Shin Tomita

Shin Tomita graduated at the University of Tokyo, and has a Masters Degree and PhD from Gakushuin University in Japan. His research focuses on the British railway industry, particularly with regard to its creation, development and nationalization, and business structure. He works at the Faculty of Business at Kokushikan University in Setagay, Tokyo where he teaches courses in Business History (Western and Japanese), Corporate Structure and Strategy, and Tourism and Transport. He has published widely in the field of business history; received the Sumida Paper Award in 2012; and a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) from 2011 to 2013. He is a visiting fellow at CEGBI in the School for Business and Society for one year (from April 2015 to March 2016).  Currently he is comparing the British railway industry with other public utility industries, and also with the railway systems of other countries, particularly France and Japan.