Janet Elizabeth HUNTER

EDUCATION:

1976 D.Phil.(Oxon.) (Thesis title: A Study of the Career of Maejima Hisoka, 1835-1919)

1971-74 St. Antony's College, Oxford (academic year 1972-3 spent in )

1967-1971 B.A. Dual Honours (First Class) in Japanese/Economic and Social History, G.P.Jones Prize in Economic History, University of Sheffield

EMPLOYMENT:

2003-present – Saji Professor of Economic History, LSE

1991–2003 - Saji Senior Lecturer in Japanese Economic and Social History, LSE

1984-1991 - Saji Research Lecturer in Japanese Economic and Social History, LSE

1980-84 - Research Fellow, International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE

1974-80 - Lecturer in Modern Far Eastern History, with special reference to , University of Sheffield

AWARDS AND PRIZES:

Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (Government of Japan) (2014)

Winner of ISS-OUP Prize for ‘Technology Transfer and the Gendering of Communications Work: Japan in Comparative Historical Perspective’ Social Science Japan Journal 2011

FELLOWSHIPS:

Academy of Social Sciences

Royal Historical Society

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Oxford University: Tutorials in Japanese history.

Sheffield University: Postgraduate supervision Undergraduate courses: History of Japan Economic, Social and Political Development of Japan History of the Far East from 1840 (for the Department of History) Economic and Social History of Modern Japan (special subject for the Department of Economic and Social History) History of Japan 1894-1918 (special subject for the Department of History) Classes in Japanese language at all levels, with special emphasis on the reading of texts relating to 1 modern Japanese economic and social history.

LSE: PhD supervision Postgraduate courses: Economic and Social Change in East Asia Japanese Economic Development since the Late Nineteenth Century Development and Integration of the Modern World Economy Gender, Work and Industrialisation Approaches to Economic and Social History Japan and Korea as Developing Economies Economic Change in Global History Graduate dissertations in economic and global history Undergraduate courses: Comparative Economic Development: Late Industrialisation in Russia, India and Japan Issues in Modern Japanese Economic Development: Late Industrialisation, Imperialism and High Speed Growth Undergraduate dissertations in economic history LSE100 (Compulsory course for all LSE undergraduates)

Elsewhere: General lectures on economic and social development of modern Japan, comparative economic development, global economic history

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND OTHER RELATED APPOINTMENTS:

March 2013 Guest Professor, SESAMI Programme, Kōbe University, Japan

December 2012 Invited Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Classics, University of Tasmania

September 2012 Visiting Professor, Tsuda College and European Studies Institute, Japan

2011-present Invited Project Member, Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation ‘Gapponshugi’ project

March-April 2010 Visiting Professor, Department for International Development, Dalhousie University

March 2009: Visiting Professor, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

September-December 2008: Visiting Professor, Institute for Social Science, University of Tokyo May- March-May 2005: Visiting Professor, Centre for International Research on the Japanese Economy, University of Tokyo

August 2003: Visiting Professor, Hokusei Gakuen University, Sapporo, Japan

March-April, 1999: Invited scholar, Institute for Posts and Telecommunications Policy, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Tokyo

July-August, 1991: Academic visitor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, in receipt of Japan Foundation Professional Fellowship

1982-86 - Chief Examiner for University of London GCE 'A' and 'O' Level Japanese

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August 1977: Visiting scholar at Yokohama City University, in receipt of Japan Foundation Professional Fellowship

SERVICE AT LSE:

Deputy Director, STICERD, LSE (2014- ) Member, Strategic Review Advisory Board (2013) Member, Research Quality Investment Fund Committee (2012-13) Member, Ethics Policy Committee (2012-14) Member, Ethics Code Consultation Group (2012) Chair, Working Group on Research Centre Governance (2012) Member, Non-Professorial Contribution Committee (2011-13) Academic Member, Audit Committee (2010-14 ) Academic Member, LSE Council (Governing Body) (2010-16) Member, Asia Research Centre Management Committee (2010-15) Deputy PI, ESF Project on ‘Useful and Reliable Knowledge in East and West’ (PI Professor Patrick O’Brien) (2009-10) Member, LSE100 Management Committee (2009-12) Chair, LSE Scholarships Panel (2007-14) Head of Department, Economic History Department, LSE (2007-8, 2010-12) Co-Chair, Heads of Department Forum (2007-8) Acting Director, STICERD, LSE (2006-7) Research Student Tutor, Economic History Department (2002-7) Deputy Director, Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) (2001-6) Member, Joint Negotiating and Consultative Committee, LSE (1998-2007) Departmental Admissions Tutor and Admissions Committee (1993-5, 1996-8, 1999-2001) Committee on External Academic Activities (1993-8) Academic Planning & Resources Committee (1992-6) STICERD Planning Sub-committee (1991-2007) STICERD Steering Committee (1991-2007) Head,, STICERD International/Japanese Studies Programme (1989- ) 'Research at LSE' Working Group (1987-89) Research Committee (1987-90) Academic Studies Committee (1987-1992)

