Toshi H. Arimura

Toshi H. Arimura, also known as Toshihide Arimura, is a professor in Waseda University’s Faculty of Political Science and Economics in Tokyo. He directs the university’s Research Institute for Environmental Economics and Management and is a faculty fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. His work uses economic analysis to investigate how environmental policies affect businesses, households and emissions.

Research and areas of expertise

Arimura studies climate policy, energy economics, carbon pricing and air pollution regulation. His publications examine emissions trading in Tokyo, industrial energy use, corporate environmental management and the consequences of carbon border measures. These interests connect the design of environmental rules with evidence about their costs and effects.

Academic career and policy work

Before joining Waseda in 2012, he taught at Sophia University, progressing from lecturer to professor. His international research experience includes visiting appointments at George Mason University and Resources for the Future under the Abe Fellowship, as well as at the Paris School of Economics and Sciences Po. He has contributed to Japanese government committees concerned with environmental policy and carbon pricing, and has served on the editorial boards of environmental economics journals.

Books and contribution to this textbook

With Akira Hibiki, Arimura wrote Introduction to Environmental Economics and Policy in Japan, published by Springer in 2024. The publisher credits him with the chapters on market failure, property rights and emissions trading, air pollution, and international climate action and Japanese carbon pricing.

He also coauthored An Evaluation of Japanese Environmental Regulations with Kazuyuki Iwata and coedited Carbon Pricing in Japan with Shigeru Matsumoto. The latter received the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies’ 2021 Commentary Award. His university biography and publication list provide further details about his research and professional activities.