SHIMOMURA Hideo

As of April 2024

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.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