• Professional Career

Graduated from Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University, March 1971

Completed the Doctor Course (Economics), University of Tokyo, March 1976

Lecturer (and Associate Professor), Faculty of Economics, Osaka City University, September 1978 - March 1985

Lecturer (and Senior Lecturer), Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, April 1985 - June 1996

Professor, Faculty of Economics (from 1997 Graduate School of Economics), Osaka University, July 1996 - March 2006

Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, from April 2006 to March 2012

Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, April 2012 - March 2013

Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, April 2013 - March 2014

Senior Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, April 2014 to date

• Selected publications

World Capitalism and Non-White Labour (in Japanese), edited with Kingo Tamai, Osaka Shiritsu Daigaku Keizai Gakkai, Osaka, 1983.

Slums of Osaka in the Taisho Period: Another Side of Modern Japanese History (in Japanese), edited with Kingo Tamai, Shinhyoron, Tokyo, 1986; revised and enlarged edition,1996, On-demand edition, 2008.

Japan in the Contemporary Middle East, edited with J. A. Allan, Routledge, London, 1993.

Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, c.1750-1960, edited with Gareth Austin, Macmillan, London, 1993.

Patterns and Development of Intra-Asian Trade (in Japanese), Mineruva Shobo, Kyoto. (in Korean), Dento to Gendaisha, Seoul, 2002.

Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India: Japanese Perspectives, ed. with Peter Robb and Haruka Yanagisawa, Curzon, London, 1996. Indian edition: Manohar, New Delhi, 1997.

Iwanami Series of World History Vol. 19, Human Migration: The Dynamism It Generates by Connecting Local and Regional Societies (in Japanese), volume editor, Iwanami Shoten, Tokyo, 1999.

The Rise of the Asia-Pacific Economy (in Japanese), Osaka Daigaku Shuppanakai, Osaka, 2003.

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

How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles, 1500-1850, edited by Giorgio Riello and Tirthankar Roy, with collaboration of Om Prakash and Kaoru Sugihara, Brill, Leiden, 2009.

Geosphere, Biosphere, Human Society: In Search of Sustainable Humanosphere (in Japanese), edited with Shuichi Kawai,Yasuyuki Kono and AkioTanabe, Kyoto Daigaku Shuppankai, Kyoto, 2010.

The Tropical Humanosphere in Global History (in Japanese), edited with Kohei Wakimura, Koichi Fujita and Akio Tanabe, Kyoto Daigaku Shuppankai, Kyoto, 2012.　

The Humanosphere Potentiality Index: Moving beyond the Human Development Index (in Japanese), edited with Takahiro Sato, Taizo Wada and Yoichi Mine, Kyoto Daigaku Shuppankai, Kyoto, 2012.

Labour-intensive Industrialization in Global History, edited with Gareth Austin, Routledge, London, 2013.

• Social contributions

Member, Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association, September 2006 - July 2012

President, Socio-Economic History Society of Japan, January 2009 - December 2010

Executive Member, Science Council of Japan, October 2011 to date

• Other notable avtivities and achievemets

Chairman, Japan Research Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, October 1988 - September 1992

Director, Postgraduate Diploma in Japanese and the Japanese Economy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, April 1990 - February 1992

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics, Osaka University, October 1992 - August 1993

Professorial Research Associate, Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, July 1996 - August 2004

Vice-Dean, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, June 2000 - March 2002

Visiting Researcher, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, April 2003 - March 2004

Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo, April 2010 - March 2012

Visiting Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, April 2012 to date

Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics, Ryukoku University, April 2013 to date

Member, Organising Committee, the London Third World Economic History Group, October 1985 - June 1996

Deputy Editor, Japan Forum (Oxford University Press), October 1988 - September 1992

Council Member, Third World Economic History and Development Group, U.K., October 1988 - June 1996

Member, Publications Committee, The Economic History Society, U.K., October 1993 - June 1996

Honorary Treasurer, The British Association for Japanese Studies, September 1994 - June 1996

Co-organiser and holder of the grant from the Leverhulme Foundation for the “Global Economic History Network” project, September 2002 ? September 2006

Executive Director and Chairman, International Exchange Committee, Socio-Economic History Society of Japan, January 2001 - December 2008

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Global History (Cambridge University Press), September 2005 to date

Chairman, IEHA Sub-Committee of the Economics Committee, Science Council of Japan, December 2006 - September 2011

Deputy Chairman, International Collaboration Sub-Committee of the International Committee, Science Council of Japan, October 2011 to date

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