25 May 2019



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Nichiei keizai kankeishi kenkyu, 1860-1940
[Historical studies in Anglo-Japanese economic relations, 1860-1940]
Tokyo: Keio University Press, June 2017

BabaTatsui: nikki to iko (main editor)
[Baba Tatsui: His diaries and works]
Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2015

Economic history of energy and environment (editor)
Tokyo: Springer, 2015

Gurobaru keizaishi nyumon
[An introduction to global economic history]
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, November 2014

Nihon keizaishi from kinsei to gendai
[An economic history of Japan from Tokugawa era to the present time]
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, May 2012

The oriental economist, 30 June 2012Nihon keizai shimbun, 8 July 2012



Current position:
Professor, Emeritus, Keio University, Tokyo


Major research fields:
Economic history of Japan and Asia from the seventeenth century onwards


Education and employment:
BA in Economics, Waseda University, 1972
MA in Economics, Waseda University, 1975
Ph.D. in History, University of London, 1981
Research Officer, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1981~84
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Keio University, 1984~91
Professor, Department of Economics, Keio University, 1991~2014
Director, Information Technology Center, Keio University, 2001~2005
Director, Keio University Library, 2005~2009
President, The Socio-Economic History Society, Japan, 2011~2014



English Outlines of my Lectures on the Web
Economic History of Japan
Introduction to the Economic History of Japan and Asia



Publications: Books, Articles

Recent English Publications

 'The formation of the infrastructure for industrialization', in Economic history of Japan, 1858-1914, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
 'The development of foreign trade', in Economic history of Japan, 1858-1914, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
 '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)

 '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)
 Janet Hunter and S. Sugiyama (eds), The history of Anglo-Japanese relations, 1600〜2000
volume 4: economic and business relations(London:Palgrave,December 2001)

 S. Sugiyama and Linda Grove (eds), Commercial networks in modern Asia(Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 2001)



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