Kenmei TSUBOTA

1. Employment

04, 2026 -   Professor, Department of International Economics, Faculty of Economics, Hosei University

　　　　　　　　　法政大学　経済学部　国際経済学科　教授

06, 2021 -   Non-Resident Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization

　　　　　　　　　日本貿易振興機構・アジア経済研究所　連携研究員

04, 2026 -                    Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Global and Regional Studies, Toyo University

                                     東洋大学大学院, 国際学研究科, 客員教授

04, 2021 - 03, 2026 Professor, Department of Regional Development Studies, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Toyo University

05, 2021 - 03, 2026  Researcher, Center for Sustainable Development Studies, Toyo University

04, 2020 - 03, 2021 Associate Professor, Department of Regional Development Studies, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, Toyo University

04, 2010 - 03, 2020  Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization

04, 2009 - 03, 2010  Researcher, The Research Center for Advanced Policy Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University,

Visiting positions

10, 2015 - 10, 2016  Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

08, 2016 - 08, 2016  Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Employment Research, German Federal Employment Agency

10, 2014 - 10, 2015  Visiting Research Fellow, King’s India Institute, King’s College London

2. Education

03, 2012             Ph.D., Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

01, 2008 - 01, 2009  Visiting Doctoral Student, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université catholique de Louvain

03, 2005             M.A., Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University

03, 2002             B.A., Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University

3. Publications

3.1. Papers in peer-reviewed journals

In English

1. Sera, Daiki, Kenmei Tsubota, and Yujiro Wada. 2026. "The Impact of Russia-Ukraine War in Maritime Data." The World Economy, forthcoming.

2. Keola, Souknilanh, Kazuhiro Kumo, Kenmei Tsubota, and Akira Ueda. 2024. "Bright Lights of Cities: Reassessing Siberian Curse through the Lens of Nighttime Lights." Regional Research of Russia, 14 (3): 458–467.

3. Hayashi, Tadateru, Satoru Kumagai, Sanchita Basu Das, Manbar Singh Khadka, Ikumo Isono, Souknilanh Keola, Kenmei Tsubota, and Kazunobu Hayakawa. 2023. "Analysis of the Economic Impact of Improved Connectivity in Nepal." Journal of Asian Economic Integration, 5 (2): 145-166. 

4. Hossain, Monzur, Naoyuki Yoshino, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2023. "Sustainable Financing Strategies for the SMEs: Two Alternative Models." Sustainability, 15 (11): 8488. 

5. Guerrero, David, Hidekazu Itoh, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2022. "Freight rates up and down the urban hierarchy." Research in Transportation Business & Management, 45 (Part A): 100775. 

6. Hayakawa, Kazunobu, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2022. "The Impact of Highways on Commodity Prices: The Price of Butter in Japan." Journal of Asian Economics, 81: 101503. 

7. Saito, Tomohiro, Ryuichi Shibasaki, Shinsuke Murakami, Takuma Matsuda, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2022. "Global Maritime Container Shipping Networks 1969–1981: Emergence of Container Shipping and Reopening of the Suez Canal." Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10 (5): 602. 

8. Shoji, Masahiro, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2022. "Sexual Exploitation of Trafficked Children: Survey Evidence from Child Sex Workers in Bangladesh." Journal of Comparative Economics, 50 (1): 101-117. 

9. Baek, Youngmin, Kazunobu Hayakawa, Kenmei Tsubota, Shujiro Urata, and Kenta Yamanouchi. 2021. "Tariff Pass-through in Wholesaling: Evidence from Firm-level Data in Japan." Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 62: 101164. 

10. Kumagai, Satoru, Toshitaka Gokan, Ikumo Isono, Kazunobu Hayakawa, Souknilanh Keola, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2021. "Economic Impacts of the US–China Trade War on the Asian Economy: An Applied Analysis of IDE-GSM." Journal of Asian Economic Integration, 3 (2): 127-143. 

11. Kawasaki, Yujiro, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2019. "Myopic or farsighted: Bilateral Trade Agreements among three symmetric countries." Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 12 (3): 233-256. 

