowledge affects the consumer willingness to buy bottled water from regions near the Fukuhsima nuclear power plant.
  • Analyzing the condition of Japanese electricity cost linkages by fossil fuel sources after the Fukushima disaster.
  • Consumer Perceptions toward Seafood Produced near the Fukushima Nuclear Plant.
  • Consumer reaction toward foods produced near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
  • The U.S. shale gas revolution and its effect on international gas markets.
  • Testing market integration between non-GM and conventional soybean futures markets.
  • Testing regional integration for Japanese regional retail fish markets.
  • Testing price linkages among the U.S. energy source markets.
  • Testing the international linkage in the platinum-group metal futures markets.
  • Testing price linkages among scrap copper and primary copper markets.
  • Analyzing if the gold market is independent from the effects of the 2008 financial shock.

• Studies on environmental problems
  • Investigating the trade-offs of implemeting a CO2 emissions reduction policy.
  • Investigating the Energy-Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis for the Asia-Pacific Region:
  • This study is a good introdcution article for understanding how panel regression and panel cointegration methods for estimating panel data are applied to research.
  • Debates on population increase.
  • A Survey on CDM project for establishment of bilateral credit mechanism and MRV capacity building for China.
  • Study to understand the socio-economic characterisitcs of Indian households.

• Stuides investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Effects of the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic on the Chinese fossil fuel markets.
  • Changes in human mobility under the COVID-19 pandemic and the Tokyo fuel market.
  • Energy prices and COVID-immunity.
  • Effects of COVID-19 on Indian energy consumption.

Jun. 6, 2017 My online version of the book Consumer Reaction, Food Production and the Fukushima Disaster has been published.
Dec. 8, 2012　Newly opened the homepage.