Archives

Publications

1. (Encyclopedia entry) "Japan", in John J. McCusker ed., History of World Trade since 1450, Thomson Gale, Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2005, pp.425-30.

1. “The Quality of Labour in Industrialisation: India and Japan Compared”, in Nobuko Nagasaki ed., Democracy and Development in South Asia: East Asian Comparative Perspectives, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, 2005, pp. 177-207.

1. “What Happened to Labour-Intensive Industry? Tirthankar Roy, Rethinking Economic Change in India: Labour and Livelihood”, Economic and Political Weekly, vol.40, no.52, December 24 2005, pp.5474-76.

1. "Sekaishi kara saguru Syorai", Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha ed., Shihonshugi no Mirai o Tou, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, December 2005, pp.107-21.

1. (Encyclopedia entries) "Indo Mengyo (Indian Cotton Textile Industry)", "Keiei Dairi Seido (The Monaging Agency System)", "Nenki Keiyaku Rodo Seido (The Indentured Labour System)", Inoguchi Takashi et al. eds, Kokusai Seiji Jiten, Kobundo, December 2005.

1. (Encyclopedia entry) "Japan", in John J. McCusker ed., History of World Trade since 1450, Thomson Gale, Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2005, pp.425-30.

1. "Higashi Ajia no Kiseki to Shihon Shugi no Yukue (The East Asian Miracle and the Future of Capitalism)", Keizai Semina, vol. 605, Octorber 2005, pp.22-26.

1. "Furanku Saigo no Hibi (The Last Days of Gunder Frank)", Kan, vol.22, September 2005, pp.354-58.

1. "Chiiki Togo (The Regional Integration)", Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha ed., Rekishi kara Yomu Gendai Keizai, Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, May 2005, pp.121-36.

1. （Ed.)Japan, China and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005 (Also part of OUP Scholarship Online. http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/index.html).

1. Reviews of the above volume appeared in Journal of Economic History (Volume 65, Issue 4, December 2005, by Carl Mosk) and EH.NET (Economic History Services, 17th December 2005, URL : http://www.eh.net/bookreviews/library/1022/shtml by Ming-Hsuan Lee).

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Joint Research Projects

1. Research Topic:In Search of Societal Mechanisms and Institutions for Conflict Resolution: Perspectives of Asian and African Studies and Beyond
2. Term:2005-2009
3. Sponsor:Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies
4. Leader:Nobuko Nagasaki, Faculty of Intercultural Communication, Ryukoku University
5. Outline:Research into conflict resolutions of the contemporary world from the perspectives of area studies in Asia and Africa.
6. No. of Members:30
7. Members in CSEAS:1

1. Research Topic:Global History and the Comparisons between Asia and Europe
2. Term:2005-2007
3. Sponsor:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Kakenhi), Scientific Research (B)
4. Leader:Shigeru Akita, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University
5. Outline:Research into global history through interactions with international scholarship and by engaging in recent debates.
6. No. of Members:7
7. Members in CSEAS:1

1. Research Topic:Global Economic History Network (GEHN)
2. Term:2003-2006
3. Sponsor:The Leverhulme Foundation (U.K.)
4. Leader:Patrick O’Brien, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics
5. Outline:Discussion, research and dissemination of major themes on global economic history through the organisation of eleven workshops, research and teaching fellowships in U.K., the U.S.A. and Japan, and publications of working papers and the Journal of Global History ( Camblidge University Press)
6. No. of Members:44
7. Members in CSEAS:1

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Seminars/Symposia

1. Title:JSPS-NRCT Core University Program Workshop “Toward a New Model of East Asian Society: Entrepreneurship and the Family”
2. Date:October, 14-15, 2005
3. Place:Clock Tower Centennial Hall, Kyoto University
4. Topic:"Reassessing the Asian Miracle: Making Markets in the Global Economy" by Gary G. Hamilton
5. Discussant:SUGIHARA, Kaoru

