[1] In 1980 Jim Kijima started working as an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
After he returned from England in 1988 he was appointed associate professor of Management Systems in the same department.
Kijima's research interests are in systems-science-based approach to decision making and information.
[2] In 2006 he received a major grant from the government on agent-based modelling and systems research.
[3] Kijima has written some books and has published more than fifty refereed papers in high-quality international journals.