Publications and Working Papers in English (Some papers are downloadable.)
Papers and Short Articles
Industrial Groups and Division of Labor in China's Automobile Industry, Developing Economies, Vol. XXXIII No.3, Sept. 1995
"Recent trends of China's automotive industry" IIES Seminar Series 9611.
The Contradictions of Enterprise Groups: A Case Study of the FAW Group,
China Perspectives, No. 23, May-June 1999.
China's entry into the WTO and Japan, Focus Japan (JETRO), Vol.28, No.11, 2002. pp.10-11
The Supplier Network in China’s Automobile Industry From a Geographic Perspective, Modern Asian Studies Review, Vol.1, No.1 (March, 2006) pp.77-102.
"Is Japan Ready for Economic Integration with China?"Social Science Japan, No.38, March 2008.
"The Emergence of Industrial Clusters in Wenzhou, China" Shakai kagaku kenkyu (Social Science Research), Vol.60, No.1, January 2009. pp. 141-158
”Behind the Scenes in China, the Factory of
the World” Tansei (English version) No.8, March 2009, p.26.
“Why Japanese multinationals failed in the Chinese mobile phone market:
a comparative study of new product development in Japan and China” Asia Pacific Business Review, Vol.15, No.3 July 2009, pp.411-431.
Book Chapters
China: Dismantling and Restructuring the Industrial Structure, in Kayoko Kitamura, Tsuneo Tanaka eds. Examining Asia's Tigers --Nine Economies Challenging Common Structural
Problems, July 1997, Institute of Developing Economies.
Viet Nam's General Corporations: their outline and a comparison with Chinese
industrial groups, in Follow-up Study for the Economic Development Policy in the Transition toward
a Market-oriented Economy in Viet Nam, Vol.1, General Commentary/ Industry
and Trade, Japan International Cooperation Agency and MPI, Viet Nam, Dec. 1999.
WTO, Industrial Policy and China's Industrial Development, in Ippei Yamazawa
and Ken-ichi Imai, eds., China Enters WTO: Pursuing Symbiosis with the Global Economy, Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO, 2001.
The Chinese Television Industry: an example of gradual transition, in Jiang Xiaojuan ed., China's Industries in Transition: Organizational Change, Efficiency Gains,
and Growth Dynamics, Nova Science Publishers, 2001.
“General Corporations and State-Owned Enterprise Reform in Viet Nam” Ministry
of Planning and Investment, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Study on Economic Development Policy in The Transition toward a Market-Oriented
Economy in The Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (Phase 3): Final Report Vol.5
State-Owned Enterprise Reform and Private Sector Promotion, March 2001 pp.133-158.
"Japanese FDI and China's Industrial Development in the Automobile,
Electronics and Textile Industries," Hanns Gunther Hilpert and Rene
Haak eds. Japan and China: Cooperation, competition and conflict. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2002. pp.174-193.
Towards a Strategic Realignment of Production Networks--Japanese Electronics
Companies in China in Rene Haak and Dennis S. Tachiki eds. Regional Strategies in a Global Economy--Multinational Corporations in
East Asia, Indicium Verlag 2004. pp.99-118
Evolutionary Privatization in China, in Costas Lapavistsas and Makoto Noguchi
eds. Beyond Market-driven Development: Drawing On The Experience Of Asia And
Latin America (Routledge Studies in Development Economics), Abingdon, Routledge, 2005.
pp136-149.
“Regionalism and Nationalism in Mobile
Communications: A Comparison of East Asia and Europe” in Tamio Nakamura ed. The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism in Comparative Perspective. Comparative
Regionalism Project No.2 Institute of Social Science Research Series No.24, University of Tokyo,
February 2007, pp. 103-118.
"East Asian Regional Integration: An Introduction" Tamio Nakamura
ed. Future East Asian Regionalism: Proposal for an East Asian Charter, CREP International Symposium 2007 Proceedings. ISS Research Series No.28,
Institute of Social Science, February 2008, pp.12-26.
“A Comparison of Chinese and Indian Automobile
Manufacturers,” Ohara, Moriki, ed. 2009. Comparative Study on Industrial Development Process in China and India.
Interim Report. Chiba: Institute of Developing Economies.
The Emergence of Industrial Clusters in Wenzhou, China” in Bernard Ganne and Yveline Lecler eds. Asian Industrial Clusters, Global Competitiveness and New Policy Initiatives, World Scientific, Singapore, 2009, pp.213-237.
“Regionalism and nationalism in the
information technology industry: A comparison of East Asia and
Why Japanese multinationals failed in the Chinese mobile phone market: a
comparative study of new product development in
“On the Motive of Chinese Firms’ Multinationalization” in Hideki Esho and PengXu eds. International Competitiveness, Globalization and Multinationalization of Firms: A Comparison of China and India, Proceedings, Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University, March 2010, pp.54-65.
"Vertical Disintegration versus Vertical Integration: Some Reflections
on the Rise of Chinese Household Electronics Industry" in Tetsuo Abo
ed. Competing Chinese and Foreign Firms in Swelling Chinese Economy, LIT Verlag,
"Technology Acquisition by Indigenous Firms: The Case of the Chinese
and Indian Automobile Industries" in Moriki Ohara, M. Vijayabaskar,
and Hong Lin eds. Industrial Dynamics in China and India: Firms, Clusters, and Different
Growth Paths. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 63-79.
Unpublished Working Papers
Regionalism and Business Paper presented at the comparative regionalism project at the University of Tokyo
Marketing and Social Network in Inland China Paper Presented at the Kobe University - Sichuan Academy of Social Science Conference on the Development of Inland China, September 2004
Chinese Innovations in Mobile Communications: Third Generation vs. "Guerrilla
Handsets" Paper presented at the Conference on Chinese Approaches to National
Innovation. University of California, San Diego, June 2010
The Transfer of Cutlery Industry from Japan to China: What is left behind in Japan? What is happening in China? Paper presented at the ADB-NDRC Evaluation Workshop on General Strategy and Policies for Promoting Industrial Transfer in the PRC, September 2010.
Book Reviews
China's Exports since 1979 by Hong Wang, The Developing Economies, Vol XXXII, Number 1, March 1994.
Chinese Business Groups: The Structure and Impact of Interfirm Relationsduring
Economic Development, by Lisa A. Keister, The China Journal, No.47. January 2002.pp.150-152.
Haruto Shiomi ed. The Chinese Automobile Industry in Transition,China Information Vol.XVI, No.2, 2002.
Chugoku Nihon no Jidosha Sangyo Sapuraiya Shisutemu (The Parts Supplier Networks of the Chinese and Japanese Automobile Industries)
Social Science Japan Journal. 2011.