Kaoru Sugihara is Professor of Economic History at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, and is currently President of the Japan Society of Socio-economic History. His English-language publications include Japan in the Contemporary Middle East, co-edited with J. A. Allan (Routledge, 1993) and Editor, Japan, China and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850-1949 (Oxford University Press, 2005).
