Curriculum Vitae
June 23, 2024

Tomoko HASHINO (OTSUKA), Ph.D

Professor of Economic History
Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University
2-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe, Hyogo 657-8501 JAPANTel +81-78-803-6824
E-mail: hashino@econ.kobe-u.ac.jp
PERSONAL
Birth of Date: March 13th, 1968
Citizenship: Japanese
Language: Japanese (native), English (fluent), French (basic readings)

MAJORS
Economic history of modern Japan
Developmental history of modern JapanRESEARCH AREAS
Comparative economic history of weaving districts
Economic development and education
Global history of silk related industry1

DEGREES and EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
March 1990

BA in Literature (international studies), Tsuda College (Kodaira, Tokyo)

March 1992

MA in Public Administration (economics), International Christian University(Mitaka, Tokyo)

March 1994

MA in Economics, Hitotsubashi University (Kunitachi, Tokyo)

September 2002

PhD in Economics, Hitotsubashi University (Supervisor Prof. Osamu Satito)
Members of Dissertation Committee: Professors Osamu Saito, Yukihiko Kiyokawa,
Yoshitaka Suzuki, Takemaro Mori, and Masahiro Sato

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
April 1990- March 1998

Teaching Assistant, Section of Social Science, ICU (elementary statistics, Japaneseeconomy)

April 1998- March 2000

Research Associate, Department of Economics, Tokyo Metropolitan University

April 2000- March 2004

Lecturer of Economic History of Japan, Department of Economics, Komazawa
University

April 2004 to September 2013 Associate Professor of Economic History, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe
UniversityOctober 2013 to present

Professor of Economic History, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University

June 2023 to present

Independent Director, Seiren co., Ltd

VISITING POSITIONS
April 2007 - July 2007

Visiting Fellow, Australian Graduate School of Management, university of New
South Wales, Sydney (Sent by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology)

June 2011 - March 2012

Visiting Scholar, Department of History, George Washington University

October - December 2011

Visiting Scholar, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics andPolitical Science

September 2016 - January 2017

Visiting Scholar, Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University

April 2019 - June 2019

Visiting Scholar, School of Economics, University of Cape Town

April 2019 – March 2024

Visiting Professor, Asian Growth Research InstituteFebruary 2020 (1 month)

Visiting Scholar, LARHRA, Université Lumiére Lyon 2

RECENT PUBLICATIONSSINGLE-AUTHORED BOOK
Economic Development, Industrial Districts, Markets and Organizations: the Evolution and Dynamics in theSilk-Weaving Industry in Meiji Period (Minerva: Kyoto, 2007, in Japanese), ISBN978-4-623-04764-2.
2EDITED BOOKS
Industrial Districts in History and the Developing World (2016, Springer, Edited with Keijiro Otsuka),
ISBN978-981-10-0181-9

A Global History of Silk: Trade and Production from the 16th to the Mid-20th Century (2024 forthcoming, Springer,Edited with Pierre Vernus and Manuela Martini), ISBN978-3-031-61987-8

CO-AUTHORED BOOK
Japanese Business History for MBA Programs (Yuhikaku: Tokyo, 2007, written with Yoshitaka Suzuki and Keishi
Shiratori in Japanese), ISBN4-641-16279-4.

JOURNAL ARTICLES & CONTRIBUTED CHAPTERS ( English only)“Tradition and Interaction: Research Trends in Modern Japanese Industrial History.” in Australian EconomicHistory Review 44-3, 2004, pp. 241-258 (with Osamu Saito).

“Industrial District, the Rise and Growth of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Mechanical Engineering in theHigashi-Mikawa District.” in Japanese Research in Business History 2007 (volume24), 2008, pp. 53-75.

“Institutionalising Technical Education: The Case of Weaving Districts in Meiji Japan”, Australian Economic History
Review 52-1, 2012, pp. 25-42.

“Hand Looms, Power Looms, and Changing Production Organizations: The Case of the Kiryū Weaving District inEarly Twentieth-Century Japan.” Economic History Review 66(3), 2013, pp. 785-804 (with Keijiro Otsuka).

“Beyond Marshallian Agglomeration Economies: The Roles of the Local Trade Association in a Meiji Japan Weaving
District (1868-1912).” Business History Review 87, 2013, pp. 489-513 (with Takafumi Kurosawa).

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“Cluster-Based Industrial Development in Contemporary Development Countries and Modern Japanese EconomicHistory.” Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 30, 2013, pp. 19-32 (with Keijiro Otsuka).

“The Rise and Fall of Industlialisation: The Case of a Silk Weaving District in Modern Japan.” Australian Economic
History Review 60(1), 2020, pp. 46-72 (with Keijiro Otsuka).

