Jakob Nobuoka is currently working as a Senior Lecturer at University of Gävle. In autumn 2011 he started as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the European Institute of Japanese Studies at Stockholm School of Economics.

In 2010 he received a doctoral degree in Human Geography and continued working as a lecturer at Uppsala University. Jakob Nobuoka began studying at Uppsala University in 2000 and entered the PhD-program at the Department of Social and Economic Geography in 2006.