12. Tanaka, Kiyoyasu, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2017. "Directional imbalance of freight rates: Evidence from Japanese inter-prefectural data." Journal of Economic Geography, 17 (1): 217-232. 

13. Hayakawa, Kazunobu, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2014. "Location Choice in Low-income Countries: Evidence from Japanese Investments in East Asia." Journal of Asian Economics, 33: 30-43. 

14. Kuroiwa, Ikuo, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2014. "Economic Integration, Location of Industries, and Frontier Regions: Evidence from Cambodia." Journal of Southeast Asian Economies, 31 (3): 379-394. 

15. Kumagai, Satoru, Kazunobu Hayakawa, Ikumo Isono, Souknilanh Keola, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2013. "Geographical Simulation Analysis for Logistics Enhancement in Asia." Economic Modelling, 34: 143-153.

16. Tanaka, Kiyoyasu, and Kenmei Tsubota. 2013. "Does Aid in Roads Attract Foreign or Domestic Firms? Evidence from Cambodia." Developing Economies, 51 (4): 388-401.

In Japanese

  1.  和田 祐次郎、 柴崎 隆一、 小坂 浩之、 渡部 大輔、 伊東 弘人、 坪田 建明、 荒谷 太郎、 泉山 卓、 岩佐 竜至 (2021) AIS等の船舶動静データの利用に関する研究レビューと今後の展望 」日本船舶海洋工学会論文集、34 巻、123-138.

  Wada,  Yujiro, Ryuichi Shibasaki, Hiroyuki Kosaka, Daisuke Watanabe, Hirohito Ito, Kenmei Tsubota, Taro Aratani, Taku Izumiyama,  and Ryuji Iwasa (2021) "Literature Review and Future Prospects on Vessel Movement Data Usage including AIS －Focusing on Logistics, Shipping, Shipbuilding, Environment, and Cruise Fields－," Journal of Marine Science and Technology, Vol. 34, pp123-138.

  2. 横田 正文、坪田 建明、林 健太 (2009)「まちづくり活動への参加意識及びその促進方策に関する考察－鳥取県倉吉市白壁土蔵群を例として－ 」日本都市学会年報.

   Yokota, Masafumi, Kenmei Tsubota, and Kenta Hayashi (2009)  "Preference for participation in community activities and encouraging measures: case study on Shirakabe-Dozogun in Kurayoshi City, Tottori Prefecture," Japan Society for Urbanology Annual Report, pp125-134.

  3.丸谷浩明、木下信、坪田建明（2007）「京町家証券化の出資者意向調査からみた保存再生ファイナンスのあり方の考察」日本不動産学会誌、pp87-97.

    Maruya, Hiroak, Shin Kinoshita, and Kenmei Tsubota (2007) "Study on Reservation/Renewal Finance Method Based on the Survey on the Investors for the Securitization Project of the Traditional Townhouses in Kyoto," The Japanese Journal of Real Estate Sciences, pp87-97.

3.2. Chapters in books

In English

1. Tsubota, Kenmei (2026) Shipping Networks of British India: 1841-1919, in Kaoru Sugihara (eds.) Studies in Indian Ocean Trade, c.1800-1950: Hubs, Hinterlands and Environmental Diversities, forthcoming.

2. Saito, Tomohiro, Kenmei Tsubota, Ryuichi Shibasaki, Cesar Ducruet (2026) Steamers and Sailings: Digitizing Global Shipping Networks in 1880, in Ryuichi Shibasaki (eds.) Maritime Big Data: Shipping and Logistics Analysis using Automatic Identification System Data, Taylar and Francis, forthcoming.

3. Tsubota, Kenmei, Hidekazu Itoh, and Cesar Ducruet (2026) Containerization and Semi-containerships in the Age of Globalization: Diverse Regional Trends, in Ryuichi Shibasaki (eds.) Maritime Big Data: Shipping and Logistics Analysis using Automatic Identification System Data, Taylar and Francis, forthcoming.