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:

Panel member, AAS workshop on Asian economic history (funded by Henry Luce Foundation) (2016- ) Co-Editor, Journal of Japanese Studies (2015- ) Member, International Advisory Board, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo (2014) Selection panel member, University of Ca' Foscari, Venice (2013) Editorial Board Member ‘SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan’ (Bloomsbury) (2013- ) Chair, Economic History Society Teaching Prize Committee (2011-12) Council Member, Economic History Society (2009-12) International Editorial Board Member, Japan Forum (2008- ) Panel member, Economic History Society Teaching Prize (2008) External Assessor, University of Kent Certificate course (Chaucer College) (2008) Selection Board Member, Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarships (2006-7) Editorial Board Member, Journal of Current Japanese Affairs (Japan Aktuell) (2006-8) 3

Member of Judging Panel, Japanese Speech Contest for University Students (2006) Committee Member, Advisory Committee for Japan Foundation London Office (2005-6) Member, UK-Japan 21st Century Group (from 2005) Assessor to Appointment Committee for Professorship of East Asian Studies, University of Bristol (2004 and 2007) External Advisor on Appointment Committee for Professorship of Japanese Business/Economics, University of Sheffield (2004) President, British Association for Japanese Studies (2003-6) Joint Convenor, Economics and Economic History Section, European Association for Japanese Studies Conference (Warsaw August 2003) Director, Pasold Research Fund (nominated by LSE) (2003-) Member, Japan Society of London Library Committee (2002-7) Member, Japan Society of London Lectures Committee (2002-6) Member, Economic History Society Schools and Colleges Committee (1997-2006) Member, Economic History Society Publications Committee (1996-2005) Steering Committee Member, Anglo-Japanese History Project (1996-2001) Elector to Professorship of Modern Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge (from 1997) Member, Higher Education Funding Council Asian Studies Panel for 1996 Research Assessment Exercise Chair, Japan Foundation Endowment Committee (1992-9) Deputy Editor, Japan Forum (OUP) (1992-4) Joint organizer of University of London Seminar on 'Japanese Economy and Society in Comparative Historical Perspective' (1990-1996) Editor, Japan Society of London Bulletin (1981-4) British Association for Japanese Studies Council Member (1976-77), Treasurer (1977-79), Secretary (1981-83)

Invited referee for tenure and promotion applications by academics in Britain, the , Hong Kong and Australia, and external member of appointments panels within the University of London Expert commentator for range of media in UK and beyond Occasional consultancy, including for Japan-related organisations and World Bank Economic Development Institute

EXTERNAL EXAMINING:

MA Japanese Studies SOAS (2009-11) MPhil. Japanese Studies, University of Oxford (2007-10) BA Japanese Culture and Society, University of Sussex (2003-5) BA Japanese Studies, University of Durham (1996-9) M.Phil./Ph.D. theses at universities of London, Oxford, Cambridge, Sheffield, Stirling, Warwick, Manchester, Adelaide

OTHER APPOINTMENTS: Trustee Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (2015- ) Trustee Japan Society of London (2016- ) Trustee, Lady Marks Charitable Trust (2016- )

MEMBERSHIP:

British Association for Japanese Studies European Association for Japanese Studies Economic History Society

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Association of Asian Studies (US) Japan Society of London Global Economic History Network

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS

‘Deficient in Commercial Morality’? Japan in Global Debates on Business Ethics in the Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Century (Palgrave Studies in Economic History, 2016)

(ed., with P.Francks), Rekishi no Naka no Shōhisha: Kindai Nihon ni okeru Shōhi to Nichijō Seikatsu (Hōsei University Press, 2016)

(Editor and introduction, with Penelope Francks), The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

