Education

Career

Publications

• Keizaigaku wo Ajiwau (Tasting Economics), Tokyo: Nihon Hyoronsha,　2020　（Co-edited with Hidehiko Ichimura et al.)
• Hikaku Rekishi Seido Bunseki (Comparative Historical Institutional Analysis)　（Avner Greif), Tokyo: Chikuma Bunko, Transrated with Michihiro Kandori et. al.　

Papers

• “Elite Mobility and Continuity during a Regime Change,” forthcoming in British Journal of Sociology (with Tomoko Matsumoto)
• “Designing wartime economic controls: Productivity and firm dynamics in the Japanese cotton spinning industry, 1937–39,” forthcoming in Economic History Review
• “The Bright and Dark Sides of a Central Bank’s Financial Support to Local Banks after a Natural Disaster: Evidence from the Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923 Japan,　”forthcoming in Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (with Toshihiro Okubo and Eric Strobl)
• “Industrial cluster policy and transaction networks: Evidence from firm-level data in Japan,” forthcoming in Canadian Journal of Economic
• “Excess Capacity and Effectiveness of Policy Interventions: Evidence from the Cement Industry,” forthcoming in International Economic Review (with Ken Onishi and Naoki Wakamori)
• “Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan’s Early Industrialization,” forthcoming in American Economic Review (with Serguey Braguinsky, Atsushi Ohyama, and Chad Syverson)
• “Disentangling the Effects of Technological and Organizational Changes During the Rise of the Factory: The Case of the Japanese Weaving Industry, 1905-1914,” forthcoming in Economic History Review
  
• “Creative Destruction of Industries: Yokohama City in the Great Kanto Earthquake,” Journal of Economic History 79(1):　1-31　(with Toshihiro Okubo and Eric Strobl)
• "The Expanding Empire and Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities: The Case of Japan’s Colonization of Korea during the Pre-war Period" (with Kentaro Nakajima) ,Economic History Review 71(2): 593-616, 2018
• ”Measuring the extent and implications of corporate political connections in prewar Japan” (with Michiru Sawada) forthcoming in Explorations in Economic History, 2017
• ”Effects of Industrial Policy on Productivity: The Case of Import Quota Removal during Postwar Japan” (with Kozo Kiyota) forthcoming in Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2016
• “Impact of Natural Disasters on Industrial Agglomeration:The Case of the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923” (with Asuka Imaizumi and Kaori Ito) Explorations in Economic History, 60:52-68, 2016
• "Acquisitions, Productivity, and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry" (with Serguey, Braguinsky, Atsushi Ohyama,and Chad Syverson) American Economic Review, 105(7): 2086-2119, 2015
• “Sources of Productivity Improvement in Industrial Clusters: The Case of the Prewar Japanese Silk-Reeling Industry,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, May 2014, v. 46, pp. 27-41. (with Yutaka Arimoto and Nakajima, Kentaro)
• “Productivity Change and Mine Dynamics: The Coal Industry in Japan during World War II,” Jahrbuch fuer Wirtschaft Geschichte 2014/2:31-48, 2014
• “Interbank Networks in Prewar Japan: Structure and Implications,” Industrial and Corporate Change, April: 463-506, 2012 (with Michiru Sawada)
• “Supplier Networks and Aircraft Production in Wartime Japan” Economic History Review 67(3): 973-994, 2011
• “The Role of the Government in Facilitating TFP Growth during Japan’s Rapid-growth Era,” in Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Lalirajan eds. Community, Market and State in Development, 2011: 21-44 (with Shuhei Aoki, Julen Esteban-Pretel and Yasuyuki Sawada)
• “Agrarian Land Tenancy in Prewar Japan,” Developing Economies 48(3): 293-318, 2010 (with Yutaka Arimoto and Masaki Nakabayashi)
• “Industrial Policy Cuts Two Ways: Evidence from Cotton Spinning Firms in Japan, 1956-1964,” Journal of Law and Economics 53(3): 587-609, 2010 (with Kozo Kiyota)
• “Micro-aspects of Monetary Policy: Lender of Last Resort and Selection of Banks in Pre-war Japan,” Explorations in Economic History, 44(4): 657-679, 2007
• Effects of a Bank Consolidation Promotion Policy: Evaluating Bank Law in 1927 Japan,” Financial History Review, 14(1): 29-61, 2007 (with Michiru Sawada)
• “’Voice’ and ‘Exit’ in Japanese Firms during the Second World War: Sanpo Revisited,” Economic History Review, 59(2)：374-395, 2006
• “The Role of Merchant Coalition in Pre-modern Japanese Economic Development,” Explorations in Economic History, 42: 184-201, 2005
• “Measuring the Extent and Implications of Director Interlocking in Prewar Japanese Banking Industry,” Journal of Economic History, 65(4), 1082-1115, 2005, (with Michiru Sawada and Kazuki Yokoyama)
• “Foreign Technology Acquisition Policy and Firm Performance in Japan, 1957-1970: Micro-Aspects of Industrial Policy,” International Journal of Industrial Organization, 23(7-8): 563-586, 2005 (with Kozo Kiyota)