KANO Hiroyoshi is Professor of Southeast Asian economic studies. The main subject of his research is the economic history and rural economy of Indonesia. He received his B.A. (1970) from the Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo and obtained his Doctor of Economics degree (1990) also from the University of Tokyo. He started his academic career in 1971 as a Member of the Research Staff, Institute of Developing Economies (IDE). In 1980 he was appointed Associate Professor of the Institute of Oriental Culture and was promoted to Professor in 1991. He was Guest Researcher at the University of Amsterdam from 1986 to 1987 and was given a similar position at Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia from 1987 to 1988. He also stayed at the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Indonesia as an expert of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) for a year from December 1999.
Prof. Kano is the author of numerous books and articles, including Beneath the Smoke of the Sugar Mill: Javanese Coastal Communities during the Twentieth Century (Yogyakarta, AKATIGA and Gadjah Mada University Press, 2001, xxii + 313 pp., coedited with Frans Hüsken and Djoko Suryo), Economic Change in Rural Central Java: 85 Years of Comal District (Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, 1994, iv + 478 pp., coauthored with M. Tanaka and K. Mizuno), Pagelaran: Anatomi Sosial Ekonomi Pelapisan Masyarakat Tani di Sebuah Desa Jawa Timur [Pagelaran: A Socio-economic Anatomy on Stratification of Peasant Society in an East Java Village] (Yogyakarta: Gadjah Mada University Press, 1990), The Rural Economy of Indonesia (Tokyo: Keiso Publisher, 1988), and "The Economic History of Javanese Rural Society: A Reinterpretation," Developing Economies 16-1 (1980): 3-22.