Nihon no Kōgyōka to Josei Rōdō: Senzenki no Sen’i Sangyō (Tokyo: Yūhikaku, 2008)

(Editor and introduction, with Cornelia Storz) Institutional and Technological Change in Japan’s Economy: Past and Present (RoutledgeCurzon, 2006) (paperback edition 2012)

Women and the Labour Market in Japan’s Industrialising Economy: the Textile Industry before the Pacific War (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003) (paperback edition, 2009)

(Editor and contributor, with S.Sugiyama), History of Anglo-Japanese Relations vol.4, Economic and Business Relations (Palgrave, 2002)

(Editor and contributor, with S.Sugiyama), Nichiei Kōryū Shi vol.4, Keizai (University of Tokyo Press, 2001)

Japanese Economic History, 1930-1960 (editor and introductions to 10 vols. of reprints, Routledge, 2000)

(Editor and introduction, with J.Harriss & C.M.Lewis), The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development (Routledge, London, 1995) (paperback edition, 1997)

(Editor and contributor) Japanese Women Working (Routledge, 1993) (paperback edition 1995)

The Emergence of Modern Japan: An Introductory History since 1853 (Longman, 1989) (hardback and paperback editions) (print on demand edition, 2002)

Concise Dictionary of Modern Japanese History (University of California Press, 1984) (hardback and paperback editions)

JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

‘Modern Business and the Rise of the Japanese Middle Classes’, in Christof Dejung, Jűrgen Osterhammel & David Motadel (eds.), The Global Bourgeoisie: the Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire (forthcoming, Princeton University Press) 5

‘Obtaining Wealth Through Fair Means’: Putting Shibusawa Eiichi’s Views on Business Morality in Context, in P.Friednson & T.Kikkawa (eds.), Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective (forthcoming, University of Toronto Press, 2017)

(with Ian Nish) ‘Japan at LSE’, in H.Cortazzi & P.Kornicki (eds.), Japanese Studies in Britain: a Survey and History (Folkestone, Kent: Renaissance Books/Japan Society, 2016)

‘Earthquakes in Japan: a Review Article’, Modern Asian Studies 50, 1, January 2016, pp.415-435

‘Introduction’ to Special Section on ‘Regime Change in Public Finance: the Case of Interwar Japan’, in Asiatischen Studien – Études Asiatiques 69, 2, 2015, pp.419-422

‘Michio Morishima: an Economist Made in Japan’, in H.Cortazzi (ed.), Japan and Britain: Biographical Portraits IX (Global Oriental/Brill, 2014), pp.368-80

‘”Extreme Confusion and Disorder”? The Japanese Economy in the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923’, Journal of Asian Studies 73, 3, August 2014, pp.753-773

‘Entrepreneurs and States: Some Concluding Observations on Comparative Entrepreneurship and Industrialisation from Japan, China and the United States’, in J.Glassman, M.Kimura & S.Zhao (eds.), Entrepreneurs and the Creation of a Global Community: The Cases of China, Japan, and the United States (Nanjing University Press, 2014), pp.191-204

‘Kōsei na Shudan de Tomi o Eru: Kigyō Dōtoku to Shibusawa Eiichi’, in Takeo Kikkawa & Patrick Fridenson (eds.), Gurōbaru Shihonshugi no naka no Shibusawa Eiichi – Gappon Kyapitarizumu to Moraru (Tokyo: Tōyō Keizai Shinpōsha, 2014), pp.117-153

‘Reviving the Kansai Cotton Industry: Engineering Expertise and Knowledge Sharing in the Early Meiji Period’, Japan Forum 26, 1, March 2014, pp.65-88

‘Rural Manufacturing & Agricultural Production: Selling the ‘Backward’ Japanese Economy’, in A.Hotta- Lister & I.Nish (eds.), Commerce and Culture at the 1910 Japan-British Exhibition: Centenary Perspectives (Leiden & Boston: Global Oriental/Brill, 2012)

(with Penelope Francks) ‘Introduction: Japan’s Consumption History in Comparative Perspective’, in P.Francks & J.Hunter (eds.), The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850- 2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

‘People and Post Offices: Consumption and Postal Services in Japan from the 1870s to the 1970s’, in P.Francks & J.Hunter (eds.), The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850- 2000 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)

‘Technology Transfer and the Gendering of Communications Work: Meiji Japan in Comparative Historical Perspective’ Social Science Japan Journal 14, 1, Winter 2011, awarded ISS-OUP prize

