“Japan.” 2008. European Journal of Political Research. 47: 1028-1038.

“Japan.” 2007. European Journal of Political Research. 46: 1005-1011.

“The Survival of Prime Ministers and the House of Councillors.” 2007. Social Science Japan Journal. 10(1): 81-93.

“Time Constraint and Agenda Control in the Japanese Diet.” with S. Kawato. Prepared for delivery at the 2006 World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Fukuoka, Japan, July 9 - 13, 2006.

“The Diffusion of Power in the Diet” 2005. Hogaku Kenkyu: Journal of Law, Politics and Sociology. 78(11): 64-86.

“No-Confidence Motions as Electoral Signals: A theory with application to the Japanese Diet.”(with J. Lazarus and B. Nyblade) Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D. C., September 1 - 4, 2005.

“Japan: The Prime Minister and the Japanese Diet.” with B. Nyblade. 2004. Journal of Legislative Studies. 10(2/3): 250-262. (reprinted in Executive Leadership and Legislative Assemblies. ed. N. Baldwin. New York: Routledge. 2006. pp. 250-262).

“The Diffusion of Power in the Japanese Diet” Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2 - 5, 2004

“Time Constraint and Agenda Control in the Japanese Diet” (with S. Kawato) Prepared for delivery at the 6th Workshop of Parliamentary Scholars and Parliamentarians, Wroxton College, Oxfordshire, UK, 31 July - 1 August, 2004.

“Institutions and Incentives in the Japanese Diet”(with S. Kawato) Prepared for delivery at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego Town & Country Hotel, March 4-7, 2004.

“An Analysis of the Votes of No-confidence in the Japanese Diet” (with B. Nyblade) Prepared for the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 28 - 31, 2003.

“An Analysis of Group Lobbying in Japan and Korea” Prepared for delivery at the 2003 World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Durban, South Africa, June 29 - July 4, 2003.

“Bandwagon Competition or Duration Dependence? Comment on ‘Shaping Policy Diffusion’” 2002. Japanese Journal of Political Science. 3: 265-269.

“The Diet 2001” 2001. Japanese Journal of Political Science. 2: 247-251.

“Agenda Power in the Japanese Diet: A Duration Analysis of Lawmaking” Doctoral Dissertation. University of Michigan, 2001.

“The Japanese Diet in the 1990s” Prepared for delivery at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Public Choice Society, San Antonio, Texas, March 9-11, 2001.

“Is the Japanese Diet Consensual?” 2000. Journal of Legislative Studies. 6: 9-28.

“Agenda Power in the Japanese House of Representatives.”with G. Cox and M. McCubbins. 2000. Japanese Journal of Political Science. 1:1-21.

“Legislative Agenda Power and Restrictive Procedural Selection in the Japanese Diet” Prepared for delivery at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D. C., August 31-September 3, 2000.

“Legislative Time and Agenda Power in the Japanese Diet.” 2000. Review of Asian and Pacific Studies. 20:65-85.

“Legislative Agenda Power and Administrative Delegation in Japan” Prepared for delivery at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 2-5, 1999.

“How the Majority Exercises Agenda Power in the Japanese Diet” Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 15-17, 1999.

“Legislative Scheduling: A Case of the Japanese Diet” Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, September 3-6, 1998.

“Majority vs. Unanimity: An Examination of Rule Selection in the Japanese Diet” Paper presented to the International Conference of the Japan Public Choice Society at Chiba University of Commerce, August 22-23, 1997.

“The Evolution of Fee-Schedule Politics in Japan.” with John Campbell. 1996. in Containing Health Care Costs in Japan. ed. by Naoki Ikegami & John Campbell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. pp. 265-277.

“The Ministry of Health and Welfare, and an Injection of Political Science.” 1996. Social Science Japan. 7:13-15, 19.

“Institutionally Induced Health Care Policy: Japan and the United States.” 1995. The Toyota Foundation Research Paper (Grant Number 94-A-316).