gJapan.h 2008. European Journal of Political Research. 47: 1028-1038.

gJapan.h 2007. European Journal of Political Research. 46: 1005-1011.

gThe Survival of Prime Ministers and the House of Councillors.h 2007. Social Science Japan Journal. 10(1): 81-93.

gJudging Political Promotion of Judges: Survival Analysis, Split Population Model and Matching Methodh with K. Fukumoto. Prepared for delivery at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 31-September 3, 2006.

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

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

gNo-Confidence Motions as Electoral Signals: A theory with application to the Japanese Diet.h(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.

gJapan: The Prime Minister and the Japanese Diet.h 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).

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

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

gInstitutions and Incentives in the Japanese Dieth(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.

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

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

gBandwagon Competition or Duration Dependence? Comment on eShaping Policy Diffusionfh 2002. Japanese Journal of Political Science. 3: 265-269.

gThe Diet 2001h 2001. Japanese Journal of Political Science. 2: 247-251.

gAgenda Power in the Japanese Diet: A Duration Analysis of Lawmakingh Doctoral Dissertation. University of Michigan, 2001.

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

gIs the Japanese Diet Consensual?h 2000. Journal of Legislative Studies. 6: 9-28.

gAgenda Power in the Japanese House of Representatives.hwith G. Cox and M. McCubbins. 2000. Japanese Journal of Political Science. 1:1-21.

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

gLegislative Time and Agenda Power in the Japanese Diet.h 2000. Review of Asian and Pacific Studies. 20:65-85.

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

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

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

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

gThe Evolution of Fee-Schedule Politics in Japan.h 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.

gThe Ministry of Health and Welfare, and an Injection of Political Science.h 1996. Social Science Japan. 7:13-15, 19.

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