‘Nature, Markets and State Response: the Drought of 1939 in Japan and Korea’, Australian Economic and Social History Review, vol.50, no.1, March 2010

(with Helen Macnaughtan) ‘Textile Workers in Japan’ and ‘Gender’, pp.305-332, 703-724 in L.Van Vos, E.Van Nederveen Merkerk & E.Hiemstra (eds.), Ashgate Companion to Global History of Textile 6

Workers (Ashgate, 2010)

‘Jendaa to Rōdōshi - Ikutsu ka no Hōhōronteki Teian’, Nihon Rōdō Kenkyū Zasshi 600, July 2010

‘Britain and the Japanese Economy during the First World War’, in P.Towle & N.M.Kosuge (eds.), Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century: One Hundred Years of Trade and Prejudice (London: I.B.Tauris, 2007)

‘Okuni no Haha? – Taiheiyō Sensō Jidai no Nihon no Josei to Rōdō’ (Mothers of the Nation? Women and Work in Japan at the Time of the Pacific War), Gunji Shigaku (Military History) 41, 4 (164), March 2006, pp.7-25

‘Nihon to Roshia no Keizai to Nichiro Sensō’ (The Japanese and Russian Economies and the Russo- Japanese War’), in Yamanashi Gakuin Daigaku Pōtsumasu Kōwa 100 Shūnen Kinen Purojekuto, Nichiro Senso to Pōtsumasu Kōwa (Kōfu, Yamanashi: Yamanashi Gakuin Daigaku, 2006), pp.32-61

‘Institutional Change in Meiji Japan: Image and Reality’ in M.Blomstrom & S.La Croix (eds.), Institutional Change in Japan (Routledge, 2006), pp.45-70 (also available at http://swopec.hhs.se/eijswp/abs/eijswp0203.htm)

'Gendering the Labour Market: Evidence from the Textile Industry of Interwar Japan', in Barbara Molony & Kathleen S. Uno (eds.), Gendering Modern Japanese History (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press, 2005), pp.359-392

‘Gender, Economics and Industrialisation: Approaches to the Economic History of Japanese Women, 1868-1945’, in G.Daniels & H.Tomida (eds.), Japanese Women Emerging from Subservience, 1868-1945’ (Global Oriental, 2005), pp.119-144

‘Bankers, Investors and Risk: British Capital and Japan during the Years of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance’, in Phillips O’Brien (ed.), The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922 (RoutledgeCurzon, 2004), pp.176-198

‘Maejima Hisoka, Nihon no Yūbin Seido Sōshisha’, in Ian Nish (ed.), Eikoku to Nihon: Nichiei Kōryū Jinbutsu Retsuden (Tokyo: Sōbunkan Shinsha, 2002)

(with S.Sugiyama) ‘Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations in Historical Perspective, 1600-2000: Trade and Industry, Finance, Technology and the Industrial Challenge’, in J.Hunter & S.Sugiyama (eds.), History of Anglo-Japanese Relations vol.4, Economic and Business Relations (Palgrave, 2002), pp.1-109 (with S.Sugiyama) ‘Nichiei Keizai Kankei Shi’, in J.Hunter & S.Sugiyama (eds.), Nichiei Kōryū Shi 1600-2000 vol.4, Keizai (University of Tokyo Press, 2001), pp.1-88

‘Female Migration and the Farm Family Economy in Interwar Japan’, in Pamela Sharpe (ed.), Women, Gender and Labour Migration: Historical and Global Perspectives (Routledge: London & New York, 2001), pp.244-258

‘The Roots of Divergence? Some Comments on Japan in the ‘Axial Age’, 1750-1850’, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History XXIV, 3/4, 2000, pp.75-88

'Textile Employers and Female Workers in Prewar Japan: Economic Imperatives in an Imperfect Labour Market', Keiei Ronshū (Meiji Daigaku) vol.45, nos.2-4, March, 1998, pp.147-165

‘Kikuchi Kyōzō: Nihon ni okeru Eikokushiki Gijutsu Kyōiku’, in H.Cortazzi & G.Daniels (eds.), Eikoku to Nihon: Kakyō no Hitobito (Shibunkaku Shuppan, , 1998) 7

'The Japanese Experience of Economic Development', in Patrick O'Brien (ed.), Industrialisation: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy (4 vols., Routledge, London & New York, 1998), vol.IV, pp.71-141

