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HIRAKAWA, Hitoshi

Research interest

Industrialization and economic growth of East Asia and the wave of newly regional integration are mainly analyzed from the framework of the world economy. From the historical point of view, present industrialization of East Asia is considered to be a new type. It might be also necessary to understand the 1997 Asian currency and economic crisis , and the movement of free trade agreements.

Seminar (C) outline [subject name : Economic Structure]

It is considered the mechanism of economic development in East Asia centered on Asian NIES in the first half, and to understand the substance of Asian currency and economic crisis, and subsequent regional cooperation and a motion of free trade agreement in the second half.

Profile

  • 1980: Completed Doctoral Course of Graduate School of Management, Meiji University.
  • 1996: Doctor of Economics (Kyoto University).
  • 1980: Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Nagasaki Prefectural University of International Economics.
    Associate professor.
    Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ibaraki University.
    Professor, School of Economics, Tokyo Keizai University.
  • 2000: Professor, Economic Research Center, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University.

Publications

Main work :
  • Perspective of Asian New Industrialization, (edited by S. Okumura) University of Tokyo Press, 1987 (in Japanese).
  • International Migration of Labor, (edited by K. Morita) University of Tokyo Press, 1987 (in Japanese).
  • NIES: The World System and Development, Dobunkan Publishing, 1992 (in Japanese)
  • "Lecture of Democratization and Economic Development in Modern Asia 3," Democratization and Economic Development," (edited by N. Hagiwara) University of Tokyo Press, 1994 (in Japanese).
  • International Labor Migration and Foreign Workers, (edited by K. Morita) Dobunkan Publishing, 1994 (in Japanese).
  • Asia NIEs: The Turning Point of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, (edited by H. Hirakawa and Park IL) 1994 (in Japanese).
  • World Economy, (edited by K. Morita) Minerva Shobo, 1995 (in Japanese).
  • Industrial Dynamism in East Asia, (edited by S. Kasuya) The Hosei University Press, 1997 (in Japanese).
  • Karayuki-san and Economic Advance: The historical relationship of Singapore-Japan in the World Economy, (Collaboration with Shimizu, H.) Commons, 1998 (in Japanese).
  • Political Economy of the 4th-generation Industrialization,(Collaboration with Sato, M.) Shinhyoron, 1998 (in Japanese).
  • Japan and Singapore in the World Economy: Japan's Economic Advance into Singapore 1870-1965, (Collaboration with D. Phil.Shimizu), London and New York: Routledge, 1999.
  • Introduction to China Economy, (edited by Minami, R. and F. Makino) Nippon Hyoron-Sha, 2001 (in Japanese).
  • New East Asian Economy (co-edited by H.Hirakawa and K.Ishikawa) Minerva Shobo, 2001 (in Japanese).
  • "East Asia's Currency and Economic Crisis and the Development of Regional Cooperation," Economic Research Center Discussion Paper No.130, ERC, Nagoya University, and November 2001.
  • Iwanami Lecture Southeast Asian History 9; "Development" Era and "Grope" Era, (edited by A. Suehiro) Iwanami, 2002 (in Japanese).
  • Local Development of the 21st Century Northeast Asia, (Uno, S. and Y. Masuda ed.) Nippon Hyoron-Sha, 2002 (in Japanese).
  • "Japanese Foreign Direct Investment into Asia and its Role in Asian Industrialization," (edited by J.T. Lindblad), Asian Growth and Foreign Capital, Amsterdam: Aksant, 2002.
  • The Asian Economy after a Currency Crisis and a Perspective for Reform (edited by H.Hirakawa and T. Sato), Nihon Tosyo Center, 2003 (in Japanese).
  • Development Economics of Anti-globalism, (co-edited by M. Noguchi, H. Hirakawa and M. Sano), Nippon Hyoron-Sha., 2003 (in Japanese).
  • Co-design for a New East after Crisis, (co-edited by H. Hirakawa and Y. H. Kim), Tokyo and Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2004

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