No. 37
ISSN 2423- 8430

C ASSOCMIISIONATION OF NANUOAL ECOONNIT

Information Bulletin ofThe Union of National
Economic Associationsin Japan

日本経済学会連合

2017

THE

Correspondence to be addressed:
Secretariat of the Union of National Economic Associations in Japan,
c/o International Business Institute Co., Ltd.
Tsukasa Building 3rd. F. , 518
Waseda Tsurumaki-cho,Shinjuku-ku,
Tokyo 162-0041, Japane-mail: rengo@ibi-japan.co.jp

COPYRIGHT 2017 BY THE UNION OF NATIONAL ECONOMIC ASSOCIATIONS IN JAPANINTERNATIONAL BUSINESS INSTITUTE, CO., LTD. Tel. +81-3- 5273-0473
ISSN 2423-8430

Editorial Committee
Managing Editor

Takahide KOSAKA, Nihon University
Kazushi SHIMIZU, Kyushu University
Kotaro INOUE, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Rika KASHIWAGI, J. F. Oberlin University
Teiichi SEKIGUCHI, Chuo University
Toshihiko MATSUO, Osaka University of Commerce
Ken MATSUDA, Komazawa University
Hisanaga AMIKURA, Sophia University
Yoshihiko FUKUSHIMA, Waseda University
Sayako KANDA, Keio University

Directors of the Union
President

Kenichi ENATSU, Waseda University
Koji ISHIUCHI, Japan University of Economics
Tetsuji OKAZAKI, University of Tokyo
Yasuhiro OGURA, Toyo University
Shizuko KATO, Meiji UniversityTakahide KOSAKA, Nihon University
Motohiro SATO, Hitotsubashi University
Junjiro SHINTAKU, University of Tokyo
Mitsuhiko TSURUTA, Chuo University
Fumihiko HIRUMA, Waseda University

Secretary General
Masataka OTA, Waseda University
Auditor
Hideki YOSHIOKA, Takasaki University of Commerce
Saburo OTA, Chiba University of Commerce
Emeritus
Osamu NISHIZAWA, Waseda University
Toshio KIKUCHI, Nihon 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 60th anniversary in 2010, 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 2017, the Union had a membership of 63 associations, as listed on pp. 71-91.
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 in1982.
The Union and the International Economic Association (IEA) jointly held theFifth World Congress of the IEA in Tokyo from August 29 to September 3, 1978. TheUnion joined the International Institute of Public Finance in holding the Institute’s 37thCongress at Tokyo in September 1981. The Union dispatched 20 member scholars to theEighth World Congress of IEA held in India in 1986. Most recently the Union
successfully sponsored the IEA Tokyo Round Table Conference on “Institutions in a
New Dynamic Society” held between 15 and 17 September 1987, and hosted the 1996
IEA Tokyo Round Table Conference between 16 and 19 December, on the theme “TheInstitutional Foundation of Economic Development in East Asia.” To celebrate its
fiftieth anniversary, the Union held a special lecture meeting on May 25, 2000. Threelecturers were invited to speak on the theme, “The reforms that the 21st Century willbring 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 two Academic Forums. The first was held atMeiji University on September 26, 2015 on the theme of “Examining Japan’s HumanGlobalization ─ Human Resources, Systems and International Competitiveness”. The
second was held at Waseda University on October 1, 2016 on the theme of “Directionsfor Post-TPP and World Trade Systems ─ Currents in mega-FTA”. The proceedings ofboth events can be accessed at the Union’s
website: http://www.ibi-japan.co.jp/gakkairengo/htdocs/
The Union celebrated in 1980 the 30th anniversary of its founding by launching avariety of activities, including the publication of The Information Bulletin.
Vice-President and Professor Paul Snowden of Kyorin University acts as editorialadviser.
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

Page
ASIAN MANAGEMENT, JAPAN SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATION FORASIAN STUDIES, JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR…………………………………………… 6…………………………………………………………… 12FINANCE ASSOCIATION, JAPANINTERNATIONAL TRADE AND BUSINESS, JAPAN ACADEMY FORLABOR AND MANAGEMENT, JAPAN ACADEMY OFLOGISTICS SOCIETY, JAPAN…………………… 1………………… 16…………………………………… 22……………………………………………………………… 33

