Steven J. Ericson

Selected Publications

• "Antitrust in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952: Complicating the 'Reverse Course' View," Journal of American-East Asian Relations, vol. 33, no. 1 (2026), pp. 1-30.

• Editor for Northeast Asian Commerical History, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian Commerical History, vol. 1 (2025)

• Financial Stabilization in Meiji Japan: The Impact of the Matsukata Reform (2020).

• "Smithian Rhetoric, Listian Practice: The Matsukata 'Retrenchment' and Industrial Policy, 1881-1885," Japan Forum, vol. 30, no. 4 (2018) 498-520.

• "Japanese Agency and Business Reform in Occupied Japan: The Holding Company Liquidation Commission and Zaibatsu Dissolution," in The Economic and Business History of Occupied Japan, Thomas W. French (ed.), (2017) 11-30.

• "Orthodox Finance and 'The Dictates of Practical Expediency': Influences on Matsukata Masayoshi and the Financial Reform of 1881-1885," Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 71, no. 1 (2016) 83-117.

• "Japonica, Indica: Rice and Foreign Trade in Meiji Japan," Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 41 (Summer 2015) 317-345.

• "The 'Matsukata Deflation' Reconsidered: Financial Stabilization and Japanese Exports in a Global Depression, 1881-85," Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 40 (Winter 2014) 1-28.

• The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies, co-edited with A Hockley (2008).

• "Riding the Rails: The Japanese Railways Meet the Challenge of War," in The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective, J Steinberg et al. (eds.), (2006) 225-249.

• "Taming the Iron Horse: Western Locomotive Makers and Technology Transfer in Japan, 1870-1914," in Public Spheres, Private Lives in Modern Japan, 1600-1950: Essays in Honor of Albert M. Craig, G L Bernstein, et al. (eds.), (2005) 185-217.

• The Sound of the Whistle: Railroads and the State in Meiji Japan (1996).