Professor Fujio Mizuoka
MA (Hitotsubashi University), Ph.D. (Clark University)
Professor of Economic Geography, Graduate School of Economics,
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.
E: fmizuoka@econgeog.misc.hit-u.ac.jp
Profile
Fujio Mizuoka teaches economic geography at the Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University. Matters related to urban and inter-city transportation are dealt with during field trips (including Brazil and Central Asia), which have enabled him to conduct comparative studies of transportation in different countries across the globe. His research specializes in formulating concepts of economic geography and globalization. His university text, Geography, Economy and Society, has become one of the best-selling texts in the discipline of social and economic geography written in the Japanese language. Mizuoka discusses the shift in the spatial configuration of transportation under neo-liberalism and technological innovation. He has been invited to write a score of entries on economic geography in the Dictionary of Economics published by Yuhikaku.
Selected Publications since 2000
- Mizuoka, F. (2005) Globalism, Hassaku Sha, (in Japanese).
- Mizuoka, F, Mizuuchi, T, Nagao, K and Takagi, A, 2002, Geography of Economy and Society, Yuhikaku (in Japanese).
- Mizuoka, F. et. al, (2005) 'The Critical Heritage of Japanese Geography - Its Tortured Trajectory for Seven Decades' Society and Space.
- Mizuoka, F. ed., (2005) 'International Boundaries and the Restructuring of Class Relations in Asia under the Global Economy: An Approach from Economic Geography', The Journal of Political Economy and Economic History,187 (in Japanese).
- Mizuoka, F. (2004) 'Japan: The Economic Consequences of the Fetish of Space' Urban Policy and Research 22 (2).
- Takeda I and Mizuoka F. (2003), 'The Privatisation of the Japan National Railways: the Myth of Neo-Liberal Reform and Spatial Configurations of the Rail Network in Japan — A View from Critical Geography' In N. Low and B. Gleeson, eds Making Urban Transport Sustainable, Basingstoke UK, Palgrave-Macmillan pp. 149-162.