• Informality in Asian mega cities,

• Risk response,

• Urban development,

• Global value chain

  Specialties: Regional economics (urban), development economics, Area studies (Southeast Asia)

   

Apr. 1995 - Mar.1999
Faculty of Law, Kyoto University (BA. Law, Mar.1999)

Apr.1999 - Mar. 2001
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University (MA. Economics, Mar.2001)
Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (DC1)

Jun. 2003 - Jun. 2005
Visiting Research Fellow, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Apr. 2001-Mar. 2004
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University (Ph.D. May 2007)
Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PD), Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Apr. 2007 - Mar. 2008
Research Fellow, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Research Fellow, GCOE Program, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University

Apr. 2008 - Sep. 2011
Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Saitama University

Oct 2011-Recent
Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Saitama University

Apr. 2012-Mar. 2013
Visiting Scholar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Tamaki Endo, ‘Living with Risk: Precarity & Bangkok’s Urban Poor’, NUS Press in association with Kyoto University Press, Feb 2014. (328 pages)

Kenta Goto, Tamaki Endo, ‘Upgrading, relocating, or going informal? Local survival strategies in the era of globalization: the case of the Thai garment industry’, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 44. No.1, 2014, pp.1-18. (On line, 29 May 2013. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00472336.2013.794365?src=recsys).

Kenta Goto, Tamaki Endo, ‘Labor-Intensive Industries in Middle-Income Countries: Traps, Challenges and the Importance of the Domestic Market’, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy. Vol. 19, Issue 2, 2014, pp.369-386. (On line, 05 Feb 2014.  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13547860.2014.880283)

Tamaki Endo and Kenta Goto, “Value chain orientation and employment strategies amidst global competition and local labor shortages: The case of the Thai garment industry”, Working Paper No.11, Faculty of Economics, Saitama University, 2015.11.