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- 'The formation of the infrastructure for industrialization', in Takeshi Abe et.al, Economic history of Japan 1860-1914: The age of industrilization (The economic history of Japan, 1600-1990, vol.2), Oxford University Press, 2023 (forthcoming).
- 'Capital movements and the development of foreign trade', in Takeshi Abe et.al, Economic history of Japan 1860-1914: The age of industrilization (The economic history of Japan, 1600-1990, vol.2), Oxford University Press, 2023 (forthcoming).
- 'Meiji zenki ni okeru yubin/denshin jigyo no sai-kento' (The balance sheets of the postal and telegraphic services in the early Meiji period), Yusei Hakubutsukan kenkyu kiyo (Journal of Postal Museum Japan), no.14, March 2023.
- '"Heisei" keizaishi sanju-nen' [Thirty year economic history of the Heisei period, 1989-2019], Nihon rekishi [Journal of Japanese history], No.853, June 2019.
- 'Nagasaki to Takashima Tanko' [The Takashima coal mine and Nagasaki], in Kazuko Furuta (ed.), Toshi kara manabu Ajia keizaishi [Asian economci history from the viewpoint of cities], Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2019.
- 'Fukuzawa Yukichi to bunmei kaika' [Fukuzawa Yukichi's understanding of 'civilisation and enlightenment'], Yusei Hakubutsukan kenkyu kiyo [Joural of the Postal Museum of Japan], No.10, March 2019.
- 'Ajia sekitan boeki ni okeru Nihon to Indo' [Japan and India in the Asian coal trade, 1880`1914], in Shigeru Akita (ed), "Dai bunki" o koete [Beyond "the great divergence": Re-consideration of the ninteenth century in Asian perspective], Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 2018.
- 'Nihon no sangyoka to doryoku enerugii no tenkan' [Changes in power sources during the process of industrialization in Japan, with special reference to cotton and silk reeling], Shakai keizai shigaku [Socio-economic history], vol.82, no.2, Augustr 2016.
- 'Fukuzawa Momosuke to Matsunaga Yasuzaemon' [Momosuke Fukuzawa and Yasuzaemon Matsunaga], Mita hyoron [Keio review], July 2016.
- 'Baba Tatsui den' [The life of Baba Tatsui, 1850`1888], in S. Sugiyama and Masaru Kawasaki (eds), Baba Tatsui: nikki to iko [Baba Tatsui: His diaries and works], Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2015.
- '"Nihon no sangyo kakumei" saiko' ["The industrial revolution of Japan" reconsidered], Mita gakkai zasshi [Mita journal of economcis], vol.108, no.2, July 2015.
- 'From firewood to coal: deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in modern Japan', in S. Sugiyama (ed.), Economic history of energy and environment,
Tokyo: Springer, 2015.
- 'Senzen-ki Tokyo ni okeru shichiya-gyo no tokei-teki bunseki' [A statistical analysis of pawnbroking in pre-war Japan], Shakai keizai shigaku [Socio-economic history], vol.80, no.3, November 2014.
- '"Keisha seisan" koso to shizai rodoryoku shikin mondai' [Materials, labour force and finance of "Priority production system" in post-war Japan], in S. Sugiyama and Toshiaki Ushijima (eds), Nihon sekitan sangyo no suitai [The decline of Japanese coal industry], Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2012.
- 'Joyaku taisei to kyoryuchi boeki' [Treaty port trade and the treaty system in modern Japan], Higashi Ajia kindaishi [Studiees in modern history of east Asia], no.13, March 2010.
- 'Gaikoku shonin no katsudo' [Business activities of Western merchants in Japan, 1859-1899], in Takeshi Abe and Naofumi Nakamura (eds), Sangyo kakumei to kigyo keiei, 1882`1914 [Industrial revolution and corporate management] (Koza Nihon keiei-shi [Lectures on business history of Japan]. vol.2), Kyoto: Minerva Shobo, 2010.
- 'From firewood to coal: deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in modern Japan', in Makoto Yano (ed.), The Japanese economy: a market quality perspective, Keio University Press, 2008.
