Asuka YAMAGUCHI

Associate Professor

Education, Degree

Keio University, Graduate School of Economics, Ph.D., July 2011

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya City University, April 2014-March 2017
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya City University, April 2017-present

Research Fields

Economic History of Japan

Research Interests

natural resources, energy, industrialization

Selected Publications

“Energy Use in the Japanese Copper Industry from the Meiji Period to World War I”, Asian Review of World Histories, vol.9, pp.82-109, 2020.
An Environmental Economic History of Forest Resources: Timber and industrialization in Modern Japan, Tokyo: Keio Daigaku Shuppankai, 2015（in Japanese）
“The Government Railways and the Procurement of Railway Sleepers in Prewar Japan”, in S. Sugiyama (ed.) Economic History of Energy and Environment, Tokyo: Springer, 2015