| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Does the ‘hikikomori’ syndrome of social withdrawal exist outside Japan? A preliminary international investigation | Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | 2012 | 188 |
| 2 | Chatbot learning partners: Connecting learning experiences, interest and competence | Computers in Human Behavior | 2019 | 169 |
| 3 | Individual‐vs. culture‐level dimensions of individualism and collectivism: Effects on preferred conversational styles | Communication Monographs | 1996 | 162 |
| 4 | Are Japan's hikikomori and depression in young people spreading abroad? | Lancet, The | 2011 | 104 |
| 5 | Infrared diode laser kinetic spectroscopy of the ν3 band of C3 | Journal of Chemical Physics | 1988 | 85 |
| 6 | Murine cardiac progenitor cells require visceral embryonic endoderm and primitive streak for terminal differentiation | | 1997 | 82 |
| 7 | A shape and image merging technique to solve jigsaw puzzles | Pattern Recognition Letters | 2003 | 72 |
| 8 | A comparative study of food habits and body shape perception of university students in Japan and Korea | Nutrition Journal | 2005 | 65 |
| 9 | Age and height distribution of holocene transgressive deposits in eastern North Island, New Zealand | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 1988 | 64 |
| 10 | Effects of Interactions among Social Capital, Income and Learning from Experiences of Natural Disasters: A Case Study from Japan | Regional Studies | 2010 | 64 |
| 11 | Social capital, household income, and preferences for income redistribution | European Journal of Political Economy | 2012 | 59 |
| 12 | The impact of closing schools on working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence using panel data from Japan | Review of Economics of the Household | 2021 | 59 |
| 13 | A Multimethod Multitrait Validity Assessment of Self-Construal in Japan, Korea, and the United States | Human Communication Research | 2005 | 55 |
| 14 | An information criterion for parameters under a simple order restriction | Biometrika | 1999 | 53 |
| 15 | Impact of natural disaster on public sector corruption | Public Choice | 2014 | 49 |
| 16 | Trust and Happiness: Comparative Study Before and After the Great East Japan Earthquake | Social Indicators Research | 2015 | 49 |
| 17 | Antipsychotic Polypharmacy in Inpatients with Schizophrenia in Asia (2001−2009) | Pharmacopsychiatry | 2012 | 47 |
| 18 | Polypharmacy and psychotropic drug loading in patients with schizophrenia in Asian countries: Fourth survey of Research on Asian Prescription Patterns on antipsychotics | Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences | 2018 | 46 |
| 19 | Pharmacotherapy for schizophrenic inpatients in East Asia – Changes and challenges | International Review of Psychiatry | 2008 | 43 |
| 20 | Holocene Paleoseismic History of Upper-Plate Faults in the Southern Hikurangi Subduction Margin, New Zealand, Deduced from Marine Terrace Records | Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America | 2011 | 43 |
| 21 | The Impact of Natural Disasters on Income Inequality: Analysis using Panel Data during the Period 1970 to 2004 | International Economic Journal | 2015 | 42 |
| 22 | Time path in innovation, imitation, and growth: the case of the motorcycle industry in postwar Japan | Journal of Evolutionary Economics | 2005 | 41 |
| 23 | Introducing the concept of modern depression in Japan; an international case vignette survey | Journal of Affective Disorders | 2011 | 40 |
| 24 | School closures and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan | Journal of Population Economics | 2021 | 39 |
| 25 | Clozapine Use in Schizophrenia: Findings of the Research on Asia Psychotropic Prescription (REAP) Studies from 2001 to 2009 | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry | 2011 | 37 |
| 26 | Natural disasters and social capital formation: The impact of the Great Hanshin‐Awaji earthquake | Papers in Regional Science | 2016 | 37 |
| 27 | Conflict resolution styles among COLLECTIVIST cultures: a comparison between Japanese and Koreans | International Journal of Intercultural Relations | 1998 | 35 |
| 28 | Socio-economic determinants of suicide in Japan | Journal of Socio-Economics | 2011 | 32 |
| 29 | Trust in government and its effect on preferences for income redistribution and perceived tax burden | Economics of Governance | 2014 | 30 |
| 30 | Use of electroconvulsive therapy for Asian patients with schizophrenia (2001–2009): Trends and correlates | Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences | 2015 | 30 |
| 31 | Adjunctive benzodiazepine treatment of hospitalized schizophrenia patients in Asia from 2001 to 2008 | International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology | 2011 | 28 |
| 32 | Technology transfer and convergence of performance: an economic study of FIFA football ranking | Applied Economics Letters | 2009 | 27 |
| 33 | Experience of technological and natural disasters and their impact on the perceived risk of nuclear accidents after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan 2011: A cross-country analysis | Journal of Socio-Economics | 2012 | 25 |
| 34 | Performance in Mixed-Sex and Single-Sex Competitions: What We Can Learn from Speedboat Races in Japan | Review of Economics and Statistics | 2018 | 25 |
| 35 | Imagery experts: How do expert abacus operators process imagery? | Applied Cognitive Psychology | 1990 | 21 |
| 36 | Formal and informal deterrents of crime in Japan: Roles of police and social capital revisited | Journal of Socio-Economics | 2009 | 20 |
| 37 | Decomposing the effect of height on income in China: The role of market and political channels | Economics and Human Biology | 2015 | 20 |
| 38 | Impact of formal and informal deterrents on driving behavior | Journal of Socio-Economics | 2008 | 19 |
| 39 | Profiling Family Communication Standards | Communication Research | 2009 | 19 |
| 40 | The role of social trust in reducing long-term truancy and forming human capital in Japan | Economics of Education Review | 2011 | 19 |
| 41 | Modeling crime in Japan | Economic Modelling | 2012 | 19 |
| 42 | Common use of high doses of antipsychotic medications in older Asian patients with schizophrenia (2001–2009) | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry | 2014 | 19 |
| 43 | Dynamics of agglomeration economies and regional industrial structure: The case of the assembly industry of the Greater Tokyo Region, 1960–2000 | Structural Change and Economic Dynamics | 2007 | 18 |
| 44 | Psychosocial responses to disaster: An Asian perspective | Asian Journal of Psychiatry | 2008 | 17 |
| 45 | Dynamics of social trust and human capital in the learning process: The case of the Japan garment cluster in the period 1968–2005 | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization | 2009 | 17 |
| 46 | Adjunctive antidepressant prescriptions for hospitalized patients with schizophrenia in Asia (2001–2009) | Asia-Pacific Psychiatry | 2013 | 17 |
| 47 | Effects of taking conflict personally on conflict management styles across cultures | Personality and Individual Differences | 2015 | 17 |
| 48 | Central Bank Independence and Inflation in Transition Economies: A Comparative Meta-Analysis with Developed and Developing Economies | Eastern European Economics | 2017 | 17 |
| 49 | The effect of bending vibrations on the dipole moment of a linear polyatomic molecule: Analysis of the vibrational changes and transition moments for acetylene and diacetylene | Journal of Molecular Spectroscopy | 1986 | 16 |
| 50 | Prescription pattern of antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenic inpatients in Japan: Research on East Asia Psychotropic Prescription Pattern?Antipsychotics study | Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences | 2006 | 16 |