1. Title:Southeast Asian Seminor "Beyond Southeast Asia: New Perspectives on Overseas Chinese Studies through Historiographical Reflection
2. Date:September 6, 2005
3. Place:CSEAS, Kyoto University
4. Topic:The Asian International Economic Order and Chinese and Indians Overseas
5. Presenter:SUGIHARA, Kaoru

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Activities in Academic Associations

1. Chairperson
2. Title:Conference on the International Context of Conflicts in the Middle East and Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution
3. Topic:Fourth Session: Asian Approaches to Conflict Resolution
4. Place:The Afrasian Centre for Peace and Development Studies, Ryukoku University
5. Date:March 5, 2006

1. Presenter
2. Title:Economics of Trade and Development seminar
3. Topic:The Emergence of the Labour-intensive Industrialisation Strategy in Southeast Asia
4. Place:Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies , Australian National University
5. Date:February 21, 2006.

1. Keynote address (Noel Butlin lecture)
2. Title:Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference
3. Topic:Labour-intensive Industrialisation in Global History: Japan, East Asia and Beyond
4. Place:Faculty of Business, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
5. Date:February 17, 2006

1. Presenter
2. Title:Workshop on Global History and Asia-Europe
3. Topic:The Emergence of a Resource-saving Path of Economic Development in East Asia
4. Place:Nakanoshima Center, Osaka University
5. Date:January 14, 2006

1. Presenter
2. Title:GEHN Conference on Textiles and the World Economy, 1500-1820
3. Topic:The Resurgence of Intra-Asian Trade, 1800-1850
4. Place:Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (Le Meridien), Pune
5. Date:December 19, 2005

1. Discussant
2. Title:GEHN Conference on Textiles and the World Economy, 1500-1820
3. Topic:Cotton Textiles in China and Southeast Asia: Comments
4. Place:Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (Le Meridien), Pune
5. Date:December 19, 2005

1. Presenter
2. Title:"Meeting on Asian Perspectives on Total History"
3. Topic:The Global History of the "East Asian Micacle"
4. Place:Iwanami-Shoten
5. Date:November 27, 2005

1. Discussant
2. Title:GEHN Conference on Global History of Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850
3. Topic:Cotton and the Peasant Economy: Comments
4. Place:University of Padova, Italy
5. Date:November 18, 2005

1. Presenter
2. Title:The 18th Meeting for the Japanese Association for South Asian Studies, Panel II Rethinking Early Modern and Modern South Asian History
3. Topic:"From Deindustrialisation to Labour-intensive Industrialisation: Tirthankar Roy and the Revision in Indian Economic History"
4. Place:Ryukoku University
5. Date: October 2, 2005.

1. Discussant
2. Title:Conference on Technology and Long-run Economic Growth in Asia
3. Topic:Jean-Pascal Bassino and Pierre van der Eng, "The First East Asian Economic Miracle: A Comparison of Nominal Wages and welfare of Urban Workers in Southeast Asia, Japan and Europe, 1880-1938"
4. Place:Sano Shoin, Hitotsubashi University
5. Date:September 8, 2005.

1. Presenter
2. Title:The Summer Symposium for the Kinki Branch of the Japan Society of Socio-economic History
3. Topic:"Intra-Asian Trade in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century"
4. Place:Academic Extension Center, Osaka City University
5. Date:August 26, 2005.

1. Chairperson
2. Title:Plenary Session, Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Socio-economic History
3. Topic:"Europe's Catching up"
4. Place:Hitotsubashi University
5. Date:April 30, 2005

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Outside Activities

1. Presentation:The East Asian Miracle and the Future of Capitalism
2. Date:November 10, 2005.
3. Place:Roppongi Academyhills, Tokyo
4. Organizer:UCLA Asia Leadership Council Conference on Economic Sustainability

1. Journal;:Asia-Pacific Perspectives Japan+
2. Article:(Interview) Kaoru Sugihara,.
3. Vol. & Page:Vol. 2-12, pp.36-38
4. Date:April, 2005

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