Kindai Nihon no 'joho kakumei'
[The information revolution in modern Japan]
Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2024
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 2012／Nihon 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）