CV

Toru Yamamori
Email: toruyamamori@gmail.com
Website: http://tyamamor.doshisha.ac.jp

Professional Appointments

from 2011
Professor. Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University, Japan.
2007-2011
Associate Professor. Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University,
Japan.
2004-2009
Research Associate. Capability and Sustainability Centre, The Von
Hügel Institute, St Edmund's College, Cambridge, UK. (2004-2006
residential, 2006-2009 non-residential)
2000-2007
Assistant Professor. Faculty of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan (2004-2006 on leave).

Education

1997-2001
PhD (Economics), Kyoto University, Japan.
1994-1997 Master (Economics), Osaka City University, Japan.
1990-1994 Bachelor (Economics), Kyoto University, Japan.

Research Grants (selected)

2011-2016
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,
Japan, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (in History of Economic
Thought), "Economics and Happiness" (led by Prof. Daisuke Arie).

2010-2014
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Young
Scientists (in Gender Studies), "Welfare Feminism and Basic Income".

2009-2014
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,
Japan, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (in Social Policy), "Policy
Implementation of Basic Income in Japan" (led by Prof. Shuji Ozawa).

2002-2004
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,
Japan, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, (in History of Economic
Thought), "History of Economics on Distributive Justice" (led by Prof.
Daisuke Arie).

2004 - 2006
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Postdoctoral Fellowship
for Research Abroad (in History of Economic Thought), "Distributive
Justice and the Capability approach".

2002-2004
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology,
Japan, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (in Economics),
"Globalization and Gender" (led by Prof. Nobuko Hara).

2001-2003
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grant-in-Aid for Young
Scientists (in Economics), "Welfare Theory of Amartya Sen and the
Political Economy of Care".

Academic Organization (Selected)

2012-present Member of Executive Committee, the Basic Income Earth Network.
2003-2012
Member of Executive Committee, the Japanese Association for Feminist Economics.
2005-2006 Associate Editor, the Basic Income Studies.
2004-2006 Member, the Human Development and Capability Association.
2001-2004
Member, the International Association for Feminist Economics.

Publications (Selected)

In English
in preparation
Basic Income in Japan: Prospects of a radical idea in a transforming
welfare state. (editor with Yannick Vanderborght), publisher under
negotiation.
2012
"Japan: Political Change after the Economic Crisis Introduces Universalist Benefit" in Richard K. Caputo (ed.) Basic Income Guarantee and Politics: International Experiences and Perspectives on the Viability of Income Guarantee , Palgrave Macmillan (ch.12, pp.203-216).
2010
"Missing Women: The Forgotten Struggles of Single Mothers for Basic
Income" in Basic Income Korea Network (ed.) Sutainable Utopia and
Basic Income in a Global Era (pp.85-103).
2003
"Constructive Universalism : Sen and Sensivity to Difference",

Ethique Economique, vol.1, 2003, Universite de Versailles (pp.1-15).
2000
"Redistribution and Recognition : Normative Theories and Political

Economy of Welfare Srtates", in Yuichi Shionoya and Kiichiro
Yagi(eds.),Competition, Trust and Cooperation--Comparative Study--,

Springer Verlag (chapter 12,pp.227-243).

In French
2011
”Controverses autour du revenue d’existence au Japon”, Informations Sociales, no.168, Novembre-Décembre 2011 (pp.112-115, translated from English to French by Thierry Ribault).

In German
2006
(with Soichiro Tanaka) "Soziale Anerkennung und Grundeinkommen
in Japan" in Mansfred Fuellsack (ed.), Globale soziale Sicherheit:
Grundeinkommen-weltweit?, Avinus-Verlag, Berlin .
(pp.159-168, translated from English to German by the editor & co.).

In Japanese (only books)
2012
Work and Right to Live.(editor) Ohtsuki Shoten, Tokyo, Japan.
2010
Reform of Social Security or Basic Income?. (with Toshiaki
Tachibanaki) Jinbun Shoin, Kyoto, Japan.
2009
Guaranteed Basic Income. Kobunsha, Tokyo, Japan.

Other than books above, I contribute 10 papers in academic journals and 15 chapters in books in Japanese.

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