SHIMOMURA Hideo

As of April 2026

Title, Research section

Research Director, Career Guidance and Job Analysis

Area/Field of Research

Educational Psychology, Psychology of adolescence, Career Psychology, Career Guidance

Education

Final Education: Graduated in Doctor Course, School of Psychology, University of Tsukuba

Degree: Ph. D. in Psychology, University of Tsukuba

Research Projects

Japan Labor Issues

• Vol.2 No.4 January 2018
  Is Career Counseling Effective? (PDF:467KB)

Japan Labor Review

• Vol.13, No 3 Summer 2016
  Career Counseling at Japanese Companies and Its Intrinsically Japanese Features: Three Functions Seen in the Context of the Japanese Employment System (PDF:344KB)
• Vol.8, No.2 Spring 2011
  The Career Pictures of Workers in Their 50s: Considering Adult Career Development Using the Life-Line Method (PDF:837KB)
• Vol.7, No.1 Winter 2010
  Youth Career Development Support at School and Career Development: For Cooperation between Career Education and Labor Administration (PDF:638KB)

Labor Policy Report No.12

• Verification of the Effects of Vocational Training and Career Counseling using Statistical Methods (PDF:387KB)

JILPT Research Report

• No.233 Survey on the Usefulness and Needs of Career Counseling (2025)
• No.227 The Second Survey of the Activities of Nationally Licensed Career Consultants (2023)
• No.223 Current Situation and Challenges in Introducing Measures for Career Development Support at Enterprises (2023)
• No.200 Survey on Activities, Etc. of Nationally Licensed Career Consultants (2018)
• No.191 Current Status, Effects and Latent Needs of Career Counseling: From Survey Results including Responses from 1,117 Persons with Experience of Counseling (2017)
• No.181 Survey of Participants in the Job Seeker Support System: Study based on a three-point longitudinal survey comprising pre-training, post-training, and follow-up surveys (2015)
• No.171 In-house Career Counseling and its Characteristics in Japan: Results of free description in the questionnaire survey and interview survey (2015)
• No.149 Study on Various Adult Career Guidance Needs and Desirable Guidance Services (PDF:614KB) (2012)
• No.125 Career Education during the School Years and Young Peoples' Occupational Lives (PDF:326KB) (2010)
• No.114 Research on Adult Career Development - Career Development Looked Back on by Workers in their Fifties - (PDF:870KB) (2010)
• No.104 Youth Career Development Support at School and Career Development - For Cooperation between Career Education and Labor Administration - (PDF:346KB) (2008)
• No.92 Parents’ Views of Children’s Futures and Career Education/ Career Guidance (PDF:325KB) (2007)
• No.11 Corporate Participation in Career Development Assistance of Youth: Partnership with Schools, NPOs and the Government (PDF:88KB) (2004)

Academic Societies' Membership

• The Japanese Psychological Association
• The Japanese Association of Educational Psychology
• The Japanese Society for the Study of Career Education
• Japanese Association of Industrial Counseling
• Japanese Association of Industrial / Organizational Psychology
• The Japan Society of Youth and Adolescent Psychology
• National Career Development Association
• International Association for Education and Vocational Guidance