Information Bulletin of

The Union of National
Economic Associations in Japan

2023

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NO. -

ISSN 2423 8430

日本経済学会連合

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Editorial Committee
Managing Editor

Directors of the Union
President

Takahide KOSAKA (Nihon University)
Taku OKAZAKI (Hagoromo University of International
Studies)
Yukiko SUZUKI (Nihon University)
Tatsuya SAKAMOTO (Waseda University)
Kazuhito ISOMURA (Chuo University)
Koji KATO (Nihon University)
SANG Haixia (Kyoto Tachibana University)
Nobuyuki INAMIZU (University of Tokyo)
Keigo KAMEDA (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Wakana SHUTO (Rikkyo University)
Satomi KUROSU (Reitaku University)
Toshikazu TAKAHASHI (Rissho University)

Mitsuhide SHIRAKI, Waseda University
Toshiaki USHIJIMA, Keio University
Tetsuji OKAZAKI, University of Tokyo
Norio KAMBAYASHI, Kobe University
Kohei KOMAMURA, Keio University
Junjiro SHINTAKU, University of Tokyo
Sugio BABA, Senshu University
Yumiko MIWA, Meiji University
Kazuhiko YAGO, Waseda University
Kenshi YAMAKURA, Otsuma Women’s University

Secretary General
Keiichi HASEGAWA, Waseda University
Auditor
Mamoru KOBAYASHI, Senshu University
Masayuki TANIMORI, Senshu University
Emeritus
Kenichi ENATSU, Waseda University
Yasuhiro OGURA, Toyo University
Yoshiharu KUWANA, J. F. Oberlin University
Mitsuhiko TSURUTA, Chuo University

THE UNION OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC ASSOCIATIONS IN JAPAN
日本経済学会連合
The Union of National Economic Associations in Japan, established in 1950,
celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2020, as the sole nationwide federation of associationsof scholars and experts on economics, commerce, and business administration. In orderto obtain membership an association is subject to an examination of its academic work.
As of 2023, the Union had a membership of 62 associations, as listed on pp. 101-121.
The aims and objectives of the Union are to support the scholarly activities of its
member associations and to promote academic exchanges both among members
themselves, and between Japanese and academic societies overseas. The main activitiesof the Union are: (1) the publication and distribution of academic material concerning
Japanese economics and papers presented by member scholars, (2) the sending ofmembers to overseas conferences, (3) the holding and supporting of international
conferences in Japan, (4) providing financial assistance to member associations who
invite foreign scholars to Japan, and (5) collecting information on activities of member
associations and the issuing of a news bulletin.
The Union published in 1974 Keizaigaku No Doko (The Trend in Japanese
Economics), based on a survey of economic studies undertaken in postwar Japan. A
supplementary volume covering Japanese economic studies after 1974 was published in
1982.
The Union and the International Economic Association (IEA) jointly held the Fifth
World Congress of the IEA in Tokyo from August 29 to September 3, 1978. The Union
joined the International Institute of Public Finance in holding the Institute’s 37th Congress
at Tokyo in September 1981. The Union dispatched 20 member scholars to the Eighth
World Congress of IEA held in India in 1986. Most recently the Union successfullysponsored the IEA Tokyo Round Table Conference on “Institutions in a New DynamicSociety” held between 15 and 17 September 1987, and hosted the 1996 IEA Tokyo Round
Table Conference between 16 and 19 December, on the theme “The Institutional
Foundation of Economic Development in East Asia.” To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary,
the Union held a special lecture meeting on May 25, 2000. Three lecturers were invited
to speak on the theme, “The reforms that the 21st Century will bring to the world economy,
the Japanese economy, and Japanese management.”
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of this Association, a special lecture
program was held at the Waseda University Okuma Auditorium on October 12, 2010.

