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Authored Book
The Middle Class World: Halifax, 1780-1850 (Kyoto: Minerva Publishing, 2008), Ⅹ+367 (in Japanese).



Articles in Journal
'Shaping Civic Culture through Public Discussion: The Debating Societies of Birmingham, c. 1850 - c. 1890', Midland History, 41(1) May 2016, 57-70.
DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2016.1159854
‘The Political Economy and Economic History Society’, Information Bulletin of the Union of National Economic Associations in Japan, no. 36, 2016, 49-60.
Parties, middle-class voters, and the urban community: Rethinking the Halifax Parliamentary elections, 1832-1852', Northern History, 51(1) March 2014, 91-112. (著者DOI: 10.1179/0078172X13Z.00000000060
Voluntary societies and the urban local community: A case study of the Halifax Mechanics' Institution, Family & Community History, 11(1) May 2008, 17-25. DOI: 10.1179/175138108x293075

The Making of History of Birmingham (1952; 1974): Urban Governance and History of Birmingham, c. 1870-c.1970, Hitotsubashi Economics, vol. 10 no. 1, 2016, 7- 34 (in Japanese).
‘Historical Studies in Japan, 2009: The Modern Britain Isles’, Shigaku=Zasshi, 119 (5), 2010, 324-331 (in Japanese).
‘Public Institutions in the British Provincial Town during the Industrial Revolution: Halifax, 1780-1850’, Hakusan Shigaku (the Historical Studies of Toyo University), no. 41, 2005, 15-39 (in Japanese).

‘Economic structure in the British provincial town during the Industrial Revolution: Halifax, 1780-1850’, The Keizai Gaku (Annual Report of the Economic Society), Tohoku University, vol. 65 no. 3, 2004, 59-74 (in Japanese).
‘The Middling Sort in Britain: a Survey’, Historical Theory and Education, 104, 1999, 32-40 (in Japanese).
‘The Middle Class during the Industrial Revolution: Leeds, 1780-1820’, The Comparative Urban History Review, vol. 16 no. 1, 1997, 41-53 (in Japanese).
‘The Urban Elite in Leeds during the Industrial Revolution, 1780-1820: From Notables to Middle Class’, Socio-Economic History (Shakai-Keizai-Shigaku), vol. 63 no. 4, 1997, 58-87 (in Japanese).
‘A Trend of Land Use in the Later Eighteenth Century Leeds’, Hakusan Shigaku (the Historical Studies of Toyo University), no. 30, 1994, 57-78 (in Japanese).

Articles in Book
‘Debates, social tensions and consumption in the urban community: Debating societies in Birmingham, c. 1850-c. 1890’, in Hiroki Shin, Shinobu Majima and Yusuke Tanaka (eds.), History of Consumer Culture 2014 Conference: Moving Around: People, Things and Practices in Consumer Culture: 4-6 September 2014, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Conference Proceedings (Forum for History of Consumer Culture, Japan, 2015), pp. 177-183 (ISBN 978-4-9908202-1-3).
‘Model Industrial Villages and Public Institutions: A Harmonious Society of all Classes and Social Improvement in the Urban Local Community’, in Toyomitsu Okamura, Minoru Takada and Shusaku Kanazawa (eds.), The Origins of Welfare Voluntarism in Britain: Capital, Community and State (Kyoto: Minerva Publishing, 2012), 91-109 (in Japanese).
‘Middleman: Commercial Societies in the British Provincial Towns’, in Nobuyuki Yoshida and Takeshi Ito (eds.), The City in Tradition, vol. 4: Segmented Structure (Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2010), 247-259 (in Japanese).
‘The Model of the British Middle Class: the Works of R.J. Morrisv, in Igirisu Toshi Noson Kyodotai Kenkyukai and Tohoku Daigaku Keizaishi Keieishi Kenkyukai (the Research Group of British Urban and Rural Communities and The Tohoku University Research Group of Economic and Business History) (eds.), British Urban History: Town and Region (Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Hyouronsha, 2004), 263-285(in Japanese).

Review Article in Journal
‘Space and Institutional Matrix on Modern British Cities: a Review of the Nineteenth-century Urban History’, Socio-Economic History (Shakai-Keizai-Shigaku), vol. 72 no. 4, 2006, 91-100 (in Japanese).

Contribution to Book
‘Nature of Entreprenur’, in Business History Society of Japan (ed.), Business History in the World: Basic Facts and Concepts (Tokyo: Yuhikaku, 2005), 146-147 (in Japanese).

