Asei ITO is an associate professor at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. He graduated from Graduate school of Economics, University of Keio, Japan and also studied at the People’s University of China, Beijing as well as Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou during his graduate course. His research covers the Chinese industrial development and related China’s outward FDI activities in Asia. He is the author of Industrial Clusters in Contemporary China: “The Workshop of the World” and A Bottom-up Economic Development (the University of Nagoya Press, 2015, in Japanese) and China Unmanned Aerial System Industry Report 2017: An emerging industry from an emerging economy (the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, in Japanese), and one of co-editors of China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment Data (University of Tokyo, 2014, in English) and Understanding Contemporary China: Lecture Series at the University of Tokyo (University of Tokyo Press, 2014, in Japanese).
Here is a recent output: The Asian Economy: Contemporary Issues and Challenges (Kenta Goto, Tamaki Endo, Asei Ito ed, forthcoming in 2020)
Here is an outreach post by the UTokyo: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/features/z1304_00076.html
ADRESS
Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 113-0033
Tel +81-3-5841-4756
Fax +81-3-5841-4905
asei[at]iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp
ACADEMIC POSITION
04/2009-03/2011
Encouraged Researcher, Faculty of Economics, KEIO University
04/2011-03/2012
Research Fellow, Japanese Society for Promotion of Science
04/2012-03/2015
Project Assistant Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Research Fellow, National Institute of Humanities, Japan
04/2015-03/2017
Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
04/2017-present
Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
EDUCATION
1) Degree
M.A. in Economics, Keio University, Japan (March 2009).
Master Thesis Title: Growth and Development of ‘Hub’ Industrial Cluster in China: The Case of Yiwu Commodity Market (in Japanese)
Ph.D. in Economics, Keio University, Japan (July 2014)
Dissertation Title: Industrial Clusters of ‘China as the Workshop of the World’ (in Japanese)
2) Oversea Research Activities
09/2006-08/2007 People’s University of China, Beijing, China.
02/2011-09/2011 Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
04/2017-03/2018 Shenzhen Univesity, China (Visiting Scholar at China Center for Special Economic Zone Studies).
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Chinese Economy
Industrial Clusters in China and Japan
FDI and economic relations between China and emerging economies
AWARD
Japan Academy of Small Business Studies, Award for Young Researcher (2011)
Tadao KIYONARI Memorial Prize (2016)
Masayoshi OHIRA Memorial Prize (2017)
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