Last update 2 April 2008



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S. Sugiyama


Japanese page






Re-creation and Preservation of a Former Coal-mining Town in Hokkaido
using pioneering Three-Dimensional Computer Graphic Technology

English Summary of the Project

English Outlines of My Lectures now on the Web!Keio OpenCourseWare
An Extract from one of My Lectures in Japanese is available online. (Mac/Windows)




Current position:Professor, Department of Economics, Keio University, and
Director, Keio University Libraries, Tokyo


Major research fields:Economic history of Japan and Asia from the seventeenth century onwards

Teaching:Economic history of Japan;Introduction to economic history;Research seminars

Education and employment:
BA in Economics,Waseda University,1972
MA in Economics,Waseda University,1975
Ph.D. in History,University of London,1981
Research Officer,London School of Economics,1981〜84
Associate Professor,Department of Economics,Keio University,1984〜91
Professor,Department of Economics,Keio University,1991 onwards
Director, Information Technology Center, Keio University, 2001〜2005
Director, Keio University Library, 2005 onwards




Publications:BooksArticles

Recent English Publications
 'From firewood to coal: deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in modern Japan',
in Makoto Yano ed., The Japanese economy: a market quality perspective (Keio University Press,2008)

 'Singapore', in John J. McCusker (ed), Economic history of world trade (Macmillan, 2005)
 'Thomas B. Glover', in Oxford dictionary of national biography (Oxford University Press, 2004)
 Janet Hunter and S.Sugiyama (eds), The history of Anglo-Japanese relations, 1600〜2000
volume 4:economic and business relations(London:Palgrave,December 2001)

 S. Sugiyama and Linda Grove (eds), Commercial networks in modern Asia(Richmond, Surrey:Curzon Press, 2001)



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