Thank you for visiting my page. My work and research interests revolve around Healthcare Management which I attribute to my upbringing in a small town in the countryside of Gifu, Japan where my family and I experienced several difficulties finding good medical services and a nursing facility for my late grandmother. This led me to […]
Highlights from the 16th ANZTSR Conference
On Thursday, November 21, 2024, I presented my research at the 16th Biennial ANZTSR Conference, held at Western Sydney University. This was my first time attending this conference, which was recommended to me by professors from New Zealand, with whom I am currently on sabbatical. My presentation focused on the results of a quantitative analysis […]
Hosting a Guest from New Zealand
In mid-March 2024, I invited Prof. Carolyn Cordery of Victoria University of Wellington to be a guest speaker at Ritsumeikan University to help create an opportunity for NPO research to grow in Japan. Prof. Carolyn, with whom I had developed a close friendship through international conferences, was encouraged by the new nonprofit research being undertaken […]
The Association between Social Networks and Volunteering
My paper has recently been accepted for publication in VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations (IF 2.6), an international journal in the field of NPO research. I was very fortunate to have received generous help from my professors in many difficult situations that came one after another. Those insightful comments and suggestions have […]
Research on students’ spontaneity creation through career support from the university
I present the results of a study on fostering students’ spontaneity from the perspective of career support. I am happy to be able to publish this paper along with the completion of my 3-year duties as the Deputy Director of the Career Center on campus. The abstract of the paper is as follows: In this […]
Governance and Quality of Care in British National Health Service
This study aims to analyze through a quantitative analysis “Are there any providers associated between governance and the services?” and “What providers are associated between them?” in order to examine the association between governance and quality of care on the whole providers of the UK. Using “Care directory with ratings” during 2016-2020 which is open […]
What market entry strategies can be useful for Japanese Long-Term Care Firms?
I feel really fortunate right now that I will be able to publish my paper as my entry in the field of International Business very soon and am very satisfied at how I got to this situation. I had to visit plenty of cities in China to see what was going on there in terms […]
Super-Aged Society and Senior Business
One of the social activities that I have engaged myself in these past two years is being part of a third-party committee that deals with incidents and complaints mainly from insured patients utilizing Long-term Care service in an Osaka’s municipality. It was so surprising for me to find out that, according to information from the […]
Women directors and firm performance in UK FTSE 350 : Implication for Japanese firms
The United Kingdom,which I often focus my research on in relation to health care, is also well-knownas one of the countries with the highest level of social participation forwomen along with Scandinavian countries and most western European countries. TheUK corporate Governance Code 2012 and social movements such as the establishmentof “The 30% club (https://30percentclub.org/)” recommends […]
Why is there a shortage of medical doctors in the Japanese healthcare market?
Japan is already commonly known as a rapidly aging country. According to life expectancy at birth from OECD health data 2014, Japanese men live up to 80.5 years old while women live up to 86.8 years old on average. Contributions in the national health insurance system of Japan only serve as further proof of this. […]
The State of Quality for Care Services in Japanese Public Nursing Homes
Here in Japan, care services in nursing homes are often availed of by families for their elderly loved ones for the final stages in their lives instead of keeping them home. However, while public nursing homes offer convenience in reducing the burden and pressure of looking after an elderly family member, they have also been […]