- 'Kin-kaikin ronso: Inouye Junnosuke to sekai keizai' [The controversy over the suspension of the Japanese gold embargo from 1920s to the early 1930s: Junnosuke Inouye and the international economy], in S. Sugiyama (ed), "Teikoku" no keizaigaku [The economics of "the Japanese empire"] (editor), Vol.2 of Iwanami koza "Teikoku" Nihon no gakuchi [Iwanami readings on The discourse of "the Japanese empire" ], Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2006.
- 'Meiji Nihon no boeki kankyo: Kahei Seido Chosakai Hokoku o yomu' [The trade environment of Meiji Japan: a closer examination of the Report of the Committee on Currency Systems], Mita shogaku kenkyu [Mita business review], vol.48, no.5, December 2005.
- 'Singapore', in John J. McCusker (ed), Economic history of world trade, Macmillan, 2005.
- 'Thomas B. Glover', in Oxford dictionary of national biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
- 'Anglo-Japanese economic relations in historical perspective, 1600`2000: trade and industry, finance, technology and the industrial challenge', in Janet Hunter and S. Sugiyama(eds), The history of Anglo-Japanese relations, 1600`2000, volume 4: economic and business relations, London: Palgrave, 2001, Chap.1.
- 'Ekibyo to jinko: Bakumatsu Ishin-ki no Nihon' [Epidemics and demography in nineteenth century Japan], in Hayami Akira et al. (eds), Rekishi jikogaku no furontyia [Frontiers of historical demography], Tokyo: Toyo Keizai ShinposhaCOctober 2001.
- 'Tsushin nettowaku to chiho keizai: Meiji-ki Nagano-ken no yubin to denshin o chushin ni' [The development of information networks in Nagano prefecture during the Meiji period], Yubinshi kenkyu [Bulletin of the Postal History Society of Japan], no.12, October 2001.
- 'Commercial networks in modern Asia, 1850`1950', in Masao Nakamura (ed.), Japan in the global age, Vancouver: The Centre for Japanese Research, The University of British Columbia, 2001.
- 'Nichiei keizai kankei-shi, 1600`2000' [Anglo-Japanese economic relations in historical perspective, 1600`2000] (with Janet Hunter), in Janet Hunter and S. Sugiyama (eds), Nichiei koryu-shi [The history of Anglo-Japanese relations], vol.4: Keizai [the economic dimension], Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, 2001.
- 'Marketing and Competition in China, 1895-1932: The Taikoo Sugar Refinery', in S. Sugiyama and Linda Grove (eds), Commercial networks in modern Asia, Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001.
- 'Seishigyo no hatten to nenryo mondai: kindai Suwa no kankyo keizaishi' [The problem of fuel: an economic history of the environment with reference to the Nagano silk reeling industry] (with Yamada Izumi), Shakai keizai shigaku [Socio-economic history], vol.65, no.2, July 1999.
- 'Swire shokai no hanbai nettowaku' [Marketing networks of John Swire & Sons in China: The Taikoo Sugar Refinery]Cin S.Sugiyama and Linda Grove (eds), Kindai Ajia no ryutsu nettowaku [Commercial networks in modern Asia], Tokyo: Sobunsha, 1999.
- 'Gaiatsu-ron' [On the Western impact on Japan during the late Tokugawa and early Meiji Japan], and 'Burokku-ka to kokusai keizai masatsu' [Inernational commercial rivalry and the formation of economic blocks in the interwar period], in Toriumi Yasushi et.al. (eds), Nihon kin-gendaishi kenkyu jiten [A dictionary of research into modern Japanese history], Tokyo: Tokyodo Shuppan, 1999.
- 'Boeki to shihon ido' [Foreign trade and capital transfer], in Nishikawa Shunsaku, Odaka Konosuke and Saito Osamu (eds), Nihon keizai no nihyakunen [The Japanese economy over the past two hundred years], Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Hyoron-sha, 1996.
- 'Bakumatsu kaiko to ekibyo' [Epidemics and the opening of the ports in mid-nineteenth century Japan], in Hayami Akira and Machida Hiroshi (eds), Jinko, ekibyo, saigai [Population, epidemics and natural disasters], vol.7 of Bunmei to kankyo [Civilisation and the environment], Tokyo: Asakura Shoten, 1995.
- 'The expansion of Japan's cotton textile exports into Southeast Asia', in S.Sugiyama and M.C.Guerrero (eds), International commercial rivalry in Southeast Asia in the interwar period, New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Monograph, No.39, 1994.