4. Tsubota, Kenmei, Hidekazu Itoh and Ryuichi Shibasaki (2026) Dynamics of shipping networks and port cities in East and Southeast Asia, in Cesar Ducruet and Daniel Castillo Hidalgo (eds.) Port Cities and Globalisation, Routledge.

5. Kumagai, Satoru, Kenmei Tsubota and Toshitaka Gokan (2021) Corridor Developments for Transforming Central Asia: A Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Model, in Dina Azhgaliyeva and Yelena Kalyuzhunova (eds.) Unlocking Transport Connectivity in the Trans-Caspian Corridor, Asian Development Bank Institute,  pp166-186.

6. Kumagai, Satoru and Kenmei Tsubota (2021) Economic Potential of Road Infrastructure Development in and around the North Eastern Region, in Mayumi Murayama, Sanjoy Hazarika, and Preeti Gill (eds) India's North-East and Japan: Engagement through Connectivity, Routledge India, pp100-125. 

7. Ducruet, Cesar, and Kenmei Tsubota (2020) Maritime Networks of Africa and Asia, in Ayodeji Olukoju and Daniel Castillo Hidalgo (eds)  African Seaports and Maritime Economics in Historical Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan, pp203-218. 

8. Satoru Kumagai, Ikumo Isono, Souknilanh Keola, Kazunobu Hayakawa, Toshitaka Gokan and Kenmei Tsubota (2019) China–Kyrgyzstan Railway Meets IDE–GSM, in Linggui Wang and Jianglin Zhao (eds) The Belt and Road Initiative in the Global Context, World Scientific, pp 89–97. 

9. Tsubota, Kenmei, Atiya Kidwai and Cesar Ducruet (2017) Partition, independence, and maritime networks in South Asia, in Cesar Ducruet (eds.) Advances in Shipping Data Analysis and Modeling: Tracking and Mapping Maritime Flows in the Age of Big Data, Routledge, pp415-431.  

10. Hatsukano, Naomi, Ikuo Kuroiwa and Kenmei Tsubota (2012) Economic Integration and Industry Location in Cambodia, in Ikuo Kuroiwa (eds.), Economic Integration and the Location of Industries: The Case of Less Developed East Asian Countries, Palgrave Macmillan.

11. Tsubota, Kenmei (2012) Disentangling agglomeration economies: institution, organization and network, PhD dissertation, Kyoto University.

In Japanese

1.  坪田建明 (2024) 経済活動を理解するためのフィールドワーク、東洋大学国際共生社会研究センター編『フィールドワークで世界を見る』.Tsubota, Kenmei (2024) "Fieldwork for Economic studies", Center for Sustainable Development Studies, Toyo University (eds.) Understanding the world through fieldworks.

2. 坪田建明 (2016) 「人身取引と経済学」、山田美和編『人身取引の学際的研究』アジア経済研究所、第二章.Tsubota, Kenmei (2016) "Economics and Human Trafficking", in Miwa Yamada (eds.), Interdisciplinary Studies of Human Trafficking, IDE-JETRO. 

3. 熊谷聡、早川和伸、ケオラ・スックニラン

4. 坪田建明、熊谷聡、早川和伸 (2015)「IDE-GSMで用いるデータ」、熊谷聡・磯野生茂編『経済地理シミュレーションモデル ——理論と応用—— 』アジア経済研究所、第四章. Tsubota, Kenmei, Satoru Kumagai and Kazunobu Hayakawa (2015) "Data for IDE-GSM" with Satoru Kumagai, Kazunobu Hayakawa, and Keola Souknilan in Satoru Kumagai and Ikumo Isono (eds.), Geographical Simulation model- Theory and Application-, IDE-JETRO.

5.  黒岩郁雄、坪田建明 (2014)「地域格差」、黒岩郁雄編『東アジア統合の経済学』日本評論社, 第十章. Kuroiwa, Ikuo and Kenmei Tsubota (2014) “Regional Disparity”, with Ikuo Kuroiwa in Ikuo Kuroiwa (eds.), Economics of East Asian Integration, Nihon Hyoron sha.