'Continuity and Change in the Japanese Labour Market: Rural Impoverishment and the Geographical Origins of Female Textile Workers', in S. Metzger-Court & W. Pascha (ed.), Japan's Socio-Economic Evolution: Continuity and Change (Japan Library (Curzon Press), Folkestone, Kent, 1996), pp.76-90

'Before Lifetime Employment: Employers and Employees in Prewar Japan', Proceedings of the Japan Society 126, Winter 1995, pp.21-32

'Men and Women' (from The Emergence of Modern Japan, ch.7) in T.Megarry (ed.), The Making of Modern Japan: a Reader (Greenwich University Press, 1995), pp.467-481

'The Meiji Background - Meiji no Jidai Haikei' in O.Impey & M.Fairley (eds.), Meiji no Takara - Treasures of Imperial Japan (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Japanese Art) (8 vols., Kibo Foundation, London, 1995) (published simultaneously in English and Japanese), vol.1, Selected Essays

'Maejima Hisoka, 1835-1919: Founder of Japan's Postal System' in I.Nish (ed.), Britain and Japan, Biographical Portraits (Japan Library, Folkestone, 1994), pp.54-66

'Cause e Conseguenze del Protezionismo Agricolo in Giappone: un Commento', Diritto ed Economia 7, 1-2, 1994, pp.261-268

`The Limits of Financial Power: Japanese Foreign Borrowing and the Russo-Japanese War' in A H Ion & J Ericson (eds.), Great Powers and Little Wars: the Limits of Power (Praeger, 1993), pp.145-165

‘Textile Factories, Tuberculosis and the Quality of Life in Industrialising Japan’ in J.Hunter (ed.), Japanese Women Working (Routledge, 1993), pp.69-97

`Japanese Women at Work, 1880-1920' History Today, May 1993

'An Absence of Change: Women in the Japanese Labour Force, 1937-1945', in T G Fraser & P C Lowe (eds) Conflict and Amity in East Asia: Essays in Honour of Ian Nish (Macmillan, 1992), pp.59-76

`Women in the Japanese Economy: a Historical Perspective' in The Academy of Korean Studies, Korean Studies, its Cross-Cultural Perspective II, Papers of the Sixth International Conference, 1990 (Songnam, 1991), pp.227-249

'British Training for Japanese Engineers: the Case of Kikuchi Kyozo', in H Cortazzi & G Daniels (eds) Britain & Japan, 1859-1991 (Routledge, 1991), pp.137-146

'Women's Labour Force Participation in Interwar Japan' Japan Forum, 2, 1, April 1990, pp.105-125

'Employer Resistance and Factory Legislation: the Abolition of Night Work in the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry' in T.Yui & K.Nakagawa (eds.) Japanese Management in Historical Perspective (Proceedings of the Fifteenth Fuji Conference, Tokyo, 1989), pp.243-272

'Language Reform in Meiji Japan - the Views of Maejima Hisoka' in J.P. Lehmann & S.Henny (eds.) Themes and Theories in Modern Japanese History - Essays in Honour of Richard Storry (Athlone Press, 1988), pp.101-120

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'Labour in the Japanese Silk Industry in the 1870s: The Tomioka Nikki of Wada Ei' in G.Daniels (ed.) Europe Interprets Japan (Tenterden, Kent, 1984), pp.20-25

'Recruitment in the Japanese Silk Reeling and Cotton Spinning Industries, 1870s-1930s', Proceedings of the British Association for Japanese Studies vol. 9 (Sheffield, 1984)

'Japanese Government Policy, Business Opinion and the Seoul-Pusan Railway, 1894-1906', Modern Asian Studies 11, No.4 (1977), pp.573-599

'The Abolition of Extraterritoriality in the Japanese Post Office, 1875-1881', Proceedings of the British Association for Japanese Studies 1, 1 (Sheffield, 1976), pp.17-37

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES AND SHORT NOTES

‘Introduction’ to Joseph Needham, ‘The Guns of Kaifeng-fu: China’s Development of Man’s First Chemical Explosive’, in D.Bates, J.Wallis & J.Winters (eds.), The Creighton Century, 1907-2007 (London: Institute of Historical Research, 2009)

‘Textile Industry in East Asia’ and ‘Traditional Industry’ for P.Stearns (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2008)

