Beschreibung
The author was invited as research student to
Japan in October 1990 and received support from the Japanese
government (Monbusho) in order to complete a doctoral degree
at the Department of Geography of the University of Tokyo.
Here he received his degree in March of 1995. As an European
Union research fellow at the University of Manchester, and
from 1997 at the Institute of Social Science at the
University of Tokyo, he has been conducting comparative
analyses on the locational adjustments of Japanese and
European firms.