This is four years later than the foundation of the Economic History Society in the United Kingdom, and 10 years earlier than the foundation of the Economic History Association in the United States ( ). [...] Given the number of economic historians in Japan the number of publications in the 2010s is small, but the progress of internationalization in the past two decades is noteworthy. [...] However, in the 2000s and the 2010s, the University of Tokyo drove the increase in publications. [...] As noted, until the 1990s, most economic historians in Japan did not have an interest in publishing their papers in international journals, and this mode of thinking was typical of the scholars at the University of Tokyo, who were prestigious in the academic community in Japan. [...] For example, most of the papers published in the three major journals in the field of economic history (JEH, EEH, and EHR) use the methods of economics and econometrics, and could be published in journals in applied economics.
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