HISTORY OF MANAGEMENT THEORIES, THE SOCIETY FOR THE…………………… 40

ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCE, THE ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION FOR………………… 47

SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES, JAPAN ASSOCIATION FOR

SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY

LIST OF MEMBER ASSOCIATIONS………………………………… 56…………………………………………………… 66……………………………………………………… 71

SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY
Since the 1990s, cross-border trade, the movement of people and funds, and thetransmission of information have developed rapidly for a variety of reasons. These
include market deregulation via financial Big Bangs, advances in telecommunications
technology (the IT revolution), including the spread of the internet, and, politically, thedisintegration of the Soviet Union and the former socialist bloc in Eastern Europe. As
the economic and social interdependence between countries, or globalization,
accelerates, historical research is required to clarify the origins and processes that have
deepened ties across the world, rather than simply summing national histories.
Therefore, there is a need to build different methodological paradigms and frameworks
to go beyond the Western-centric approach, which reconstructs history by projecting aworld image based on 19th century Europe onto the past. In response to awareness of
this issue, global history research, which studies history panoramically and holisticallyfrom a global perspective, has been promoted in academic circles inside and outside ofJapan. Prominent British economic historian Patrick O’BRIAN (London School ofEconomics and Political Science) contributed “Historiographical Traditions and Modern
Imperatives for the Restoration of Global History” to the Journal of Global History
2006 issue, in which he described two main approaches: namely the history ofconnections, and comparative history (Journal of Global History (2006) 1, pp. 3 – 39).
Moreover, Japanese Indian historian Tsukasa MIZUSHIMA (The University of Tokyo)emphasizes the length of the historical time axis, the breadth of the geographical spaceaxis, and the diversity of themes covered as the features of global history (Tsukasa
Mizushima, Introduction to Global History (in Japanese), Yamakawa Shuppansha,2006). For example, an approach that treats humans as one element in the global
environment covers long-term historical change (previously the subject of archeology
from the birth of prehistoric humans), the characteristics and evolution of humans as aspecies, and the emergence of agriculture through to the development of agriculturalcivilization. Then, in addition to Western developed countries, colonies and emerging
countries are identified as dynamic actors, and continental areas such as Eurasia, Northand South America, Africa, and Australia, and maritime areas such as the Pacific Ocean,Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean are analyzed. There are also diverse research themes,
including the production, distribution, and consumption of global commodities,
including sugar, coffee, tea, tobacco, silver, and cotton goods; the propagation ofepidemic and infectious diseases; change in the global environment; and comparisons ofliving standards and wages in each region.
66

The rising interest in the history of connections and comparative history in thedevelopment of global history can also be observed in the activities of theSocio-Economic History Society. In the preface to Studies in Socio-Economic History,
2002–2011: Collected Essays to Mark the 80th Anniversary of the Socio-EconomicHistory Society, Japan, Yuhikaku, 2012, Shinya SUGIYAMA (Keio University), Presidentof the Society at the time, observed a trend among the papers and book reviews
published in the academic journal since the beginning of the 21st century. He noted thatresearch areas had shifted from Europe and the United States to Asia, including Japan,China, and India, and that the research periods had shifted from the pre-modern andmodern to the inter-World War and post-World War Ⅱ periods. In light of these changes,
the publication adopted organizations, humans and the environment, and space andnetworks as its three major frameworks for organizing research trends.
The special lectures at SEHC annual meeting in 2015 (Juro TERANISHI,
Hitotsubashi University, “Economic Activities and Religions: An Approach from theHistorical Comparison of Britain and Japan”, Waseda University, May 30th, 2015) andin 2016 (Nak-Nyeon KIM, Dongguk University, “Economic Development of Korea:
Long-Term Trends and International Comparisons”, Hokkaido University, June 11th,2016) also reflected those keen interests in the global comparison of economies andsocieties beyond the conventional west/east dichotomy.
Rising interest in historical narrative on a global scale is also closely connected tothe development of international research networks. Here, the 17th World Economic
History Congress held at the Kyoto International Conference Center from August 3–5,2015, has vital significance. The World Economic History Congress is an international
academic conference held every three years around the world by the International
Economic History Association (IEHA), which has 45 member academic societies fromover 40 countries. For over half a century of history since its launch in 1960, the World
Economic History Congress was held mainly in European countries. However, its
international reach has expanded, beginning with Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2002, andwas held in Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 2012. The World Congress held in Kyoto in2015 was the first in Asia, and was memorable. At the World Congress in Kyoto, inaddition to three plenary sessions and 178 parallel sessions, there were poster anddissertation sessions, which formed a doctoral dissertation competition. Here, 1,202
researchers took part in the sessions, with the number of participants exceeding 1,300, if
partners are included. Considering the number of participating researchers by country,
Japan accounted for the largest number with 294 researchers. In other words, 908
researchers, or 76% of the total participants, were from outside Japan. Countries with a67

