Abe Fellowship, Japan Program, Social Science Research Council, 2001-2002.

Japan Studies Grant, The Northeast Asia Council, Association for Asian Studies, 1999.

Doctoral Dissertation Grant, Consortium for the Study of Society and Education, University of California at Berkeley, 1995.

Hewlett Research Grant, Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1993-94.

Predissertation Fellowship, Center for German and European Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1994.

MacArthur Interdisciplinary Group on International Security Studies Fellowship, Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1992-93.

Sloan Fellowship, Berkeley Roundtable for the International Economy (BRIE), University of California at Berkeley, 1992-93.

Courses taught at Clark University:

GEOG/ID 016: Introduction to Economic Geography

GEOG/AS/ID 107: Miracles of Asia -- Economic Growth in Global Contexts

GEOG 152: Geography of Globalization

GEOG/ID 256: Global Economic Geographies

GEOG 257/ID 238: Internet Geography

GEOG 362: Seminar on Globalization

GEOG/ID 365: Graduate Seminar in Economic Geography

Selected Publications:

Consumption and Globalization:

Aoyama, Yuko.  Forthcoming.  “Artists, Tourists, and the State: Cultural Tourism and the Flamenco Industry in Andalusia, Spain.”  International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.

Aoyama, Yuko.  “The Role of Consumption and Globalization in a Cultural Industry: The Case of Flamenco.”  Geoforum 38 No.1 (2007): 103-113.

Aoyama, Yuko.  “Oligopoly and the Structural Paradox of Retail TNCs: An Assessment of Carrefour and Wal-Mart in Japan.”  Journal of Economic Geography, 7 (2007): 471-490.

Aoyama, Yuko and Guido Schwarz. “The Myth of Wal-Martization: Retail Globalization and Local Competition in Japan and Germany.”  Chapter in Brunn, S. (ed.)  Wal-Mart World.  New York: Routledge (2006): 275-291.

The Video Game Industry: 

Izushi, Hiro and Yuko Aoyama.   “Industry Evolution and Cross-Sectoral Skill Transfers: A Comparative Analysis of the Video Game Industry in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom.” Environment and Planning A 38 No.10 (2006): 1843-1861.

Aoyama, Yuko and Hiro Izushi, “Creative Foundations of the Japanese Video Game Industry.”  Chapter in D. Power and A. J. Scott (eds.) Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture, London and New York: Routledge, 2004, pp.110-129.

Aoyama, Yuko and Hiro Izushi. "Hardware Gimmick or Cultural Innovation? Technological, Cultural, and Social Foundations of the Japanese Video Game Industry."  Research Policy 32 No.3 (2003): 423-444.

The Logistics Industry and Information Technologies:

Ratick, Samuel, Brian Meecham and Yuko Aoyama.  “Locating Backup Facilities to Enhance Supply Chain Disaster Resilience.”  Growth and Change 39, 4 (December 2008): 642-666.

Aoyama, Yuko and Samuel J. Ratick. “Trust, Transactions and Information Technologies in the U.S. Logistics Industry.”  Economic Geography 83 No.2 (2007): 159-180.

Aoyama, Yuko and Samuel Ratick.  “Competition and Inter-firm Relations in the Age of Instant Access: Case of the U.S. Logistics Industry.”  Chapter in Miller, H. (ed.) Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access.  Springer (2007): 311-327.

Aoyama, Yuko, Samuel J. Ratick and Guido Schwarz.  "Organizational Dynamics of the U.S. Logistics Industry from an Economic Geography Perspective."  Professional Geographer 58 No. 3 (2006): 327-340.

Aoyama, Yuko, Samuel J. Ratick and Guido Schwarz.  “Modeling the Impacts of Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce on the Organization of the Logistics Industry.”  Geographical Analysis 37 No.1 (2005): 46-68.

The Electronics and Software Industries:

Parthasarathy, Balaji and Yuko Aoyama.  "From Software Services to R&D Services: Local Entrepreneurship in the Software Industry in Bangalore, India"  Environment and Planning A 38 No. 7 (2006): 1269-1285.

Aoyama, Yuko.  “Keiretsu, Networks and Locations of Japanese Electronics Industry in Asia.”  Environment and Planning A 32 No. 2 (February 2000): 223-244.