‘The Industrial Revolution in Japan’, in C.Rider (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution (2 vols., Greenwood Publishing, 2007)

‘The Economic Development of Modern Japan’ (Review Article), Business History 45, 1, Jan.2003, pp.151-4

‘All Change for Japanese Women?’, Euro-Japanese Journal VII, 1, Summer 2000, pp.18-21

'Tokugawa Japan' and 'Industrialising Japan' in Patrick O’Brien (ed.), Philip’s Atlas of World History (George Philip Limited, London, 1999)

‘La Place de la Femme dans l’Entreprise Japonaise’, Economie et Humanisme no.349, July, 1999, pp.36- 39

Entries for D.R.Woolf (ed.), A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing (Garland Publishing, New York, 1998)

'A Historical Perspective on Women in Japan' in C.Rubinstein (ed.), UK and Japan: Government and Society (Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, 1997), pp.99-105

`Meiji Period' & `Postwar Japan` in R Bowring & P Kornicki (eds.) Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Japan (Cambridge University Press, 1993)

DISCUSSION PAPERS, OCCASIONAL PAPERS

(with Kota Ogasawara) ‘Price Shocks in Disaster: the Great Kantō Earthquake in Japan, 1923’, LSE Economic History Working Paper 253, 2016

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‘Understanding the Economic History of Postal Services: some Preliminary Observations from Meiji Japan’, Centre for International Research on the Japanese Economy (CIRJE) Discussion Paper Series, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo, 2005

‘Institutional Change in Japan: Image and Reality’, European Institute for Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics, Working Paper 203 (2004), available through SWOPEC online at: http://swopec.hhs.se/eijswp/abs/eijswp0203.htm.

‘Gendering the Labour Market: Female Textile Workers in Interwar Japan’, in C.M.Lewis (ed.), Workers and ‘Subalterns’: A Comparative Study of Labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America, LSE Working Papers in Economic History 73/03, 2003

‘The Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the Development of the International Economy’, in Studies in the Anglo-Japanese Alliance (1902-1923), STICERD International Studies Discussion Paper IS/03/2003, LSE, 2003

(ed.), Japan: State and People in the Twentieth Century, STICERD Japanese Studies Discussion Paper JS/99/368, LSE, 1999

'Women in the Japanese Economy: an Historical Perspective' Philipps-Universität Marburg Centre for Japanese Studies Occasional Paper 9, 1992 (also reprinted in Erich Pauer & Regine Mathias (eds.), Japanische Frauengeschichte(n) (Marburger Japan-Reihe 12, Marburg, 1995))

`The Japanese Experience of Economic Development' EDI, The World Bank, 1993

`Textile Workers, Tuberculosis & the Quality of Life in Industrialising Japan', LSE Economic History Department Working Paper no. 4, 1992

'Japanese Economic History for Non-Specialists: Observations from LSE', in Japanese Economic History in Britain: Some Lessons from Teaching Experiences, Occasional Papers in Third World Economic History no. 2, SOAS 1991

(with I H Nish) 'British Writings on Japanese History' Japanese Studies Discussion Paper 1990/2 (STICERD, LSE, 1990)

'Women in the Japanese Economy of the 1920s and 1930s' (in I.H.Nish (ed.) Interwar Japan (STICERD Discussion Paper, 1989)

'The Textile Industry, Continuity and Change' ICERD International Studies (ed. Nish) 1981/2

TRANSLATIONS

(with C.P.Blamires) J.A.Schumpeter & Y.Takata (ed.M.Morishima), Power or Pure Economics (Macmillan: London & Basingstoke, 1998)

(with M. Alter) Max Weber, Confucianism and Taoism (abridged M.Morishima) ICERD Occasional Paper, 1984

CURRENT RESEARCH

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Concepts of commercial morality: Japan in comparative perspective

Business and the emergence of the middle class in Japan

The economic impact of the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923

INVITED PLENARY/KEYNOTE LECTURES

'"‘Bad Practices" and "Fraudulent Means": Japan and International Debates on Commercial Morality in the Late 19th – Early 20th Centuries', Japanese Studies Lecture, University of Leiden November 2014, and W.G. Beasley Memorial Lecture, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, December 2014

‘Typical Confucian Entrepreneurs and East Asia Civilization: Shibusawa Eiichi in Global Context’ Lecture at Dialogue on Confucian Entrepreneurs, Peking University, May 2014

