| Foreigners' Rights in Japan: Beneficiaries to Participants Y Takao Asian Survey 43 (3), 527-552, 2003 | 71 | 2003 |
| The rise of the" third sector" in Japan Y Takao Asian Survey 41 (2), 290-309, 2001 | 49 | 2001 |
| Reinventing Japan: from merchant nation to civic nation Y Takao Springer, 2007 | 48 | 2007 |
| Low-carbon leadership: Harnessing policy studies to analyse local mayors and renewable energy transitions in three Japanese cities Y Takao Energy Research & Social Science 69, 101708, 2020 | 33 | 2020 |
| Is Japan Really Remilitarising? The politics of norm formation and change Y Takao Monash University Press, 2008 | 32 | 2008 |
| National integration and local power in Japan Y Takao Routledge, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
| Participatory democracy in Japan's decentralization drive Y Takao Asian Survey 38 (10), 950-967, 1998 | 28 | 1998 |
| Aging and political participation in Japan: The Dankai generation in a political swing Y Takao Asian Survey 49 (5), 852-872, 2009 | 27 | 2009 |
| Japan's environmental politics and governance: From trading nation to ecoNation Y Takao Routledge, 2016 | 22 | 2016 |
| Making climate change policy work at the local level: capacity-building for decentralized policy making in Japan Y Takao Pacific Affairs 85 (4), 767-788, 2012 | 22 | 2012 |
| Democratic renewal by" digital" local government in Japan Y Takao Pacific Affairs, 237-262, 2004 | 21 | 2004 |
| Japanese women in grassroots politics: Building a gender-equal society from the bottom up Y Takao The Pacific Review 20 (2), 147-172, 2007 | 19 | 2007 |
| Policy learning and diffusion of Tokyo's metropolitan cap-and-trade: making a mandatory reduction of total CO2 emissions work at local scales Y Takao Policy studies 35 (4), 319-338, 2014 | 16 | 2014 |
| The transformation of Japan's environmental policy Y Takao Environmental Politics 21 (5), 772-790, 2012 | 16 | 2012 |
| Welfare state retrenchment–the case of Japan Y Takao Journal of public policy 19 (3), 265-292, 1999 | 16 | 1999 |
| The Politics of LGBT Policy Adoption: Shibuya Ward's SameSex Partnership Certificates in the Japanese Context Y Takao Pacific Affairs 90 (1), 7-27, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Co-Governance by Local Government and Civil Society Groups in Japan: Balancing Equity and Efficiency for Trust in Public Institutions Y Takao Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration 28 (2), 171-199, 2006 | 12 | 2006 |
| Making environmental policy work with civic science: the intermediary role of expert citizens at the Japanese local level Y Takao Local Environment 21 (9), 1100-1117, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
| Local Levels of Participation in Japan's Foreign Aid and Cooperation: Issues Arising from Decentralized International Cooperation Y Takao Asian Survey 54 (3), 540-564, 2014 | 8 | 2014 |
| Democratic representation in Japanese defense spending: Does public sentiment really matter? Y Takao Asian Social Science 7 (3), 3-25, 2011 | 7 | 2011 |
