KASUYA, Makoto
Name / Position
KASUYA, Makoto / Professor
Website
kasuya@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 1992 | Ph.D in Economics (University of Tokyo) |
| 1984 | BA in Economics (University of Tokyo) |
Professional Experience
| 2006 | Professor of Business History at the Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo |
| 1998 | Associate Professor of Business History at the Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo |
| 1992 | Assistant Professor of Economic History at the School of Economics, Nagoya University |
| 1989 | Research Associate at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo |
Research Field
Japanese Business History
Research Theme
First, I have analyzed how modern companies emerged in Japan. I have studied the case of Mitsui & Co., one of the oldest trading companies in Japan, and the case of Mitsui Bank, one of the oldest banks in Japan. I made it clear how the trading know-how was formed in Mitsui & Co. and how the Mitsui Bank evolved from a ryogae-sho (feudal financier) to a modern bank that accepted deposits from the public. In addition to business activities, I studied how employment and promotion changed in these companies. Secondly, I analyzed development of the real estate industry in Japan.
Publications
Articles
- Makoto kasuya, “Japanese International Banking”, in Takeshi Nishimura and Ayumu Sugawara eds., The Development of International Banking in Asia, Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2020, 285-308.
- Makoto Kasuya, “Japanese Banks in Chinese Settlements before the Second World War”, The Journal of Northeast Asian History, Vol. 13, No. 1, Summer 2016, pp. 107-141.
- Makoto Kasuya, “Avoiding Excessive Risks and Investing in Inimitable Competence in the International and Securities Businesses,” in Michael Lescure ed., Immortal Banks: Strategies, Structures and Performances of Major Banks. Geneve: Librairie Droz,2016, pp. 49-70.
- Hannah Leslie and Makoto Kasuya, “Twentieth-Century Enterprise Forms: Japan in Comparative Perspective,” Enterprise and Society 17/1, March 2016, pp. 80-115.
- Makoto Kasuya, “The overseas expansion of Japanese banks, 1880-2006,” in Shizuya Nishimura, Toshio Suzuki, and Ranald. C. Michie (eds.), The Origins of International Banking in Asia: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 166-173.
- Makoto Kasuya, “The activities of Japanese banks in interwar financial centers: the cases of the Yokohama Specie Bank’s offices in London and New York,” in Shizuya Nishimura, Toshio Suzuki, and Ranald. C. Michie (eds.), The Origins of International Banking in Asia: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 196-216.
- Makoto Kasuya, “Bond Markets and Banks in Inter-war Japan,” Business History, Vol. 51, No. 6, November, 2009, pp. 907-926.
- Nanjo, Takashi and Makoto Kasuya, “Part-Paid Stock, Corporate Finance, and Investment: Economic Consequences of the Part-Paid Stock System and Supplementary Installments in Early 1930s Japan,” Monetary and Economic Studies, Vol. 27, November 2009, pp. 219-246.
- Makoto Kasuya, “Continuity and Change in the Employment and Promotion of Japanese White-Collar Employees: The Case of the House of Mitsui,” Enterprise & Society, 6/2, June 2005, 224-253.
- Makoto Kasuya, “Introduction” in Makoto Kasuya (ed.) Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 1-18.
- Makoto Kasuya, “Securities Markets and a Securities Company in Interwar Japan: the Case of Yamaichi” in Makoto Kasuya (ed.) Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 200-26.
- Makoto Kasuya, “The Business Activities of Mitsui & Co.’s London Branch, 1879-1896,” Japanese Yearbook on Business History Vol. 17, March 2001, 67-87.
Books and Monographs
- Makoto Kasuya (ed.) Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003).