Three lecturers were invited, each of whom spoke from his own perspective on how
Japan’s economy and Japanese business, in the midst of this once-in-a-century global
recession, should solve their present plight and forge new routes for the future.
The Union has recently sponsored six Academic Forums. The first was held at Meiji
University on September 26, 2015 on the theme of “Examining Japan’s Human
Globalization ─ Human Resources, Systems and International Competitiveness”. The
second was held at Waseda University on October 1, 2016 on the theme of “Directions
for Post-TPP and World Trade Systems ─ Currents in mega-FTA”. The Third was held at
Waseda University, Waseda Campus on January 7, 2018 on the theme of “The Nationaland International Contribution of Japanese Accounting”. The fourth was held at Waseda
University, Waseda Campus on September 29, 2018 on the theme of “Training for
Entrepreneurs and Management Education”. The fifth was held at Waseda University,
Waseda Campus on December 7, 2019 on the theme of “How to Teach Economic History
at Undergraduate level?” The sixth was held via Zoom on March 5, 2022 on the theme of“International Division of Labor among Firms in East Asia ― on the Automobile
Industry’s Transition to Electric Vehicles”. The proceedings of six events can be accessedat the Union’s.
website: https://www.ibi-japan.co.jp/gakkairengo/htdocs/
The Union, established in 1950, has planned two projects in commemoration of its
70 years in existence: the web publication of “Towards Creation of a Sustainable
Economic Society in the 21st Century”, and an “Academic Channel” on YouTube. With
the publication on the web in November, and the release of the YouTube channel in
September, the Union is publicizing its own activities as well as communicating its
academic role to society as a whole.
Following on from our web publication to commemorate our 70th anniversary, it
has been decided to continue publishing on the web, under the revised title of Economics
and Business Forum. Contributions are to be invited from among members. On YouTube,
the Academic Channel will continue to be broadcast as before.
The Union celebrated in 1980 the 30th anniversary of its founding by launching avariety of activities, including the publication of The Information Bulletin.
Paul Snowden, Emeritus Professor of Waseda University, acts as editorial adviser.
Address :Secretariat of the Union, c/o International Business Institute Co., Ltd.
Tsukasa Building 3rd. F. , 518 Waseda Tsurumaki-cho, Shinjuku-ku,
Tokyo 162-0041, Japan

CONTENTS
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ASIAN MANAGEMENT, JAPAN SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATION FOR……………………… 1
COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC STUDIES, THE JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR………………

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COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT, JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE……… 14
HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT, THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR THE……………

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HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT THEORIES, THE SOCIETY FOR THE……………………

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND BUSINESS, JAPAN ACADEMY FOR…………………… 42
LOGISTICS SOCIETY, JAPAN………………………………………………………………… 50
ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCE, THE ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION FOR…………………… 60
PUBLIC FINANCE, JAPAN INSTITUTE OF…………………………………………………

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SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES, JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR…………………………………

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY……………………………………………………

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TRANSCULTURAL MANAGEMENT SOCIETY……………………………………………

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LIST OF MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS………………………………………………………… 101

SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY
The Socio-Economic History Society is one of the oldest and largest academic
communities of economic historians in Japan. The Society was founded in 1930 as thefirst nationwide organization and began publishing its periodical Shakai-Keizaishigaku(Socio-Economic History) in the following year. As of the 31st of December 2022, it has
1,315 individual and 57 institutional members.
It was in the early 1920s that the professionalization of economic history as an
academic discipline began. The world’s first academic journal was probably the German
Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte which appeared in 1923. It was
followed by the British Economic History Review in 1926, the American Journal of
Economic and Business History in 1927, and the French Annales d’histoire économiqueet sociale in 1929. The publication of Shakai-Keizaishigaku was in this trend. In fact, in
his inaugural address at the launch of Shakai-Keizaishigaku, Professor Yoshiro
HIRANUMA (Waseda University), one of the founders of the Society wrote, “Every time I
read the Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte published in Germany, I
have long hoped that scholars in our country would also contribute their expertise andpublicly release an academic journal of this kind” (1931, vol. 1, no. 1).
The number of members of the Society, more than 1,300, is comparable to the
Economic History Society (UK) and the Economic History Association (US). Together
with other related learned societies, the Business History Society and the Political
Economy and Economic History Society, Japan’s economic history population seems to
be one of the largest in the world.
The main purpose of the Society is to promote studies in economic history andrelated fields such as legal history, political history, social history, and others. Two of
the society’s main activities are the publication of Shakai-Keizaishigaku and the annual
conference.
Currently, Shakai-Keizaishigaku is a quarterly journal, and each issue has three tofour academic articles and many book reviews. In the five academic years between 2018and 2022, it published 76 articles in total. The journal primarily features articles on themodern era, but it covers topics ranging from ancient times to the 20th century. While
48 out of the 76 articles are about the 20th century, 13 papers discuss early modern andmedieval societies and economies. It is a strong tradition of the Society that the interestsof our members are not confined to Japanese economic, social, or business history.
While more than half of the articles (41) focus on Japan’s experiences in the past, asignificant number of the articles (35) discuss European, Asian, and African countries