- 'Joho nettowaku to chiho keizai' [Information networks in modern Japan and their effect on regional economies], in Nenpo kindai Nihon kenkyu [Studies of modern Japan], Tokyo: Yamakawa Shuppansha, 1992
- 'Joho no keizai-shi' [Survey on the history of information], in Shakai Keizai Shigakkai [Socio-Economic History Society] (ed.), Shakai keizai shigaku no kadai to tenbo [Issues and prospects for socio-economic history], Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 1992.
- 'Joho kakumei' [The information revolution in Meiji Japan], Nishikawa Shunsaku and Yamamoto Yuzo (eds), Nihon keizaishi [Economic history of Japan], vol.5, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1990.
- 'Kokusai kankyo to gaikoku boeki' [Japan's foreign trade and the international environment in the second half of the nineteenth century], in Umemura Mataji and Yamamoto Yuzo (eds), Nihon keizaishi [Economic history of Japan], vol.3, Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1989.
- 'Jukyu-seiki kohanki ni okeru higashi Ajia seito shijo no kozo: Hongkong seitogyo no hatten to Nihon shijo' [The structure of the east Asian refined-sugar market in the second half of the nineteenth century], in Hayami Akira, Saito Osamu and S. Sugiyama (eds), Tokugawa shakai kara no tenbo [Observations from the viewpoint of Tokugawa society], Tokyo: Dobunkan, 1989.
- 'Amerika ni okeru Baba Tatsui' [Baba Tatsui in the United States], in Fukuzawa Yukichi nenkan [Annual Fukuzawa Yukichi review ]', vol.15, October 1988.
- 'Textile marketing in East Asia, 1860-1914', Textile history, vol.19, no.2, October 1988.
- 'A British trading firm in the Far East: John Swire & Sons, 1867-1914', in S.Yonekawa and H.Yoshihara (eds), Business history of general trading companies, Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1987.
- 'The impact of the opening of the ports on domestic Japanese industry: The case of silk and cotton', Economic studies quarterly, vol.38, no.4, December 1987.
- 'Nihon men-seihin no Ajia shijo shinshutsu to Igirisu shihon no hanno' [The advance of Japanese cotton textiles into the Asian market and the British response, with special reference to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce], in Shimizu Hajime (ed.), Ryotaisenkanki Nihon Tonan-Ajia kankei no shoso [Aspects of the relationship between Japan and Southeast Asia in the interwar period], Tokyo: Ajia Keizai Kenkyujo, 1986.
- 'Meiji-zenki ni okeru yubin nettowaku' [The formation of the Japanese postal network in the early Meiji period: towards an economic history of information], Mita gakkai zasshi [Mita journal of economics], vol.79, no.3, August 1986.
- 'Higashi-Ajia ni okeru gaiatsu no kozo' [Rethinking the western impact on East Asia], Rekishigaku kenkyu [Historical studies], no.560, October 1986.
- 'Japan's Trade with Korea, 1876-1895, as reflected in British Sources', Aspects of Anglo-Korean Relations, Part Q, London: ICERD, London School of Economics, May 1984.
- 'Thomas B. Glover: A British merchant in Japan, 1861-1870', Business history, vol.26, no.2, July 1984.
- 'Nihon seishigyo no hatten to kaigai shijo' [The role of overseas markets in the development of silk industry], Mita gakkai zasshi [Mita journal of economics], vol.76, no.2, June 1983.
- 'Nihon sekitangyo no hatten to Ajia sekitan shijo' [The Asian coal market and the development of the Japanese coal industry], Kikan gendai keizai [Quarterly journal of economics], no.47, April 1982.
- 'Bakumatsu Meiji-shoki ni okeru kiito yushutsu no suryoteki sai-kento: London, Lyon shijo no doko to gaisho' [A quantitative review of Japanese raw silk exports in the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods: foreign merchants and the London and Lyon raw silk markets], Shakai keizai shigaku [Socio-economic history], vol.45, no.3, October 1979.
- 'Bakumatsu Meiji-shoki ni okeru sekitan yushutsu no doko to Shanghai sekitan shijo' [The Shanghai coal market and the Japanese coal industry in the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods], Shakai keizai shigaku [Socio-economic history], vol.45, no.3, March 1978.