【2022 OCT】 A study of the regulation of individual behavior during a pandemic crisis in Japan. Presented online at the Utokyo Center for Contemporary Japanese Studies Seminar Series.
【2021 JUN】 An experimental study of freedom of choice and intention to vaccinate against new coronavirus (English translation). Presented at the Public Policy Studies Association.
【2021 APR】 Stay-at-home request or order? A study of the regulation of individual behavior during a pandemic crisis in Japan. Presented online at the American Society for Public Administration 2021 Annual Conference.
【2021 MAR】 In search of the optimal integration of AI technology into the public sector: Studies of public trust in AI-driven public services. Presented at an online seminar hosted by the Graduate School of Governance, Sungkyunkwan University.
【2021 MAR】 In search of the optimal integration of AI technology into the public sector: Studies of public trust in AI-driven public services. Presented at a webinar organized by the Division of Public Policy (PPOL), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
【2021 FEB】 In search of the optimal integration of AI technology into the public sector: Studies of public trust in AI-driven public services. Invited virtual presentation at the International Seminar on AI and Digital Government, hosted by the Institute for Future Government and the Department of Public Administration at Yonsei University.
【2019 JUL】 Do people trust AI-powered chatbots as much as they do human administrators? An experimental study. Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Conference.
【2019 JUN】 Do people trust AI-powered chatbots as much as they do human administrators? An experimental study. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Public Policy.
【2019 JUN】 An experimental study of the impact of AI on public trust: The case of the long-term care insurance system in Japan. Presented at the International Institute of Administrative Sciences – Lien Conference.
【2018 JUL】 Who would be willing to help somebody else’s municipality? Investigating Japanese public attitudes in the wake of a natural disaster [Invited presentation].
【2018 MAY-JUN】 Prefectural leadership in a spatially polarizing Japan. Presented at the Public Management Research Conference.
【2018 MAY-JUN】 Does performance management work differently across different political cultures? Presented at the Public Management Research Conference.
【2019 FEB】 The aspirations to be a leading government: Does a governor’s profile matter? Presented at the Workshop on Public Sector Innovation in the Asia Pacific.
【2016 NOV】 Political pressure for local innovations in Japan: Are prefectural assemblies doing enough? Presented at the Public Service Innovation Conference.
【2017 SEP】 Who would be willing to accept disaster debris in their backyard? Investigating the determinants of public attitudes in post-Fukushima Japan. Presented at the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration.
【2017 JUN】 Can Kazakhstan follow Singapore? Assessment of its civil service reform capacity. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Public Policy.
【2017 JUN】 Performance appraisals: Their patterns of international prevalence. Presented at the 3rd International Conference on Public Policy.
【2017 MAY】 Political pressure for local leadership in a spatially polarizing Japan. Presented at the Japanese Society for Public Administration.
【2016 APR】 Would you be willing to accept disaster debris in your backyard? Investigating the determinants of public attitudes in post-Fukushima Japan.
【2015 MAY】 A tsunami-ravaged town becomes progressive to survive and revive. Presented at the Symposium on the Rise of Progressive Cities East and West.
【2015 MAR】 The rise of mega-adaptive governance for manpower support for municipalities in the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami. Presented at the Workshop on Decentralized Disaster Governance in Urbanizing Asia.
【2015 FEB】 The rise of progressive municipalities in the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami: Turning crisis into opportunity? Presented at the Dialogic Workshop on Progressive Cities in Asia and Europe.
【2013 OCT】 Do regime types matter to the success of managerialism? The case of public education. Presented at the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration.
【2013 JUN】 Defining public administration in Japan and Singapore: An application of Rosenbloom’s three-perspective model. Presented at the Public Management Research Conference.
【2012 SEP】 New Public Management and organizational resistance to change: The case of Japanese high schools. Presented at the Korean Association for Policy Studies.
【2008 NOV】 A theoretical and empirical treatment of functional decentralization: A cross-country study of organizational setting in public secondary education. Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management.
【2008 OCT】 A theoretical and empirical treatment of functional decentralization: A cross-country study of organizational setting in public secondary education. Presented at the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.