6. 坪田建明 (2014) 「ジュート」、村山真弓・山形辰史編『知られざる工業国：バングラデシュ』アジア経済研究所, 第一章. Tsubota, Kenmei (2014) “Jute” in Mayumi Murayama and Tatsufumi Yamagata (eds.), An unknown Industrial Country: Bangladesh, IDE-JETRO.

7. 坪田建明、村山真弓 (2014) 「革・革製品」、村山真弓・山形辰史編『知られざる工業国：バングラデシュ』アジア経済研究所, 第三章.  Tsubota, Kenmei, and Mayumi Murayama (2014) “Leather and leather products” with Mayumi Murayama, in Mayumi Murayama and Tatsufumi Yamagata (eds.), An unknown Industrial Country: Bangladesh, IDE-JETRO.

8. 坪田建明 (2014)「造船・船解体」、村山真弓・山形辰史編『知られざる工業国：バングラデシュ』アジア経済研究所, 第七章. Tsubota, Kenmei (2014) “Shipbuilding and breaking” in Mayumi Murayama and Tatsufumi Yamagata (eds.), An unknown Industrial Country: Bangladesh, IDE-JETRO 2014.

9. 坪田建明、アブ・ションチョイ (2014)「製造業統計」、村山真弓・山形辰史編『知られざる工業国：バングラデシュ』アジア経済研究所, 補論. Tsubota, Kenmei and Abu Shonchoy (2014) “Manufacturing Statistics” with Abu Shonchoy, in Mayumi Murayama and Tatsufumi Yamagata (eds.), An unknown Industrial Country: Bangladesh, IDE-JETRO.  

3.3. Discussion papers

   Discussion papers are available from the following link. https://ideas.repec.org/e/pts174.html 

4. Experiences

09/2024 - 06/2025    Short term consultant, ERIA (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia)

05/2020 - 10/2021    Short term consultant, Asian Development Bank 

09/2019 - 03/2020    Adjunct lecturer on International Economics and Development Economics, Toyo University

05/2019 - 12/2019    Short term consultant, Asian Development Bank

10/2019 - 11/2019     Adjunct lecturer on Geospatial data, United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific

04/2019 - 09/2019    Short term consultant, Asian Development Bank 

02/2019 - 02/2019     Adjunct lecturer on Geospatial data, United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific

11/2018 - 11/2018     Adjunct lecturer on Geospatial data, United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific

04/2018 -  03/2019    Adjunct lecturer on International Economics, Hosei University

03/2018 - 04/2018     Technical Advisor, Solomon Islands Government

04/2015 - 06/2015     Short term consultant, World Bank

01/2015 - 03/2015     Short term consultant, World Bank

05/2010 - 06/2010     Short term consultant, World Bank

5. Grants

04/2026 - 03/2029      Research Grant from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI)

04/2026- 03/2027       Research Grant from Express Highway Research Foundation of Japan (PI)

04/2025- 03/2026       Research Grant from Yamagata Maritime Institute (PI)

04/2024 - 03/2028      Research Grant from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI: Dr. Ryuichi Shibasaki)

04/2022 - 03/2026      Research Grant from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI)

04/2021 - 03/2024      Priority Research Promotion Program, Toyo University (PI: Dr. Tatsuro Goda)

04/2020 - 03/2024      Research Grant from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI: Dr. Ryuichi Shibasaki)

04/2020 - 03/2022    Bilateral Joint Research Grant between Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) (PI with Dr. Dibyendu Maiti)

04/2019 - 03/2022      Research Grant from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI: Dr. Kaoru Sugihara)

11/2018 - 03/2024      Research Grant from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (PI)

01/2008 - 01/2009     Scholarship for post-graduate studies in Belgium for Japanese students, Le Commissariat général aux Relations internationales de la Communauté française, Belgique

01/2009               Travel grant for conference presentation, Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique, Belgique

10/2008               Travel grant for conference presentation, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, UCL

07/2008               Travel grant for summer school, European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

6. Award

2021.  Toyo University Excellence in Educational Activities Award (東洋大学優秀教育活動賞)