Sungshin Cho

Last Updated :2026/04/10

Affiliations, Positions
Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2026/04, 9999, Hiroshima University, Assistant Professor
  • 2025/04, 2026/03, Doshisha University, Faculty of Commerce
  • 2024/04, 2025/03, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • 2024/04, 2025/03, Osaka Sangyo University, Faculty of Economics
  • 2023/10, 2023/12, IMS-FORTH (The Institute for Mediterranean Studies - Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas), Visiting Researcher

Educational Backgrounds

  • Kyoto University, Graduate School of Economics, 2022/04, 2025/03
  • Kyoto University, Graduate School of Economics, 2020/04, 2022/03
  • Kyoto University, Faculty of Economics, 2011/04, 2015/03
  • 2007/04, 2010/03

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. Basic Dynamics of the Shipping Industry: Economic Cycles, Technology, and Regulation, The Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics, 20240919
  2. The reorganization of Japanese and Hong Kong shipping in the 1980s: expanding role of the general trading companies into the “Chartering Business”, 90(2), 111-134, 202409
  3. The Rise and Internationalization of Imabari Shipowners: Restructuring of the Japanese Shipping Industry since the 1970s, 58(3), 27-49, 202312

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. The New Phase of Asian Shipbuilding (1970–2005): Market Structures and the Diverging Paths of Japan and South Korea, Sungshin Cho, The Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference 2026, 2026/03/27
  2. Postwar Japanese Shipping -The Evolution of Partnerships between Unkoh-Kaisha and Senshu-, Sungshin Cho, The 12th Korean Association of Shipping & Port Studies International Joint Academic Conference, 2025, 2025/12/05
  3. Business Groups without a Core: Logistics-Based Evidence from Japan’s Postwar Shipping Sector, Sungshin Cho, Annual Congress of the European Business History Association EBHA 2025, 2025/06/28
  4. The cooperative system formed throughout the 20th century among large and small shipping companies in Japan, Sungshin Cho, The 9th International Conference of Maritime History, 2024/08/21
  5. Independence and Interaction of Segments within an Industry: The Dynamism in Shipping Industry 1990 - 2020, Sungshin Cho, The 70th Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference 2024, 2024/03/16
  6. The birth of world-class shipowners from a maritime community in Japan, Sungshin Cho, Insular and Maritime Societies 3rd International Conference, 2023/11/05
  7. Dynamics of International and Inter Industrial Relationships -Japanese and Hong Kong Maritime Industry since 1970-, Sungshin Cho, The 26th Annual Congress of the European Business History Association 2023, 2023/08/24
  8. Changing value-chain in the shipping industry: Hidden function of shipowners, Sungshin Cho, The 25th Annual Congress of the European Business History Association 2022, 2022/06/24

Awards

  1. 2024/10, Best Paper Award, Business History Society of Japan
  2. 2024/08, IMHA Scholarship Award, International Maritime History Association