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Masanori Takashima

高島正憲

Current position

Associate ProfessorSchool of EconomicsKwansei Gakuin University関西学院大学経済学部准教授
Visiting Associate ProfessorInstitute of Economic ResearchHitotsubashi University一橋大学経済研究所客員准教授

Academic employment

2021–present: Associate Professor, School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University2023–present: Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University2019–2021: Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University2017–2019: Postdoctoral (PD) Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) / Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo2014–2017: Researcher, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University2013–2014: Research fellow, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University2011–2013: COE Research fellow, Hitotsubashi University2008–2011: COE Researcher, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University2003–2008: Archivist, Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan

Academic employment (Part-time lecturer)

2026–present: Lecturer, Hitotsubashi University, Undergraduate (Long-Term Economic Statistics of Japan and Data Analysis of the Japanese Economy, Faculty of Social Data Science)2025–present: Lecturer, Kyoto University, Undergraduate (Principles of Economics III [Economic Development], School of Agriculture)2018: Lecturer, Musashi University, Undergraduate (Comparative Economics, Faculty of Economics)2018: Lecturer, Tokai University, Undergraduate (Economic History, School of Political Science and Economics)2015: Lecturer, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Undergraduate (Japanese Economic History, School of Arts and Sciences)2003: Teaching Assistant, Osaka University, Undergraduate (Japanese Medieval History, School of Letters)

Education

2011–2014: Hitotsubashi University, Graduate School of Economics, Ph.D. in Economics (2016)2002–2006: Osaka University, Graduate School of Letters, degree not completed2000–2002: Osaka City University, Graduate School of Letters, M.A. in Letters (2002)1993–1997: Ritsumeikan University, College of Letters, B.A. in Letters (1997)

Research interests

Long-run Japanese economic growth from the ancient to the modern period as well as estimating various economic factors, such as population, production, wages and prices.Comparative economic development.Historical analysis of household economics using household account books (kakeibo).Pre-war farmer's society based on the survey of the farm household economy by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.Archives and historical database during and before the early modern period in Japan.

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reseachmap and Kwansei Gakuin University

I am Masanori Takashima, an associate professor, School of Economics at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan.
I graduated in History from Ritsumeikan University in 1997 (B.A.) and Osaka City University in 2002 (M.A.). I was an archivist at the Bank of Japan during 2003-2008. Although originally I trained as historian and archivist, my current research interest is quantitative economic history. After moving to Hitotsubashi University in 2008, I encountered economics and statistics. I started to explore another approach of historical study based on my previous background, and then I decided to enter a Graduate School of Economics at Hitotsubashi University.
My Ph.D. thesis considers very long-run Japanese economic development from the ancient to the modern period by estimating various economic factors, such as population, production, wages and prices. I defended my Ph.D. thesis in economics in October 2016 at Hitotsubashi University under the supervision of Yukinobu Kitamura, Chiaki Moriguchi, Osamu Saito, Kyoji Fukao, and Masahiro Sato. After getting the Ph.D, I worked at the University of Tokyo as a JSPS fellow between 2017 and 2019.
From April 2019, I started my new career at Kwansei Gakuin University, and now I am making explorations of Japanese economic history.

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