ISS: Research Staff: MARUKAWA, Tomoo

Institute of Social Science The University of Tokyo

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MARUKAWA, Tomoo

Division Department of Comparative Contemporary Societies 　
Research Fields Chinese Economy
E-mail

marukawaiss.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Teaching and Research Appointments

April 2007 − Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
November 2005 −December 2005 Visiting Scholar, Institut d'Asie Orientale, CNRS, France
April 2001 −March 2007 Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo

Topics of Research

1Chinese Economy
I am interested in the latest developments, new industries, and industrial policies, as well as historical changes in the Chinese economy.

2Sino-Japanese Relations
I am interested in the economic, political, and emotional relationships between Japan and China.

3Automotive and electronics industries
I am following the global trends of these industries to have a deeper understanding of their current status in China.

Selected Publications

  • "How can the value added of Vietnam’s export industries be increased?" (with H. Nakamura), The Japanese Political Economy 2024, pp.1-21
  • （徐一睿, 穆尭芊と共編）『高所得時代の中国経済を読み解く』東京大学出版会，2022年12月，228頁
  • "From Entrepreneur to Investor: China’s Semiconductor Industrial Policies", Issues & Studies, Vol.59, No.1, March 2023
  • "Chinese Societies During the Mao Era: Work and Life in the 'Shanghai Small Third Front'" Katsuji Nakagane ed. Studies on the Chinese Economy During the Mao Era, Springer, January 2023, pp. 229-248
  • “The demand for and supply of elderly care in Japan”, The Japanese Political Economy, Vol.48，No.1，March 2022，pp.8-26．
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2329194X.2022.2039070
  • “Dependence and competition: trade relationship between Asian countries and China”，Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies，Vol.10，No.2，July 2021，pp.246-261．
  • Contemporary Chinese Economy, New Edition, Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2021
  • (Co-authored with Li Haixun, Xu Yirui, Tadashi Kono) Political Economy of Tobacco Industry: Global Development and the Current Status of China, Kyoto: Showado, 2021
  • “The evolution of China’s industrial policy and ‘Made in China 2025’”, in Arthur Ding and Jagannath Panda eds. Chinese Politics and Foreign Policy under Xi Jinping: The Future of Political Trajectory, Routledge, 2020, pp.131-149
  • “Export restrictions in the Japan-China-U.S. Trilateral relationship”, The Japanese Political Economy, No.2-3, pp. 152-175, 2020
  • “Sharing Economy in China and Japan” The Japanese Political Economy, Vol.43, No.1-4, pp.61-78, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1080/2329194X.2018.1555666
  • “ 'Catch-Down' Innovation in Developing Countries”. in Yukihito Sato, Hajime Sato ed. Varieties and Alternatives of Catching-up: Asian Development in the Context of the 21st Century. London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016, pp.183-210. DOI 10.1057.978-1-137-59780-9_7
  • “Regional unemployment disparities in China” Economic Systems Vol.41, No.2, pp.203-214.May 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2016.11.002
  • “The Economic Nexus between China and Emerging Economies” Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies. Vol.6, No.1, pp.29-41, April 2017.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24761028.2017.1312755
  • “Will China Continue to be a 'State Capitalism'?” 『Journal of Chinese Economic Studies』（Japanese Association for Chinese Economy and Management Studies）Vol.12, No.1,pp.1-11.
  • “The "make or buy" decision and supply-chain governance”, in Mariko Watanabe ed. The Disintegration of Production: Firm Strategy and Industrial Development in China, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014. pp.51-73.
  • “Diminishing Returns to High-Tech Standards Wars: China's Strategies in Mobile Communications Technology”, National Bureau of Asian Research Working Paper, August 2014, pp.1-20.
  • Lectures on Contemporary China for Citizens, (co-edited with Akio Takahara and Asei Ito)(in Japanese), Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2014.
  • China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment Data (Co-edited with Asei Ito and Yongqi Zhang), ISS Contemporary Chinese Research Series No. 15, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, March 2014.
  • “Japan's High-Technology Trade with China and Its Export Control” Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol.13, No.3. 2013, pp.483-502.
  • “Why are There So Many Automobile Manufacturers in China?” China: An International Journal, Vol.11, No.2, 2013, pp.170-185.
  • Contemporary Chinese Economy (in Japanese), Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2013.
  • Chinese Dream: China's Mass Capitalism will Change the World (in Japanese), Tokyo: Chikuma, 2013.
  • “Bilateral Trade and Trade Frictions between China and Japan, 1972-2012” Eurasian Geography and Economics, Vol.53, No.4, 2012, pp.442-456.
  • The History of Sino-Japanese Relations 1972-2012: Economic Relations (co-edited with Kenji Hattori, in Japanese), University of Tokyo Press, 2012.
  • “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, Oct. 2011, pp. 63-79.
  • “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, Berlin, 2010, pp. 197-212.
  • “Regionalism and nationalism in the information technology industry: A comparison of East Asia and Europe” in Tamio Nakamura ed. East Asian Regionalism from a Legal Perspective, Current features and a vision for the future, Routledge, Abington, 2009, pp.25-42.
  • “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.
  • Can We Live without ‘Made in China’? The Truth of Sino-Japanese Trade Relations (in Japanese), PHP, November 2009.
  • “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.
  • Contemporary Chinese Industries: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Rising Chinese Firms (in Japanese), Chuo Koron, May 2007.
  • “The Supplier Network in China's Automobile Industry From a Geographic Perspective”, Modern Asian Studies Review, 1(1), March 2006, pp.77-102.
  • “Evolutionary Privatization in China”, 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, September 2005, pp.136-149.
  • “Towards a Strategic Realignment of Production Networks: Japanese Electronics Companies in China”, Rene Haak and Dennis S. Tachiki (eds.), Regional Strategies in a Global Economy: Multinational Corporations in East Asia, Indicium Verlag, 2004, pp.99-118.
  • Tectonic Shifts in China's Labor Market (in Japanese), Nagoya University Press, Nov. 2002.　（Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize）
  • “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, April 2002, pp.174-193.
  • “The Chinese Television Industry: an example of gradual transition”, Jiang Xiaojuan (ed.), China’s Industries in Transition: Organizational Change, Efficiency Gains, and Growth Dynamics, Nova Science Publishers, 2001, pp.57-81.
  • “The Contradictions of Enterprise Groups: A Case Study of the FAW Group”, China Perspectives, 23, French Center for Research on Contemporary China, May-June 1999, pp.18-26.
  • The Dynamics of Market Development: Chinese Economy in Transition (in Japanese) IDE-JETRO, April 1999.
  • “Industrial Groups and Division of Labor in China's Automobile Industry”, The Developing Economies, 33(3), Institute of Developing Economies, September 1995, pp.330-355.

Educational Activities

Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo Chinese Economy
Graduate School of Economics/Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo World Economy I/Advanced World Economy I
Graduate School of Economics/Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo World Economy II/Advanced World Economy II
Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo Area Studies Workshop I, II
School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo Political Economics
Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University Chinese Economy
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