HASHIMOTO, Hisayoshi

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  • Position:
    Professor Emeritus, Visiting Professor
  • Degree:
    BA (Engineering), University of Tokyo
  Specialty:
  Small & Medium Scale Enterprises
• Current Research Interests:
  1) Next Agenda of Japanese SMEs. Their development under Globalization
  2) How Japanese SMEs can contribute to world economical development
• Professional Career:
  

  1969	Graduated Tokyo University, & joined Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI)
  1978-1981	Dispatch to JETRO Dusseldorf / West Germany as a researcher
  1987	Director of Casting & Forging Industry Division, Machinery Industry Bureau, MITI
  1989	Director of Technology Division, SME Agency, MITI
  1991	Director of Industrial Location Guidance Division, Industrial Location Bureau, MITI-
  1994	Professor, Graduate School of Policy Studies (GSPS), Saitama University
  1997	Professor of GRIPS
  2011	Professor Emeritus, Visiting Professor of GRIPS

• Selected publications:
  Creative SME�@�@�@Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 1996 (in Japanese)
  
  Basic Power of Japanese SMEs�@�@�@PHP Research Institute, 1998. (in Japanese)
  
  Women Entrepreneur emerging IT Era,�@�@�@Nikkan Kogyo Shinbun, 2001. (in Japanese)
  
  Japan will sink if SMEs sink,�@�@�@PHP Research Institute, 2002. (in Japanese)
  
  Japanese SMEs are Japan's treasure.�@�@�@PHP Research Institute, 2005. (in Japanese)