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This work was supported by the FFJ/Valeo Fellowship. Correspondence concerning this paper should be addressed to the author at minami-s2rk@mlit.go.jp. The author gratefully acknowledges the generous support and assistance of the Fondation France-Japon (FFJ) de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) and Valeo. The author would like to particularly thank Tetsuo Akiyama, Bruno Faivre d'Arcier, Hidetada Higashi, Arnaud Passalacqua, and Naoyuki Tsukamoto for their support and helpful comments on his work. The author would like to thank Enago for the English language review. The content of this paper is based on the author's personal research in FFJ-EHESS and is not the official view of the Policy Research Institute for Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism to which author belongs. ; This paper traces the interdependent development cycle of institutions and technology concerning sustainable mobility by analyzing the relationship between innovation and transportation policy in local governments. This paper spells out local government solutions to mobility problems using Sustainable Innovative Mobility Means (SIMM). Throughout the world, there are many SIMM projects that were implemented by local governments. Therefore, this paper focuses on local government as a main driver of SIMM. This research investigates optimal policies and the role and instruments of local governments in sustainable mobility innovation. This paper uses European and Japanese case studies and theoretical assumptions. Five roles and five instruments of local government in transportation policy have been analyzed in this paper. Actually, the importance of these roles and instruments varies by municipality, depending on factors such as the size and level of the local government and its relationship with the state. Innovative urban rail project cases in Japan and France gave us many indications of the role of local transport policy in innovating mobility technology. Some failed rail projects also have provided important ...

Abstract
This paper addresses issues related to narrative, cognition, and culture within the framework of foreign- or
second-language (L2) narrative discourse, using a methodology of connecting the story- and language-related qualities of narrative
discourse. The term "coherence" refers to whether or not a text makes sense at a global level, whereas "cohesion" describes the linguistic
relationships among clauses in a narrative, such as how its surface linguistic elements are linked together at a local level. The paper (1)
examines oral narratives, (2) reveals how both coherence and cohesion serve as the twin engines of narrative, and (3) emphasizes the
significance of noting not only the narrative content/structure but also the appropriate use of linguistic devices, to identify
language-specific ways of expressing affective elements in narrative. That is, the paper suggests the importance of developing conceptual
understanding of L2 forms (e.g., grammatical variables) and their stylistic significance.