BOOK CHAPTERS (English only)“The Rise of the Power-loom Factory in the Traditional Silk-weaving District.” in Tetsuji Okazaki ed. Production
Organizations in Japanese Economic Development (Routledge: London, 2007), pp 14-38.

“The Rise of the Japanese Synthetic Dye Industry during the First World War.” in Kobe University Economic Review
53, 2008, pp. 35-55.

“The Importance of Consular Reports for the Export Growth of Japanese Silk Fabric Habutae in the Late 19thCentury.” in Jorg Ulbert and Lukian Prijac eds., Die Welt der Konsulate im 19. Jh. / Consuls et services consulaires
au XIXe siecle / Consulship in the 19. Century, Dobu: Hamburg, 2010, pp. 485-501.

“The Survival Strategy of the Japanese Kimono Industry.” In Pierre-Yves Donze and Rika Fujioka eds., Global
Luxury: Organizational Change and Emerging Markets since the 1970s, Palgrave Macmillan: Singapore, 2017, pp.
257-274.

“Underlying Sources of Growth: First and Second Nature Geography.” In Stephen Broadberry and Kyoji Fukao eds.,
The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World Vol. I 1700 to 1870, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2021, pp. 339-368 (with Paul Garuna-Galizia and Max-Stephan Shulze).

“‘Swallowed.’ Economic History: The Significance of Economic History Research in Economics.” In Keijiro Otsuka
et al. eds., Next-Generation of Empirical Research in Economics, Singapore: Springer, 2024, pp. 167-192.
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PAPERS PRESENTED IN ENGLISH AT CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP (in English Only)“The Development of Textile Industry Districts and the Spread of Technical Schools During the Prewar Japan: The
Roles of the Graduates of Technical Schools.” the 16th Pan-Pacific Conference, Fiji, June 1999.

“‘Okamisan’s Role in Family Business: The Importance of the Owner’s Wife in the Management Strategy of theModern Weaving Industry.” at the 14th World Economic History Congress, University of Helsinki, Finland, August2006.

“Information Strategy by Government and Response of Weaving Districts: Expansion of Silk Fabric Export from thelate 19th to 20th Century Japan.” at Global History Workshop: Cross-regional Chains in Global History, Osaka
University, December 2007.

“Competition and Cooperation for the Fashion Market: A Comparison of the Modern Development of Textile
Districts in Japan and Europe.” at "FASHIONS: Business Practices in Historical Perspective. EBHA/BHC Joint
annual meeting, Bocconi University, Italy, June 2009 (with Takafumi Kurosawa).

“The Development of Modern Pulp and Paper Industry in Japan from late 19C to 20C: Rapid Catch-up Process inModernization.” at the 15th World Economic History Congress, University of Utrecht, the Netherland, August 2009.

“On the Historical Process of the Institutionalizing Technical Education: The Case of Weaving Districts in the Meiji
Japan.” at the 2010 CRMA Business History Conference, University of South Australia, Australia, July 2010.

“From the non-European Tradition to a Variation of the Japanese Model of Competitiveness:
The Modern Japanese Paper Industry in the Context of International Comparison.” at the EBHA conference,University of Glasgow, the United Kingdom, August 2010 (with Takafumi Kurosawa).
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“Historical Context of Institutionalizing Technical Education: The Case of Weaving Districts in Meiji Japan.” at the30th conference of the Portuguese Economic and Social History Association, School of Economics and Management
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, November 2010.

“Expansion and Transformation of the Export-Oriented Silk Weaving District: The Case of Fukui in Japan from1890 to 1919.” Osaka Workshop on Economics of Institutions and organizations, Osaka University, July 2012 (withKeijiro Otsuka).

“Expansion and Transformation of the Export-Oriented Silk Weaving District: The Case of Fukui in Japan from1890 to 1919.” Modern and Comparative Economic History Seminar, London School of Economics and PoliticalScience, February 2013 (with Keijiro Otsuka).

“Emergence of Luxury Market and the Survival of Japanese Traditional Kimono Weaving Industry in the Second Halfof the 20th century” at a pre-workshop for WEHC 2015 session titled ‘Global Luxury: Organizational Change andEmerging Markets in the Luxury Industry since the 1970s’, Neuchâtel University, Switzerland, November 2014.

“New Technology and New Marketing: The Case of Local Trade Association in Weaving Districts in Japan” at the17th World Economic History Congress, Kyoto, August 2015.

“Luxury Market and Survival: Japan's Traditional Kimono Weaving Industry after 1950s” at the 17th World Economic
History Congress, Kyoto, August 2015.