Ph.D. thesis
‘The Middle Class in Halifax, 1780-1850’, Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, 2003.
(Descript xv, 322) Abstract(PDF file) (Leeds University Library) History On-Line(IHR) White Rose eTheses Online

Discussion Papers
‘The Urban Elite in Leeds, 1780-1820: From Notables to Middle Class’, Tohoku Management and Accounting Research Group(TM & ARG), Discussion Paper, No. 52, 1996, 1-36.
(Revised Paper PDF file 1, File 2, File 3, File 4, File 5)


Conference and Seminar Papers
‘Shaping Culture through Public Discussion:The Debating Societies of Birmingham, c. 1850 - c. 1890’, History of Consumer Culture 2014 Conference: Moving Around: People, Things and Practices in Consumer Culture, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, 4-6 September 2014, Conference Proceedings, 128-144.
‘ ‘The most dangerous foreign politician in the country’ or ‘the greatest orator of modern times’: John Bright and Birmingham, 1857-1889’, The Emergence of the West Midlands: Culture, Communities and Change 1779 - 1918, The Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre 〔and University of Birmingham〕, 1 April 2012.
‘Businessmen, politics and public institutions in the Northern English town: Economic, political and social relationships in Halifax, c.1830-c.1850’, The Association of Business Historians Annual Conference 2009 ― Cities of Business, the Business of Cities... , University of Liverpool Management School, 4th July 2009.
‘Party, middle-class voters, and the urban community: Rethinking the Halifax Borough elections, 1832-1852’, University of Birmingham, Modern History Seminar 2008-2009, University of Birmingham, 6th May 2009(Summer Term 2008-2009).
‘Social improvement and a harmonious society of all classes: Social relationships and institutions in the model villages of Halifax, c.1840-c.1850’, The Social History Society 2009 Annual Conference (Spaces and Places―Restless Radicals), University of Warwick, 4th April 2009.
‘A harmonious society of all classes? Manufacturers and social relationships in the Northern English town: Halifax, c.1840-c.1850’, European Association for Urban History, Histoire comparée des villes européennes / Comparative History of European Cities, Communications / Papers, Session M10, Lyon, 27-30 août 2008 / 27th-30th August 2008, Ciham - UMR 5648, Lyon; Université Lumière Lyon 2; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Ecole Normale Supérieure - Lettres et Sciences Humaines (CD-ROM, Lyon 2009), 8-11.
‘John Bright and Japanese Interpretations during Modernisation: Works by Roka Tokutomi and Sanji Muto’, Conference on Modern British History, University of Strathclyde, 24th June 2008.
‘Voluntary Societies and the Urban Local Community: A Case Study of the Halifax Mechanics’ Institutes’, Urban living: society, culture and politics in the English town, 1700-1850, University of Northampton, 6th July 2007.
‘John Bright (1811-1889): Historiography and A New Perspective’, Seminar on Manchester School and British Empire, Yokohama National University, 7th December 2005.
‘Using database techniques for social history: From a young generatio’n, Lunch time workshop in School of History at University of Leeds, University of Leeds, 11th May 2000.
‘Rethinking the dominance of "manufacturers" in the northern English town: the middle class in Halifax, c. 1830-50’, Programme including New Researchers' papers and Abstracts of the other Academic Papers for the Economic History Society Annual Conference, University of Bristol, April 2000, 19-24. (PDF file)
(Revised Paper The British Middle Class and the Dominance of Manufacturers: Halifax, c. 1830-1850, July 2002 PDF file


Other Unpublished Papers
The Middle Class in Halifax, 1780-1850, unpublished paper 23 July 1998, 1-64 and i-xv(Bibliography).
(This paper is submitted in accordance with the requirement for the upgrading from provisional PhD to PhD, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds.) (PDF file of Bibliogrpahy)

Reports of Seminars
‘The Urban Local Community and Voluntary societies: A Case Study of the Halifax Mechanics’ Institution’, Shigaku=Zasshi, 116 (1), 2007, 120-121 in Japanese).
‘Politics and the Middle Class in the Urban Local Community: Halifax Borough Elections in the Second Quarter of the Nineteenth Century’, Seiyoshigaku (the Studies in Western History), 212 (2003), 71.

‘Continuity and Change in the British Provincial Town from the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century ? The Middle Class in Halifax, 1780-1820’, The Comparative Urban History Review, vol. 21 no. 1, 2002, 6-7 (in Japanese).
‘The Urban Elites in Leeds, 1780-1820’, The Comparative Urban History Review, vol. 14 no. 2, 1995, 8-9 (in Japanese).



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