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Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Chiba University
1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, JAPAN
Office: Room 514, Integrated Research Buildings (1st Block)
Office Hours: Thursdays 12:10 - 13:00 (no office hours from Feb 10 to April 8, 2026).
e-mail: ttachi@chiba-u.jp
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Business Directories of Attapeu and Sekong Province, Laos are Published (August 2007)
Papers: (Last Update: March 8, 2022)
1. Journal Paper
Sato, Takeshi, Towa Tachibana, Takeshi Sakurai, and Santosh Rayamajhi (2022), "Do Remittances Make Poor Households More Resistant to `Natural Disasters'? Evidence from the 2015 Earthquake in Nepal, " International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 73, p. 102858.
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Ibrahim, Latif Apaassongo, Takeshi Sakurai, and Towa Tachibana (2022), "Toward Higher Import Substitution: Does Quality Governance Matter for Uptake and Pricing of Improved Local Rice in Ghana?, " Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, published online on Feb 14, 2022.
Ibrahim, Latif Apaassongo, Takeshi Sakurai, and Towa Tachibana (2020), "Local Rice Market Development in Ghana: Experimental Sales of Standardized Premium Quality Rice to Retailers, " Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics, 22, pp. 118-122.
Tachibana, Towa, Angel Adhikari, Santosh Rayamajhi, and Takeshi Sakurai (2019), "Green Makes a Bold Comeback!:Inventory Results of 101 Natural Forests in the Middle Hills of Nepal over Two Decades, " Journal of Forest and Livelihood, 18(1), pp. 12-25.
Tachibana, Towa, Rie Goto, Takeshi Sakurai, Santosh Rayamajhi, Angel Adhikari, and William H. Dow (2019), "Do Remittances Alleviate Negative Impacts of Disaster on Mental Health? A Case of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake, " Social Science & Medicine, 238, 112460.
Tachibana, Towa (2014), "How one becomes an 'entrepreneur' in a transition economy: the case of manufacturers in Laos," Development Studies Research, 1, pp. 186-201.
Tachibana, Towa and Sunit Adhikari (2009), "Does Community-based Management Improve Natural Resource Condition? Evidence from the Forests in Nepal," Land Economics, 85, pp. 107-131.
Sekine, Toshitaka and Towa Tachibana (2007), "Land as Production Input and Collateral: Land Investment by Japanese Firms," Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 35, pp.497-526.
Tachibana, Towa, Trung. M. Nguyen, and Keijiro Otsuka (2001), "Agricultural Intensification vs. Extensification: A Case Study of Deforestation in the Northern Hill Region of Vietnam," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 41, pp.44-69.
2. Book Chapters
Tachibana, Towa (2016), "Livelihood Strategies of Transmigrant Farmers in Peatland of Central Kalimantan," in Osaki, Mitsuru and Nobuyuki Tsuji, eds., Tropical Peatland Ecosystems, Tokyo: Springer Japan, pp. 613-638.
3. Working Papers, Work in Progress, and Others
4. Recent Presentations
Tachibana, Towa, et al. (2025), "Do Households Having Overseas Migrants Live in Safer Houses? An examination with the post-earthquake census in Nepal," Presented at 2025 World Congress of the Econometric Society, COEX, Seoul, Republic of Korea, August 21, 2025.