Professor of Urban & Cultural Economics, Graduate School for Creative Cities, Osaka City University, JAPAN - Director of Urban Research Plaza - President of Japan Association for Cultural Economics, 2008 - Prize of Japan Society of Urban Studies, 2003 - Doctor’s degree in Economics from Kyoto University, 1997 Books 2007 The Prospects to the Creative City, Gakugei Publisher, Kyoto (in Japanese) 2001 Challenge for the Creative City , Iwanami Publisher, Tokyo (translated into Korean) 1997 Economics of the Creative City, Keiso Publisher, Tokyo (in Japanese) Articles 2008 “Developing Creative Cities through Networking” Policy Science Vol.15 No.3 2006 “Search for the Osaka Model of Creative City” Research Journal for Creative Cities Vol.1, No.1 2004 “Creativity and CitiesThe Role of Culture in Urban Regeneration” Quarterly Journal of Economic Studies Vol.27, No.3.