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The State of Economic History in Japan

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  • Yutaka Arimoto

    (Metrics Work Consultants Inc. and Hitotsubashi University)

  • Tomoko Hashino

    (Graduate School of Economics,　Kobe University)

  • Masaki Nakabayashi

    (Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo)

  • Tetsuji Okazaki

    (The University of Tokyo and the Faculty of Economics, Meiji Gakuin University)

  • Osamu Saito

    (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)

  • Yoshihiro Sakane

    (The Faculty of Commercial Sciences, Hiroshima Shudo University)

  • Kaoru Sugihara

    (Research Institute for, Humanity and Nature)

Abstract

This paper surveys the changes in economic history research in Japan. In recent decades, the internationalization of research has progressed and the influence of economics and econometrics has increased, and related to these changes, more economic historians are working on new topics using new approaches. Japan’s economic history research was internationalized prior to World War II, but only in the sense that economic historians in Japan “imported†theoretical frameworks, concepts, and perspectives from the Western literature. In recent decades, the situation has changed. Economic historians in Japan, equipped with analytical tools from economics and econometrics, have generated new insights and “exported†them to the international academic community.

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  • Yutaka Arimoto & Tomoko Hashino & Masaki Nakabayashi & Tetsuji Okazaki & Osamu Saito & Yoshihiro Sakane & Kaoru Sugihara, 2024. "The State of Economic History in Japan," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-1231, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
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