large number of participants included the United States (143), the United Kingdom(101), China (91), France (56), the Netherlands (56), and Spain (53). It is noteworthy
that in addition to the major Western countries that have traditionally played a central
role in global economic history research, the World Congress gained many participantsfrom China.
“Diversity of Development” was established as the common theme for the WorldCongress. As pointed out by Tetsuji OKAZAKI (The University of Tokyo), who served as
Chair of the Local Organizing Committee, 19th century Japan achieved the first modern
economic development in Asia, and its post-war economic growth also presented a newdevelopment model. Subsequently, as economic growth continued in the Asia NIEs andBRICS, and it emerged that modern industrialization is not a phenomenon specific toWestern countries. Thus, it became necessary to re-examine existing theories byunraveling diverse development paths against a background of various economic andsocial cultures. As a result, the Executive Committee of the International Economic
History Association that selects the sessions was not bound to the theme determined by
the Local Organizing Committee. Nevertheless, because the theme overlapped with theissues of interest shared by many researchers in recent years, amid the progression inglobalization, many of the sessions at the World Congress compared diversity betweentimes and regions.
Three plenary sessions connected to the common theme were also held at theWorld Congress. In his Keynote Lecture for the first session on the opening day of theWorld Congress, Osamu SAITO (Hitotsubashi University) compared the long-termchanges in the occupational structure of industry in Europe and Japan in the 18th–20thcenturies. In addition, he considered the mechanisms of change based on theInternational Network for the Comparative History of Occupational Structure project, inwhich he plays a central role. His observations were that the conventional pattern ofoccupational structure change, known as the Petty-Clark Law, is not necessarily general.
Instead, the share of industrial workers did not increase in many countries during theIndustrial Revolution, including the United Kingdom and Japan. Furthermore, while theshare of industrial workers did increase overall during the Industrial Revolution, thedecline in the share of agricultural workers was not as rapid. Thus, as perspectives tounderstand this phenomenon, he raised the relationship between the labor-saving effectof machinery and the labor demand of the machine industry (the problem of Ricardo’smachine theory), the technology bias in industry and in industry linkages, and long-termchanges in agricultural labor demand.
In the second session on the third day, Professor Pranab BARDHAN (University of68

