Research field (2):
Economic history
, Business administration
Research keywords (6):
Company museum
, history of finance
, management
, collateral
, economic history
, business history
Research theme for competitive and other funds (12):
2022 - 2028 Establishing a New Liberal Arts Education
2025 - 2027 Understanding Innovation & Early Industry in Japan 1880-1885
2022 - 2026 Comprehensive and Cross-Disciplinary Study on Company Museums in Japan
2024 - 2025 Preliminary Study in the Development of Collateral Management at the Suwa Warehouse
2021 - 2025 20世紀前半期日本における生業・生活金融の地域的展開に関する総合的研究
2020 - 2025 The role of warehouses in silk reeling finance: The Ueda Warehouse and the creation of Jyukyu Bank's loans collateralized by silk cocoons
2019 - 2020 Potential for biographies of bankers and financiers
2016 - 2020 Role of Warehouses in Sericulture Finance: The Suwa Warehouse and secured lending using silk cocoons as collateral
2018 - 2019 Origins of silk cocoons used as collateral in silk reeling finance: The Jyukyu Bank and Suwa Warehouse in the Meiji era
2017 - 2018 Morality in the age of Artificial Intelligence: From a management viewpoint
2016 - 2017 Comparative analysis of silk reeling finance in Japan and Italy, end of 19th to early 20th centuries
2012 - 2014 Function of collateral as a medium of communication in asset based lending - a comparative analysis between Japan and US
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Papers (13):
Aki Kinjo. How Companies Heal and Maintain Health: A Unique Function of Corporate Museums in Japan. Comparative Civilizations Review. 2025. 92. 100-118
Aki Kinjo, Naoya Takayanagi. A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CORPORATE MUSEUMS OF VOLVO AND ISUZU: LEVERAGING AN UNTAPPED ASSET FOR INVESTIGATING NARRATIVES IN BUSINESS HISTORY. Entreprises et Histoire. 2024. 116. 33-52
Aki Kinjo. Shibusawa Eiichi and the Origin of Japanese Modern Warehouse Finance: Investigating Bank and Warehouse Business in the Early Meiji-Era through the Takuzenkai Proceedings. Journal of Law and Management. 2022. 5. 31-54
Aki Kinjo. Japanese Management. Kaleidoscopic Views of Japan. 2019. 30-44
Aki Kinjo. Merging Law and Business History: Case Study in the Development of Collateral in Japan at the Turn of the 20th Century. Bulletin of Gakushuin Women's College. 2019. 21. 15-30
Aki Kinjo. Book Review: Ohno, Akira; "Global History of Raw Silk and Silk Textiles". Japanese Business History Review. 2025. 59. 4. 69-71
Aki Kinjo. Book Review: Yuichi Kanai, "Can Central Banks Create Money" (Nagoya University Press, 2023). Socio-Economic History. 2024. 90. 3. 130-133
Aki Kinjo. Dialogue with Chikako Tsuruta, "An Interpreter's View of the Japanese Society: What Can and Should be Communicated". Journal of Law and Management. 2022. 5. 1-27
Aki Kinjo. Book Review: Noboru Kobayashi, "Economic History of Property Rights" (Tokyo University Press: August, 2020). 2021. 52. 19-22
Aki Kinjo. (Book Review) "Regional Finance in Postwar Japan-Challenge by the Bankers". Review of Monetary and Financial Studies. 2021. 43. 117-119
Book review: History and Management Studies on Collateral
(Japan Society of Monetary Economics, History Division 2024)
Present at the Creation: Rhetorical History in situ at a Corporate Museum
(European Business History Association 2024 Congress (Lisbon) 2024)
How companies heal and maintain health: A unique function of corporate museums in Japan (Japan Panel; Harmony in Transition. Structural Reform and Well-being in Japan)
(International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations, 53rd Annual Conference: Health, Healing and Civilizations 2024)
Discussant: Japan Society or Monetary Economics, Monetary History Group
(Conversazione: "Can Central Banks Create Money" Yuichi Kanai, Nagoya University Press, 2023. 2024)
- 2015 Kyoto University Graduate School of Economics
- 1992 Columbia Business School
- 1987 The University of Tokyo
Professional career (3):
Ph.D (Kyoto University)
MBA (Columbia Business School)
BA (The University of Tokyo)
Work history (4):
2015/04 - 現在 現職
2020/04 - 2021/03 Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
2012/04 - 2015/03 Kansai Gaidai University
1987/04 - 2012/03 Professional, executive and CEO at financial, management consulting and start-up firms.
Association Membership(s) (6):
European Business History Association
, Business History Conference
, BUSINESS HISTORY SOCIETY OF JAPAN
, THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC HISTORY SOCIETY
, JAPAN SOCIETY OF MONETARY ECONOMICS
, Society for Regional Financial History