86and regions. Previously, discussions of foreign economic history largely centred on
European countries such as England, Germany, and France. But lately, there has been agrowing interest in the history of Asia and Africa. In fact, among the 76 papers
published between 2018 and 2022, Asian and African economic history papers (19)outnumbered the papers on Europe and north America (16). Every two years, theSociety awards a prize to outstanding papers from those published in
Shakai-Keizaishigaku. The following is the list of recent award-winning papers, whichshows the diversity and trend of topics discussed by our members.
Winners in 2018
UEDA, Akira (2016), “The reconstruction of cotton cultivation in the Ferghana
region, 1917-1929” (vol. 82, no. 2).
TAGA, Yoshihiro (2017), “Introduction of silver for tax payment in 19th century
Vietnam” (vol. 83, no. 1).
Winners in 2020
SAITO, Osamu (2018), “Japan’s Population in 1600: an attempt to reconstruct thehistory of population and economy in the seventeenth century” (vol. 84, no. 1).
MIDORIKAWA, Kazuo (2019), “Estimating the productivity of paddy fields inancient and medieval Japan” (vol. 85, no. 2).
SAKAI, Kazuho (2018), “Unifying regional society through sharing a common
fund: modern ownership and premodern inherited common property in thetransitional period between premodern and modern Japan” (vol. 84, no. 2).
Winners in 2022
ANNAKA, Susumu (2020), “Delinquent land tax and suicide during the period of
Matsukata Finance: Prefectural Panel Data Analysis” (vol. 86, no. 1).
OKUBO, Shohei (2020), “The Dutch East India Company and the Opium Society
during the middle of the eighteenth century: the creation of opium privilege by
the High Government of Batavia” (vol. 86, no. 3).
HASEGAWA, Tatsuro (2021), “Changes in management of forest commons during
the Japanese high-growth period: a case study of Uruka in Hyogo Prefecture”(vol. 87, no. 1)
The annual conference is another important pillar of the Society. It follows a
two-day format: one day is for individual presentations (six to seven parallel sessions of87

five to seven papers each) and the other for panels (four to eight). A keynote lecture
serves as an integral component of the conference. Following a triennial cycle, thePresident of the Society, a distinguished economic historian from abroad, and a scholarfrom an academically adjacent discipline are invited to deliver presentations.
The COVID-19 pandemic unfortunately led to the cancellation of the 89th annual
conference scheduled for 2020 at Kobe University; it was held online in 2021 and 2022.
This year (2023), the 92nd annual conference was co-organized by Kyushu University
and Seinan Gakuin University and was held in person for the first time in four years.
While the 2020 Kobe conference was cancelled, the same organizing committee
continued to prepare for the 90th, which was the very first online conference in theSociety’s history, as many other academic organizations experienced. After theconclusion of the 90th conference, the committee conducted a survey among thedelegates, and the results have been reported in Shakai-Keizaishigaku (vol. 87, no. 4(February 2022)) together with their struggle to organize an online conference. This will
be an important historical record for the future historians to understand how academicorganizations have responded to the outbreak of epidemics.
The pandemic has accelerated the Society’s shift toward digital solutions for its
daily operations based on the experiences of the 2021 Kobe conference. Previously,
speakers at our annual conferences were expected to distribute hard copies of handouts.
To address this, the Kobe Committee established a file server, allowing participants todownload the necessary digital files at their convenience. In addition, they implemented
an online payment system for registration fees instead of money transfer through postal
ATMs. At the conferences in 2021 and 2022, both the board meeting and general
meeting, as well as individual presentations, were held via Zoom. These changes haveaffected our daily operations. The meeting of the editorial board of
Shakai-Keizaishigaku, which is more frequent than the board meeting, has now
completely shifted to an online format. As the Society has recently introduced an online
membership management system, not only the conference registration fees but also themembership dues can now be paid online. In terms of operational efficiency, thesechanges can be considered a positive aspect of the pandemic.
Internationalization, or globalization, is also an important concern of the Society.
A central forum for international collaboration among economic historians is the World
Economic History Congress (WEHC). This international academic conference isorganized every three years by the International Economic History Association (IEHA)
and is held in various locations around the world. The 17th WEHC, held in Kyoto in
2015, saw active involvement from the Socio-Economic History Society. The current

