Research theme for competitive and other funds (18):
2024 - 2028 Elucidating the Mechanism of Regional Participation in Global Production Networks Under Local Government Leadership.
2024 - 2026 Knowledge exchange between University of Birmingham and Otemon Gakuin University on devolution and governance structures and their links with economic growth
2024 - 2025 Identifying policy lessons regarding devolution and governance structures and their links with economic growth
2024 - 2025 Consideration of human resource development measures for local government employees in response to diversity - starting from the efforts of local governments to promote understanding in their multicultural policies.
2022 - 2024 人口減少社会における持続可能で強靭な地方の創生
2021 - 2024 International Joint Project toward the Construction and Deployment of "Multicultural Regional Vitalisation Models" based on Skilled Migrants' Entrepreneurship and Investment
2022 - 2023 地方都市におけるワーケーション推進による関係人口と事業創出
2021 - 2023 Regional Industries and Economic Development in the EU and Japan - Will Multiple Crises Foster New Regionalisms?
Naoki Fujiwara. Current Status and Issues of Entrepreneurial Environment Improvement Policies for International Students in Local City. International Public Economy Studies. 2022. 33. 47-56
Naoki Fujiwara. Public-Private Partnerships and Their Limitations in Sustainable Public Sewerage Industry: A Comparative Analysis of Three Municipal Cases in Japan. Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research. 2022. 24. 2. 46-57
Shoei Sono, Naoki Fujiwara. Municipal Policies to Promote Workation -Results of a Questionnaire Survey of Organizations Participating in Workation Alliance Japan-. Journal of Urban Management and Local Government Research. 2022. 37. 2. 17-30
The Transformation of Kumamoto: Labor Migration and the Rise of a New Arrival City in Semiconductor Production
(2025 The American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2025)
Factors Influencing International Entrepreneurs' Location Choices and Challenges in Support Policies
(The Society for Immigration Policy Studies 2024 Winter Conference 2024)
Regulatory Innovations and Special Measures for Strengthening Regional Competitiveness in Osaka
(The 29th Japan-Korea Regional Policy Research Meeting(Korea Research Institute for Local Administration・National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies ) 2024)
Empowering Bureaucracies in Municipal International Policies: Organizational Structures and Governance Transformation of Japanese Municipal Overseas Offices in Southeast Asia
(2024 AAPA-EROPA-AGPA-IAPA Joint Conference, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia 2024)
Local Government Strategy for the Attraction and Retention of Foreign Citizens
(The 41st Annual Conference of the Nippon Urban Management and Local Government Research Association 2024)
2019/09 - Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration Carlos P. Ramos Award for Best Conference Paper
2018/12 - CIRIEC(CIRIEC:Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche et d’Information sur les Entreprises Collectives)-Japan CIRIEC Japan Award Local government industrial policy in the age of globalisation
Association Membership(s) (8):
The Japan Association for Migration Policy Studies
, Research Society for Local Public Administration
, Regional Studies Association
, Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration
, 日本地方自治研究学会
, 日本計画行政学会
, 経済地理学会
, 国際公共経済学会