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Kojima Lab
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The lab studies food, agriculture, and rural policy from the perspectives of public finance and international comparison.
AboutAbout the lab
Using the social sciences to understand policy on food, agriculture, and rural areas
The Kojima Lab studies food, agriculture, and rural areas, and the policies related to them.
Building on economics, the lab also draws on perspectives from politics, public administration, society, and history to clarify policy problems through both theory and empirical analysis.
Its methods are analysis using statistical data and on-site field surveys.
Prof. Kojima also studies public finance and local public finance, as well as comparisons of policy with the EU and Germany.
Key terms
- Food security
- A condition in which everyone has sufficient access to safe, nutritious food
- Local public finance
- The system through which prefectures and municipalities collect and spend tax revenue and money from the national government
- Social capital
- An idea that regards connections and trust between people as a resource that strengthens a community
NewsLab news
A student received the Dean's Award
Prof. Kojima was appointed Project Professor at the Organization for Interdisciplinary Research Projects
Prof. Kojima and colleagues received the Academic Award of the Agricultural Economics Society of Japan
Prof. Kojima received the Tax Museum Award (Sozei Shiryokan Award)
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies food, agriculture, and rural areas, and the policies related to them. In addition to food policy, such as food security and food loss, and rural policy, it also works on related fields such as public finance and laws and regulations.
*Illustrative imageFood Policy
Examples of research themes include household food security, national food security, food loss, the behavior of firms in the food industry, and kodomo shokudo (community cafeterias for children).
*Illustrative imageRural Policy
The lab also covers disparities between regions and redistribution, EU and German rural development policy, agricultural and rural infrastructure development, employment in regional industries, renewable energy, and social capital.
*Illustrative imagePublic Finance, Law, and Other Related Fields
The lab also studies public finance, taxation, local public finance, laws and regulations, politics and public administration, policy history, rural society, and international relations as related fields.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Kojima Lab are faculty and students in the doctoral program, master's program, and undergraduate program.As of 2026
- ProfessorDaizo Kojima
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Report an errorAbout the images
The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Rice terraces in Hatenashi village A” さか
おり / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) - Food Policy: “Vegetables from a food retailer's container” PizzaToast / CC0 (cropped)
- Rural Policy: “Dülmen, Kirchspiel, Welte, Windräder” Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Public Finance, Law, and Other Related Fields: “National Diet Building” Kakidai / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ando Lab): “Village houses and rice planting in Kamimutsuro, Fuji” Pekachu / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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