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

  • Industrial Policies of China: Striving for Leadership, Nagoya University Press, February 2025, iv+394 pages.
  • "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
Komaba campus, The University of Tokyo All-University Independent Research Seminar, "Seminar on Contemporary China" 
Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University Chinese Economy
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