‘Putting Shibusawa Eiichi’s Views on Ethical Business in Global Historical Perspective’, Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry, April 2014

‘The Economic Impact of Earthquakes in Modern Japan: Tokyo, Kobe and Tōhoku’, Public Lecture, University of Tasmania, December 2012

‘Gendering Textile Production in Modern Japan: the Doubtful Advantages of Cheap Female Labour’, Keynote Address, Conference on Textile, Dress and Decoration in Asia: Gender, Culture and Economic History, University of Tasmania, December 2012

‘Historical Relations and the Study of Relations between the UK and Japan’, EUSI International Workshop, Tokyo, September 2012

‘Comparative Gender Studies: Britain in the Japanese Mirror’, Tsuda College, Tokyo, September 2012

‘”The Markets have Collapsed into Complete Confusion”: Market Operation after the Great Kantō Earthquake of September 1923’, Asia and Europe in Global Context Conference, University of Heidelberg, October 2011

‘Entrepreneurs and States in Context’, Wuhan Normal University, Wuhan, China, December 2010

‘Gurōbaru na Hikaku kara mita Nihon no Sangyōka’, Shibusawa Memorial Museum, Tokyo, June 2009

‘Kōhatsu Kōgyōkoku ni okeru Rōdō no Jendaaka no Katei: Senzenki Nihon no Kōgyō Rōdō o Chūshin to shite’, Plenary session speaker, Gender History Conference, Tokyo, November 2008

‘For the Sake of the Nation: Maejima Hisoka and Communications Development in Meiji Japan’, Shibusawa North American Seminar Toronto, June 2005

‘The Russian and Japanese Economies on the Eve of the Russo-Japanese War’, International Conference on the Anniversary of the Portsmouth Peace, St. Petersburg, Russia, March 2004

SEMINAR AND CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED (since 2006) 11

‘Emergence of the Bourgeoisie and Middle Class in Modern Japan’. Université Paris Diderot, November 2016

‘Observations on Japanese Economic History’, AAS preliminary workshop on economic history in Asia, University of Michigan, May 2016

‘Price Shocks in Disaster: the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923’ (with Kota Ogasawara), Economic History Department, LSE, March 2016

‘Emergence of the Middle Class in Japan’, Conference on the Global Bourgeoisie, Cambridge, September 2015

‘Business and Morality: Can we Still Learn from Japan?’, International Symposium on Pioneering Ethical Capitalism, OECD, Paris, November 2013

'Deficient in Commercial Morality'? Japanese Business Ethics in Comparative Perspective, 1870s-1930s', Department of East Asian Studies, University of Texas, Austin, March 2013

‘Producing and Consuming: Analysing the Factors behind Japan’s Modern Economic Growth’, Faculty of Business, University of Tasmania, December 2012

‘Japan’s Consumption History in Comparative Perspective’, Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, March 2012

‘The Markets have Collapsed into Confusion; Markets after the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923’ Nissan Institute, Oxford University, June 2011; World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch, July 2012

‘Technology Transfer and the Gendering of Work: Meiji Japan in Comparative Historical Perspective’, Economics Department, Kōbe University, December 2008; World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, August 2009; Institute of Historical Research, November 2010

‘Disasters and Markets: Commodity Transactions after the Great Earthquake of 1923’, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, November 2008; Bank of Japan Research Department, December 2008

‘Nature, Markets and State Response: the Drought of 1939 in Japan and Korea’, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, December 2008; University of Cardiff, February 2009; World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, August 2009

‘Prices, Standards of Living and Material Incentives in Japan, 1937-1941’, Birkbeck College, London, February 2008, and Economic History Society Conference, Nottingham, March 2008

(with P.Howlett) ‘Social Compliance in Britain and Japan during the Second World War: Austerity, Rationing and the Black Market’, Workshop on ‘Constraints on Consumption’, Tartu, Estonia, May 2007

‘Labour Mobilisation, Prices and Standards of Living in Japan, 1937-41’, Workshop in Honour of Stephen Large, Cambridge, September 2006

‘Regimes of Technology Transfer in Japan’s Cotton Industry, 1860s-1880s’, Global History Conference, Kaiohsiung, Taiwan, May 2006

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‘Research in Economics and Economic History on Japan: Current Problems and New Trends’, International Workshop on Social Science Research, Institut für Asienkunde, Berlin, April 2006

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