Research keywords (7):
Postwar reconstruction
, Transition economy
, Labor market
, Human capital
, repatriation
, The South Manchuria Railway Company
, 引揚者在外事実調査票
Research theme for competitive and other funds (4):
2023 - 2026 The recovery process of the labor market in post-WWII Hiroshima city
2019 - 2022 Economic reconstruction of Hiroshima city: an analysis of economic statistics, 1945-1965
2017 - 2019 Economic experiences of the South Manchuria Railway employees in postwar Japan: Kanagawa, Osaka and Hiroshima prefectures
Papers (10):
Yumi Kimura, Sumiyo Nishizaki. Introduction to Hikiagesha Zaigai Jijitsu Chōsahyō (The 1956 national survey into Japanese repatriates' wartime and post-war lives). Rikkyo Economic Review. 2023. 77. 2. 39-59
Sumiyo Nishizaki. The Labor Market in Post-WWII Okinawa and repatriates returned from Manchuria. Rikkyo Economic Review. 2023. 76. 3. 191-216
Sumiyo Nishizaki. From Manchuria to post-war Japan: Knowledge Transfer through in-house training at the South Manchuria Railway Company (SMR). LSE Economic History Working Papers. 2022. 336
Sumiyo Nishizaki. Dissertation Summary: After empire comes home: Economic experiences of Japanese civilian repatriates, 1945-56. Australian Economic History Review. 2020. 60. 2. 259-267
Sumiyo Nishizaki. Economic experiences of Japanese civilian repatriates in Hiroshima prefecture, 1945-1956. LSE Economic History Working Papers. 2019. 299
Sumiyo Nishizaki. Review of Nihon Teikoku no Bōchō Hōkai to Manmō Kaitakudan (forthcoming). Journal of the Asia-Japan Research Institute of Ritsumeikan. 2021. 2. 168-169
Sumiyo Nishizaki. Review of Dear China: emigrant letters and remittances, 1820-1980. The Economic History Review. 2019. 72. 2. 782-783
Sumiyo Nishizaki. Review of Edwin O. Reischauer and the American Discovery of Japan. SAIS Review. 2010. 30. 2. 189-193
Books (1):
‘A case study: The United Arab Emirates and Japan: Diversifying bilateral relationships and challenges in the context of Japan's new foreign policy focus and US-Japan relations' in East by Mid-East
Equinox Publishing 2013 ISBN:9781845539337
Lectures and oral presentations (32):
"Americans and Okinawans at work: The early postwar labor market in Okinawa" IN a panel titled "The Allied Occupation and Its Lasting Influences in Japan’s Postwar: A New Perspective"
(The 2025 American Historical Association Annual Conference 2025)
The Labor Market in Post-WWII Okinawa and repatriates returned from Manchuria
(The 92th Socio-Economic History Society Annual Conference 2023)
Economic experiences of Japanese civilian repatriates in Sennan County in Osaka, 1945-1956
(Keizai Kenkyūjyo, Kokushikan University 2022)
From Manchuria to Postwar Japan: Knowledge Transfer Through In-house Training at the South Manchuria Railway Company (SMR) in New Approaches to Infrastructure in Japan’s Empire in the Twentieth Century
(The Association for Asian Studies 2021 Annual Conference 2021)
第二次世界大戦後における引揚者の職業体験:「引揚者在外事実調査票」分析
(Postwar Okinawa society and civilian repatriates 2020)