Aoyama, Yuko.  “Locational Dynamics of Japanese Electronics Industry in Europe.”  Chapter in FDI and the Global Economy: Corporate and Institutional Dynamics of Global-Localization, edited by Nicholas Phelps and Jeremy Alden.  Published in Association with the Regional Studies Association, London: Stationery Office. 1999, pp.103-119.

Aoyama, Yuko.  "Integrating Business and Location: An Overview of Two Theoretical Frameworks on Multinational Firms."  Berkeley Planning Journal 11 (1997): 49-70.

Technology Adoption and Information Society:

Aoyama, Yuko and Guido Schwarz.  "From Mail Order to E-Commerce: Competition, Regulation, and Politics of Non-store Retailing in Germany."  Urban Geography 25 No. 6 (2004): 503-527.

Zook, Matthew, Martin Dodge, Yuko Aoyama and Anthony Townsend.  “New Digital Geographies: Information, Communication, and Place.”  Chapter in S. Brunn, S. Cutter and J.W. Harrington (eds.), Geography and Technology.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, pp.155-176.

Aoyama, Yuko.  “Socio-Spatial Dimensions of Technology Adoption: Recent E- and M-Commerce Developments.” Environment and Planning A 35 No.7 (2003): 1201-1221.

Aoyama, Yuko and Eric Sheppard.  “Introduction to the Special Issue, The Dialectics of Geographic and Virtual Spaces.” Co-guest editor for the Special Issue.  Environment and Planning A 35 No.7 (2003): 1151-1156.

Aoyama, Yuko, “E-Commerce and Urban Space in Japan: Accessing the Net via Convenience Stores and Mobile Telephones” Chapter in Cybercities Reader edited by Stephen Graham, London and New York, Routledge, 2003 pp.231-234.

Aoyama, Yuko and Manuel Castells. “An Empirical Assessment of the Information Society: Employment and Occupational Structures of G-7 Countries.” International Labour Review 141 No.1-2 (2002) 123-159. 

Aoyama, Yuko.  “Structural Foundations for Electronic Commerce: A Comparative Organization of Retail Trade in Japan and the United States.” Urban Geography 22 No.2 (2001): 130-153.  

Aoyama, Yuko.  “The Information Society, Japanese Style: Corner Stores as Hubs of E-commerce Access.”  Edited by Stanley D. Brunn and Thomas R. Leinbach (eds.).  Worlds of Electronic Commerce.  Chichester: John Wiley, 2001, pp.109-128. 

Wheeler, James O., Yuko Aoyama and Barney Warf, (eds.), Cities in the Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies.   New York: Routledge, 2000.

Aoyama, Yuko.  “Exclusion and Empowerment for Real and Virtual Communities.”  Guest Editor for the special issue, Cities and the Telecommunications at Millennium’s End in Urban Geography 20 No.4 (1999), 291-293.

Castells, Manuel and Yuko Aoyama.  "Paths Towards the Informational Society: Employment Structure in G-7 Countries. 1920-1990."  International Labour Review 133, No.1 (1994): 5-33. 

Entrepreneurship and Small Business Policy in Japan:

Aoyama, Yuko.  “Entrepreneurship and Regional Culture:  The case of Hamamatsu and Kyoto, Japan.”  Regional Studies 43 (April 2009):

Aoyama, Yuko.  The Role of Small Business Policy in Industrial Network Formation: The Case of Japan.  Chapter in Network Firms in the Global World: Small Firms in New Environments, edited by Eirik Vatne and Michael Taylor.  Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000, pp.45-63.

Aoyama, Yuko. “Policy Interventions for Industrial Network Formation: Contrasting Historical Underpinnings of the Small Business Policy in Japan and the United States.”  Small Business Economics 12 No.3 (May 1999): 217-231.

Aoyama, Yuko and Michael B. Teitz. Small Business Policy in Japan and the United States: A Comparative Analysis on Objectives and Outcomes.  Policy Papers in International Affairs 44 Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 1996.

Aoyama, Yuko.  "Local Economic Development or National Industrial Strategy: Recent Trends in Small Business Policy in Japan and the United States." Review of Urban and Regional Development Studies. 8 No.1 (January 1996): 1-14.