Agglomeration Economies, New Industrial Clusters and Japanese Multinational Firms’ Location in East Asia

Suminori Tokunaga, the president of the Japan Section of Regional Science Association International (JSRSAI) for 2021–2022, is Professor of Regional Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Reitaku University, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan. He is also Professor Emeritus at University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, and formerly Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences at University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is the author or co-author of three books: Landownership and Residential Land Use in Urban Economies (1996, Springer-Verlag Tokyo); Model Analysis of Automobile Environmental Policy (2008, Bunshindo, Tokyo, in Japanese);  and Spatial economic modelling of megathrust earthquake in Japan (2017, co-authored with Budy P. Resosudarmo, Springer Nature Singapore, Singapore).

• Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Overview of Industrial Agglomeration and Location of Japanese FDI.- Chapter 3 Agglomeration Economies of Assembly-type Manufacturing Industry in Japan.- Chapter 4 Agglomeration Effects and Location of Japanese FDI in East Asia.- Chapter 5 Market potential, Supplier Access and Location of Japanese FDI in East Asia.- Chapter 6 Agglomeration Effects and Location of Japanese FDI in China.- Chapter 7 Market Potential, Supplier Access and Location of Japanese FDI in China.- Chapter 8 Agglomeration Economies of Manufacturing Industry in China.- Chapter 9 Conclusion.