Dr. Hitomi Hohri
JSPS Research Fellow(RPD) , School of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics, Institute of Science Tokyo
Email: hohri.h.aa[at]m.titech.ac.jp
ORCID: 0009-0001-4209-2930
Research Interest
My research investigates the economic history of interwar Japan, with a particular focus on industrial development and labor market dynamics. Beyond Japan, I am also interested in comparative economic institutions and the broader field of historical political economy.
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2021-2024.
Assistant Professor, College of Economics, Rikkyo University, 2018-2021
Research Associate, Department of Economics, Teikyo University, 2017-2018
Part-time Lecturer, Rikkyo University, 2017-2017
Part-time Lecturer, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2017-2017
Analyst, Economic Research Division, Mitsubishi Economic Research Institute, 2016-2017
Part-time Lecturer, Kanagawa University, 2015-2017
Research Fellow(DC1), JSPS, 2013-2016
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Tokyo, 2016
M.A., Economics, University of Tokyo, 2013
B.A., Economics, Kobe University, 2011
Publications in Refereed Journals (in Japanese)
"Firm Growth in Prewar Japan : A Case Study of the Long-lived Firm", Japan business history review 52(4), 3-29, 2018-03.
Conference Presentations (in English)
"The Economic Consequences of Exchange Rate Shocks: Labor Market and Productivity Effects in Japan’s Cotton Industry", European Historical Economics Society Conference, University of Hohenheim, September2025.
"The Impact of Industrial Growth on Regional Prosperity: The Case of Japan’s Textile Industry andPopulation Change in the 1930s", Economic History Society Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, April 2025.
"Creative Destructions in Interwar Japan: Evidence from the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 "(with Kota Ogasawara) , European Historical Economics Society Conference, University of Groningen, June 2022.