“Technology Transfer and Different Development Paths of Silk-weaving Districts in Modern Japan” at the 17th World
Economic History Congress, Kyoto, August 2015.

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“Technology Transfer and Different Development Paths of Silk-Weaving Districts in Modern Japan.” at Harvard
Workshop, Industries and Global Competition: Business beyond Borders in the Historical Perspective, Harvard
University, Cambridge, November 2015.

“The Rise and Fall of Industrialization and Changing Labor Intensity: The Case of an Export-Oriented Silk Weaving
District in Modern Japan.” at Osaka Workshop Economics of Institutions and Organizations, Osaka University,Osaka, July 2016 and July 2017.

“What Does Determine Success and Failure of Cluster-Based Industrial Development?” at the conference in
Ethiopian Development Research Institute (Support for Intellectual Lectures by the Prime Minister's Office), Addis
Ababa, September 2016 (with Keijiro Otsuka).

“The Rise and Fall of Industrialization and Changing Labor Intensity: The Case of Weaving Districts in Meiji Japan.”at Japan Lunch in Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,Stanford University, Stanford, December 2016.

“Role of Association in Facilitating Innovation.” at the seminar in Université FHB de Cocody, Abidjan, March 2017.

“Changing Tradition in Craft System in Japanese Textile Industry: Skill Intensity, Growing Linkage, and Innovation.”at the seminar in EHESS, Paris, September 2018.

“Modernization of the Tradition: The case of three silk-weaving districts in Japan, 1875-1930.” seminar at Asian
Research Institute, Kitakyushu, September 2019.

“Lessons from history of catching-up process of development in Japan.” seminars at University of Pretoria, Pretoria,October 2019.

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“From Lyon to Kyoto: The modernization of traditional silk weaving district in Kyoto, 1887-1929.” at seminar ofLARHRA/Triangle in Université Premiére Lyon 2, February 2020.

“From Lyon to Kyoto: Modernization of Traditional Silk-Weaving District in Japan, 1887-1929.” at workshop of‘Centuries of Cloth: Historical Approaches to the Story of Textile’ (by Economic History Society & Royal HistoricalSociety), January 2021.
“From Lyon to Kyoto: Modernization of Traditional Silk-Weaving District in Japan, 1887-1929.” Soies et soieries.
Métiers, échanges et production dans une perspective euro-asiatique du XVIIe au milieu du XXe siècle (Pré-sessiondu XIXe World Economic History Congress, organisée dans le cadre du programme ANR –TIME-US Rémunérationset usages du temps des hommes et des femmes dans le textile en France), Maison des sciences de l’homme deLyon-Saint-Étienne-LARHRA (UMR 5190), avec la participation des laboratoires ICT (Université de Paris) etTELEMME (université d’Aix-Marseille), May 2021.
“From Lyon to Kyoto: Modernization of Traditional Silk-Weaving District in Japan, 1887-1929.” Workshop in
Economic and Business History, Osaka University, October 2021.

RESEARCH FUNDS (principal researcher only)
KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2004-2007.
KAKENHI, Grants‐in‐aid for Scientific Research (C), 2007-2009.
KAKENHI, Grants‐in‐aid for Scientific Research (C), 2013-2015.
Japan Securities Scholarship Foundation, 2016-2019.
KAKENHI, Grants‐in‐aid for Scientific Research (C), 2017-2020.
The Murata Science Foundation, 2020-2022.
KAKENHI, Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research, 2021-2024.
Nomura Foundation, 2021-2024.
Japan Center for Economic Research, 2023.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS (in Japan)
Socio-Economic History Society (Director)
Political Economy & Economic History SocietyForum for Entrepreneurial Studies (Director)
Business History Society of Japan
Society for the History of Japanese Economic Thought

8LICENSE
Certificate for English Teacher at Junior High and High School, Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education, March1990.

OTHER ACADEMIC ACTITIVITY
Researcher, project of ‘Local industries in Japan’ organized by Foundation France-Japon de l’EHESS (from April
2018 to March 2019) http://ffj.ehess.fr/les_industries_de_proximite.html

OTHER SOCIAL ACTIVITY
Member, Institutional Review Board, Shinko Memorial Hospital, Kobe (April 2014- to present)
Councilor, Konoike Foundation, Osaka (June 2021- to present)
Economic Commentator in Kobe Newspaper evening edition (April 2022- March 2023)
Committee members of “Readers and Press” Committee in Kobe Newspaper（October 2022- to present）
Member of Academic council for J-InnovaTech Project (Council of Europe, Starting Grant research）(November2022- ）MY FAVORITE WORDS
The more I learn the more I realize I don't know. The more I realize I don't know the more I want to learn.
by Albert Einstein
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caringthat she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
by Audrey Hepburn9