California, Berkeley) and Professor R. Bin WONG (University of California, LosAngeles) focused on two of the world’s largest economies — China and India — fromthe perspectives of economic history and development economics. The debates
examined the development experiences, including institutional forms, governancepatterns, and their impact on contemporary development experience not only fromnational but also from regional, global and historical perspectives. Professor PranabBardhan, speaking from the perspective of development economics, contrasted theentrepreneurial, rentier and state capitalist patterns of development in China and India
with special focus on labor-intensive production in the agriculture and manufacturingsectors, infrastructural considerations, property rights and governance issues. Professor
R. Bin Wong, approaching the same issues from a long-term historical perspective ofChina, examined patterns of change stressing the role of socially constructed institutions
that shaped production and exchange and their encounters with government policies.
The third session on the final day invited Professor Abhijit BANNERJEE(Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Professor Avner GREIF (Stanford University),and Professor Nicholas CRAFTS (Warwick University), three researchers who haveplayed a leading role in the fields of economic history and development economics, to aroundtable discussion. Both Professor Banerjee and Professor Greif emphasized theneed to relativize historical determinism, or the “Tyranny of History,” while assumingthat history plays a major role in economic development. In other words, Professor
Bannerjee empirically and theoretically criticized the view in development economics
that politics and culture are determined historically and cannot be changed by policy or
artificial means, and stressed the effectiveness of policy recommendations with regard
to institutions, culture, and politics. Based on observations of European and Chinese
history, Professor Greif emphasized that social organizations that enable people tocooperate are key to economic development. In addition, he stressed the importance offocusing on social organizations and understanding economic development as asustained process, rather than a one-off event. On the other hand, Professor Crafts
focused on the theories of New Economic Geography and Directed Technical Change as
theoretical frameworks to explain the significant diversity and heterogeneity seen in
economic development around the world. Here, he demonstrated the effectiveness ofeach framework using modern European data, and proposed integrating the twotheoretical frameworks as a task for future research.
The Socio-Economic History Society was actively involved, contributing to the17th World Economic History Congress and providing information at the Society’s
annual meeting and on its website, encouraging its members to participate. This is69

because international interaction and dissemination of information in other countries has
been positioned as one of the main activities of the Society, which has responded byestablishing a committee to oversee this process. As part of this, since 2015, the Society
has promoted the Springer publication, Monograph Series of the Socio-Economic
History Society, Japan, along with papers and book reviews from the Society’s journal,translated into English and edited. To date, four volumes have been published, both ase-books and in printed form: Volume 1: Economic History of Energy and Environment,ed. Shinya SUGIYAMA, Springer 2015; Volume 2: Micro-Performance During Postwar
Japan’s High Growth Era, ed. Haruhito TAKEDA, Springer 2016; Volume 3: EconomicActivities Under the Japanese Colonial Empire, ed. Minoru SAWAI, Springer, 2016; andVolume 4: Economic History of Cities and Housing, ed. Satoshi BABA, Springer, 2017.
The publication of a further two volumes is planned.
Alongside international academic interaction, fostering young researchers has
become a central part of the Society’s activities in recent years. At the time of the 17th
World Economic History Congress, the Society provided funding assistance for young
members making reports, and has established a similar assistance program for the 18thWorld Congress to be held in Boston in 2018. Moreover, since 2011, the Society has
held the annual SEHS Next Tide Workshop, providing an opportunity for young
researchers to engage in discussion and interact beyond the boundaries of the areas anderas of their research.
By effectively combining the Society’s core activities, namely, the presentationand discussion of research at the annual meeting and in the academic journal, with suchinternational interaction and the fostering of young researchers, it is hoped that theSociety and its members will make an even greater international academic contribution.
(Tomoko SHIROYAMA, Graduate School of Economics,
The University of Tokyo)

70THE JAPAN SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE OF ACCOUNTING
会計理論学会・Established: 1986
・Number of Members: individual 162
・Representative: Hiroshi YOSHIMI (Hokkaido University)
・Publication: Annals of The Japan Society for Social Science of Accounting
・The Japan Society for Social Science of Accounting
c/o Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University,
Kita 9, Nishi7, Kita-ku,
Sapporo 060-0809, Japan
http://www.jsssa-net.org
The next annual meeting will be held in fall, 2018.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTOTY SOCIETY
社会経済史学会
・Established: 1930
・Number of Members: 1,400
・Representative: Satoshi BABA (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://sehs.ssoj.info/
The next annual meeting will be held at Osaka University on May 27-28, 2018.

THE JAPAN STATISTICAL SOCIETY
一般社団法人 日本統計学会
・Established: 1931
・Number of Members: 1,507
・President: Masafumi AKAHIRA (University of Tsukuba)
・Publication: Journal of the Japan Statistical Society ― 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 Waseda University on March 4, 2018.
The next annual meeting will be held at Chuo University in September, 2018.

90