HOHRI Hitomi

Economic history of interwar Japan

Ph.D., Economics, University of Tokyo, 2016
M.A., Economics, University of Tokyo, 2013
B.A., Economics, Kobe University, 2011

JSPS Research Fellow(RPD), School of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics, Institute of Science Tokyo, Apr.2024-Aug.2026.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 2021-2024.
Assistant Professor, College of Economics, Rikkyo University, 2018-2021
Research Associate, Department of Economics, Teikyo University, 2017-2018
Analyst, Economic Research Division, Mitsubishi Economic Research Institute, 2016-2017
Research Fellow(DC1), JSPS, 2013-2016

Publications in Refereed Journals (in Japanese)

• "Firm Growth in Prewar Japan : A Case Study of the Long-lived Firm", Japan business history review 52(4), 3-29, 2018-03.
• "Productivity and profitability implications of integrating cotton spinning and weaving : the case of prewar Japan", Socio-economic History, vol 80, no 4, 2015, 507-526.
• "The dynamism of cotton weaving clusters in interwar Banshu : an approach from the factory", Socio- economic History, vol 78, no 3, 2012, 445-463.

Conference Presentations (in English)

• "The Economic Consequences of Exchange Rate Shocks: Labor Market and Productivity Effects in Japan’s Cotton Industry", European Historical Economics Society Conference, University of Hohenheim, September2025.
• "The Impact of Industrial Growth on Regional Prosperity: The Case of Japan’s Textile Industry and Population Change in the 1930s", Economic History Society Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, April 2025.
• "Creative Destructions in Interwar Japan: Evidence from the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 "(with Kota Ogasawara) , European Historical Economics Society Conference, University of Groningen, June 2022.