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 水島 司
Tsukasa Mizushima


E-mail: zushima2010@gmail.com

Dr. Mizushima is the Professor Emeritus of the University of Tokyo. Currenly he teaches "Global Economic History" at the Open University of Japan as a visiting professor. He is also affiliated as fellow with the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

■ Recent Publication ■
■ "Regional Patterns of Economic Change: South India", in Modern South Asia Part 1 Colonial India: 1757-1947, Latika Chaudhary, Tirthankar Roy and Anand V. Swamy(eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2026, pp. 230-241.
■ 『日英対訳 詳説世界史 上・下 Bilingual World HIstory Volumes 1 & 2』 橋場弦(Hashiba Yuzuru)、岸本美緒(Kishimoto Mio)、小松久男(Komatsu Hisao)、水島司(Mizushima Tsukasa)(監修) 山川出版社 2026年7月 478頁
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■ "Shares, land and market", Journal of Cultural Economy, Volume 15, 2022 - Issue 5, pp. 713-716.
■ The Rural-Urban Nexus in India's Economic Transformation (Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies) , edited by Tsukasa Mizushima, Routledge, December 2022.
■ Indian Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: The Roots of Development, authored by Haruka Yanagisawa, edited by Tsukasa Mizushima, translated by Gaynor Sekimori, Routledge, December 2022.
■ Sustainable Development in India: Groundwater Irrigation, Energy Use, and Food Production, edited by Koichi Fujita and Tsukasa Mizushima, Routledge, 2020.
■ "Introduction" (co-authored by Koichi Fujita and Tsukasa Mizushima) , in Sustainable Development in India: Groundwater Irrigation, Energy Use, and Food Production, Koichi Fujita and Tsukasa Mizushima(eds.), Routledge, 2020, pp. 1-16.
■ "Land Development and Demographic Change in Tamil Nadu from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century", in Sustainable Development in India: Groundwater Irrigation, Energy Use, and Food Production, Koichi Fujita and Tsukasa Mizushima(eds.), Routledge, 2020, pp. 19-37.
■ "Bringing Local Towns into the Global Economy: the Role of Nattukottai Chettiyars on the Malay Peninsula", in Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia, edited by Chi-cheung Choi, Takashi Oishi, and Tomoko Shiroyama, Brill, 2019, pp. 155-189.

■ Past Research Projects (April 2009 - March 2018) ■
Project Title Duration
Historical Maps of Asia"sponsored by JSPS April 2017 - March 2019
“Comparative Studies of Two Iron Cities in Asia: Yawata in Japan and Jamshedhpur in India” sponsored by JSPS(Bilateral Programs) April 2016 - March 2018
“Studies of Urban Formation in India: Madras, Coimbatore, and Kanchipuram” sponsored by JSPS (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(B)) April 2015 - March 2018
"Integrated Area Studies on South Asia (INDAS South Asia) at The University of Tokyo (TINDAS) sponsored by the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) April 2015 - March 2017
"GIS-based Global History from Asian Perspective" sponsored by JSPS (Topic-Setting Program to Advance Cutting-Edge Humanities and Social Sciences Research: Global Initiatives ) April 2013 - March 2017
"The Center for the Study of Contemporary India" at The University of Tokyo (TINDAS) sponsored by the National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU) April 2010 - March 2015
"Long-term Trends of Indian Villages" sponsored by JSPS(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)) April 2009 - March 2014
JSPS: The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  ■ Interview Article ■
  • THE HINDU, August 27, 2013
    An interview article about India Place Finder, one of the achievements of Research Project on ”Long-term Trends of Indian Villages(Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(S)).”

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