Name: Kaoru Tamura
Business Address: Faculty of Commerce, Fukuoka
University
8-19-1, Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180
Japan
TEL:092-871-6631 FAX:092-864-2938
Email: cc037594@jsat.fukuoka-u.ac.jp(until
end of 1999)
tamtam@fukuoka-u.ac.jp
Personal
Nationality: Japanese
Year of Birth: 1954
Marital Status: Married with two children
Education
Hokkaidou University, March 1978
Ph.D, Hiroshima University, March 1997
Work and Teaching Experience
1978-1990: National Research Institute of
Agricultural Economics, the Ministry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Fisheries, Tokyo: researcher
and senior researcher in the food marketing
division
1991-1993: Japan Research Institute(private
think-tank in Tokyo): senior consultant in
the socioeconomic department
From 1993 to March 99: Faculty of Commerce,
Fukuoka University, Associate Professor of
Marketing
From April 1999: Faculty of Commerce, Fukuoka
University, Professor of Marketing
(Undergraduate Teaching: Economics of the
Distribution Industry, Tourism Industry,
Small Business Management)
1998: Faculty of Economics, Kyushu University,
part-time lecturer on Marketing
Affiliations
The Japan Academy of Marketing Science (regular
member)
The Japan Society of Venture Business (regular
member)
The Japan Academy of Food System (regular
member)
The NPO Research Association(regular member)
Recent Publications (in Japanese unless stated)
<1>The Soft Drink Industry in Japan
(1993)
<2>A Guide to the Food Industry, with
K.Shibazaki, 1993
<3>A Guide to the Food Industry, revised
edition, with K. Shibazaki, 1997
<4>Urban Marketing (1997)
<5>The Sustainable and Alternative
Marketing Revolution in Japan (1998)
<6>Central City Retailing - A Case
Study of Fukuoka City (1998)
<7>Site and Space Marketing to Entice
Customers (1999)
<8>"The New Powers of Time-Creating
Industries" Japan Research Review
Vol.2 No.2 1992
<9>" Urban Development and Logistics"
Urban Research Vol.17, 1993
<10>" A Comprehensive Agenda for
the Food Marketing Revolution into the Next
Century" Journal of Food System Research
Vol.1, 1994.
<11>"The Shop-Counter-Oriented
Marketing Revolution" Fukuoka University
Review
of Commercial Sciences Vol.39 No.3-4,
1995.
<12>"A Forecast of The Food Service
Industry and Market in the 21st Century"
Foodservice Research Vol.15 No.1, 1996
<13>"Institutional Factors as
Determinants of Food Retailing" Journal
of Food
System Research Vol.3 No.2, 1996
<14>"Urban Tourism in Europe"
Urban Research Vol.27, 1996
<15> "The Search for a New Relationship
between Cities and the Service Industry -A
Case
Study of the Food Service Industry"
Fukuoka University Review of
Commercial Sciences Vol.40 No.2, 1996
<16> "KFS in the Food Business"
Journal of Trade Vol.23 No.7, 1997
<17>"Local Initiative in the Retail
Marketing Revolution" Japan Marketing
Journal 65,1997
<18>"Diversification of Consumer
behavior and Structural Changes in the Food
Retail Market" Structural Changes in
Japan`s Food Systems (in English),
The Food and Agriculture Research Center,
1997
<19>"Strategies for a Global Logistic
City" Urban Research No.32, 1997
<20> "IT Revolution in the Distribution
System" The Annual Report on the Economy
of
KYUSHU,1998
<21> "Marketing the City: the
Infrastructural Requirements of Port Cities"
Journal of
Municipal Problems Vol.50 No.7, 1998
RECENT CONSULTANCT PROJECTS
・ A Comparative Study of Tourism Policy
in Asia (Asian-Pacific Center in
Fukuoka City)
・Future Plan for Tourism in the Hot Spring
Town of Ureshino
・Stimulating International Trade through
Fukuoka Airport
・ Extensive Plan to Develop the Port of
Hakata (Fukuoka City) a Main Centre of International
Trade in Asia
・The Future Plan Retailing in Fukuoka City
・Master Plan of the Distribution Industry
in Fukuoka City
・An Agenda for the Vegetable and Fruit Wholesale
Market Center
・Management Plan for a Cooperative Logistics
Center