Akinobu Kuroda
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Akinobu Kuroda (黑田明伸) is professor of East Asian history in the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo. He specialises in the complementarity of monies in East Asia, India, Africa, and Europe.
Kuroda studied at Kyoto University (BA, 1980, MA 1982, PhD Oriental history 1985. PhD economics 1995). Kuroda was a visiting scholar at Harvard-Yanching Institute, 2014–2015. He was the editor of the International Journal of Asian Studies for fourteen years until 2018. He has been the recipient of several research grants, including:
- International Collaborative Research on the Variety of Exchange and Multiplicity of Money in Global History (世界史における交換の多様性と貨幣の多元性についての国際共同研究), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (学術振興会)
- International Cooperative Research on the Multiplicity of Money: Division of Labour among Monies and its Comparison in the World History (貨幣の多元性についての国際共同研究:世界史における貨幣間分業とその比較), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (学術振興会)
- Money as Social Circuit: Interdisciplinary Research on the Complementarity between Anonymous Currency and Named Credit (社会的回路としての貨幣:匿名的通貨と指名的信用の相互補完性についての学際的研究), Toyota Foundation (トヨタ財団研究助成)
- International Cooperative Research on the Complementarity among Monies Caused by Temporality, Seasonality, and Locality in Making Transactions (取引の一時性・季節性そして空間性がもたらす貨幣間の補完性についての国際共同研究), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (学術振興会)
- Asymmetric Monies: Revisiting Global Monetary History from the Viewpoints of Complementarity and Viscosity (非対称な貨幣たち-補完性と粘性からみた貨幣の世界史), University of Tokyo Symposium Grant in Aid, (東京大学シンポ助成)
- Study on the Non-Uniformity and the Complementarity of Monetary Circulation in the World History: Searching for the Possibility of Autonomous and Concurrent Monetary System (世界史にみる貨幣流通の非均質性、補完性についての研究――自律的で共存的な貨幣システムの可能性を探る), Toyota Foundation (トヨタ財団研究助成)
- Unique Characteristics and Synchronicity of Currencies in Medieval and Early Modern East Asia and their Implications in the Theory of Money (中近世東アジア貨幣史の特殊性・共時性とその貨幣論的含意), Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (文部科学省 特定研究(東アジア海域))
- Comparative Historical Study of Foreign Currencies Circulation in Modern Asian and Africa (近代アジア・アフリカにおける外国通貨流通の比較史的研究), The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (学術振興会)
- Comparative Historical Study of Trade Silver Dollars Circulation in Asia and Africa and Their Demises (アジア・アフリカにおける貿易銀流通とその終焉についての比較史的研究), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (学術振興会)
- Comparison between India and China in the Modern World System Centred around Money and Finance (貨幣・金融を中心とする近代世界システムにおけるインドと中国の比較), Japanese Ministry of Education (文部省 特定(南アジア))