88president, Professor Tetsuji OKAZAKI (the University of Tokyo), was the chair of thelocal organizing committee, and most other committee members were also from theSociety. Since its launch in 1960, the WEHC has been primarily held in Europe, withthe exceptions of the 2002 congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the 2012 congressin Stellenbosch, South Africa. It was our great honour to host the first WEHC in Asia.
Professor Okazaki also served as the president of the IEHA for the term from 2015 to2018. At the time of the 17th WEHC, the Society provided bursaries for young members
to present papers at the congress. A similar financial support program was established
for the 18th WEHC in Boston in 2018, as well as for the 19th WEHC in Paris in 2022.
This support will continue for the next WEHC, which is scheduled to be held at Lund
University, Sweden, in 2025.
Another effort of internationalization is reflected in the format of the Society’s
quarterly journal. The format of article pages has been renewed since Volume 88(academic year 2022) of Shakai-Keizaishigaku. While the journal accepts submissions
only in Japanese, authors are required to provide English titles and 200-word abstracts.
Previously, the English titles and abstracts were grouped together at the back of thejournal, separate from the main articles. Starting with Volume 88, they have all been
consolidated and are featured on the first page of each article along with a suggested
citation style in English that includes Romanized notation of the original titles. The
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) also appears on the first page. As downloading PDF files
to read articles has become more common than reading them in booklet form, thisconsolidation of the bibliographic information has greatly improved the accessibility for
non-Japanese readers, especially for those who do not read Japanese but know someRomanized expressions.
Fostering young researchers also matters. Along with bursaries to attend theWEHC and deliver presentations, the Society has held its Next Tide Workshop annually.
Aiming to offer PhD students and other young researchers an opportunity to present
their work-in-progress papers and receive academic and practical feedback, theWorkshop started in 2011. Since 2018, we have conducted it in a new format. Eachcandidate is now required to submit a full paper, on which a senior researcher in thefield is obliged to read carefully and provide constructive feedback. This intensive
one-day workshop allows young researchers to share tips and best practices for paper
writing and encourages them to submit their papers to Shakai-Keizaishigaku.
In 2020, we celebrated the 90th anniversary of our society, and published anencyclopaedia as an anniversary project (The Socio-Economic History Society ed.
(2021), Shakai-Keizaishigaku Jiten (Encyclopaedia of Socio-Economic History),89

Maruzen). The Encyclopaedia is divided into 16 chapters and contains 298 entries with10 short articles. While it is about history of economy and society, the chapter structureis rather thematic than chronological. Chapter 1 is about the history of socio-economic
history, followed by five chapters on aspects of economic activities (trade andcommerce, production and technology, consumption, finance, and employment andlabor). Chapters 7, 8 and 9 focus on livelihood of people covering topics of social
welfare, medical care, public health, families, gender, etc., and Chapters 10 and 11
address transport and migration. Chapter 12 is specifically for environmental issues ofnatural resources, climate, and energy. Chapters 13 and 14 are about political and spatial
entities: cities and the state. The last two chapters discuss relations between nations,
including wars, international orders, and development programs. More than 240
contributors provide authoritative information on a wide range of subjects based on
their expertise. This serves as a useful guidebook for young researchers while also
deepening the general public’s understanding of societies and economies in the past.
Socio-economic history is an academic discipline in between humanities andsocial sciences. Providing a platform for exchange of ideas by the publication of
Shakai-Keizaishigaku and the annual conference as well as encouraging international
interaction and fostering young researchers, it is hoped that the Society will continue toplay a significant role for the development of this interdisciplinary field.
(Chiaki YAMAMOTO, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University)

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY
社会経済史学会
・Established: 1930
・Number of Members: 1,400
・Representative: Tetsuji OKAZAKI (University of Tokyo)
・Publication: Shakai Keizai Shigaku (Socio-Economic History) ― quarterly・Shakai Keizaishi Gakkai (Socio-Economic History Society)c/o Professor M.SHIZUMESchool of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University,
1-6-1, Nishiwaseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050, Japane-mail: sehs@kurenai.waseda.jp
http(s)://sehs.ssoj.info/
The next annual meeting will be held at Tokyo Metropolitan University on May 11-12, 2024.
THE JAPAN STATISTICAL SOCIETY
一般社団法人 日本統計学会
・Established: 1931
・Number of Members: 1,484
・President: Nobuhiko TERUI (Tokyo University of Science)・Publication: Journal of the Japan Statistical Society (Japanese) ― biannually
・The Japan Statistical Society
c/o Statistical Information Institute for Consulting and Analysis,
Nogaku Shorin Building 5F, 3-6, Kanda-Jinbo-cho, Chiyoda-ku,Tokyo, 101-0051, Japane-mail: shom@jss.gr.jp
http://www.jss.gr.jp/
The next Spring meeting will be held at Seijo University in March, 2024.
The next annual meeting will be held at Tokyo University of Science in September, 2024.
TRANSCULTURAL MANAGEMENT SOCIETY
異文化経営学会
・Established: 2003
・Number of Members: Individual 404, Institutional 9, Supporting member 1
・President: Emiko MAGOSHI (J. F. Oberlin University)
・Publication: Transcultural Management Review
・Secretary General, Transcultural Management Society
Professor Toshikazu TAKAHASHI,
Faculty of Business Administration, Rissho University,
4-2-16 Osaki, Shinagawa, Tokyo, 141-8602
e-mail: ibunkakeiei@gmail.com
https://ibunkakeiei.com/
The next meeting will be held at Waseda University (International Conference Center) on May 26 andc/oNovember 10, 2024.

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