Books

• Sato, Jin. Resource Thinking of the ‘Have-Nots’ Sustainability of Land and Alternative Vision in Japan: University of Tokyo Press, 2011. [Link]
• Sato, Jin. Politics of Scarce Resources: Conservation and Development in Rural Thailand: University of Tokyo Press, 2002. (in Japanese) [Link]

Edited Books

• Sato, Jin, and Soyeun Kim, eds. The Semantics of Development in Asia: Exploring “Untranslatable” Ideas Through Japan: Springer Nature, 2024.6.
• Sato, Jin, ed. Governance of Natural Resources: Uncovering the Social Purpose of Materials in Nature: United Nations University Press, 2013.7. (in english)
• Sato, Jin, and Yasutami Shimomura, eds. The Rise of Asian Donors: Japan’s Impact on the Evolution of Emerging Donors. Written by Jin Sato, and Yasutami Shimomura eds.: Routledge-GRIPS Development Forum Studies, 2012. [Link]
• Sato, Jin, ed. Transboundary Resources and Environment in Mainland Southeast Asia. Written by Jin Sato: Shokado, 2010.

Report

• Sato, Jin. Triangular Cooperation in East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Japanese Official Development Assistance: UN ESCAP, 2014.

Articles and Book Chapters

• Sato, Jin. “Development: Which Ideas Now?” The Semantics of Development in Asia: Exploring “Untranslatable” Ideas Through Japan. Edited by J. Sato, and K. Soyeun: Springer Nature, 2024.6: 1-13.
• Sato, Jin. “Yōsei-Shugi: The Mystery of the Japanese Request-Based Aid.” The Semantics of Development in Asia: Exploring “Untranslatable” Ideas Through Japan. Edited by J. Sato, and K. Soyeun: Springer Nature, 2024.6: 113-128.
• Pattajit Tangsinmunkong, Jin Sato. “Experiencing Development: The Resistance and Adaptation of Thailand Over Half a Century”,in Ryo Sahashi, Yasuhiro Matsuda and Waka Aoyama eds.,.”Asia Rising: A handbook of History and International Relations in East, South and Southeast Asia,: Springer, 2024: 187-208.
• Kim, Soyeun., Wang, Muyun., and Jin. Sato. “Development Knowledge in the Making: The Case of Japan, South Korea and China.”Progress in Development Studies 23, no. 3 2023.7: 275-293.
• Sato, Jin. “Yosei-shugi: The Mystery of the Japanese Request-based Principle.”JICA-RI Working Paper 12 2023.6.
• Sato, Jin. “Introduction to the Special Issue 1“Untranslatable” Japanese Development Concepts.”Journal of International Development Studies 31, no. 3 2023.3: 5-8.
• Sato, Jin. “Pivotal Moments in Japanese ODA: Circa 1950-2010.” International Development Cooperation of Japan and South Korea: New Strategies for an Uncertain World. Edited by Huck-ju Kwon, et al.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022: 45-72.
• Sato, J., & Sonoda, S. “Asian studies “inside-out”: A research agenda for the development of Global Asian Studies.”International Journal of Asian Studies 18, no. 2 2021.6: 207-216.
• Sato, Jin. “Compulsion to maintain: water and state power in Southeast Asia.” Origins and Evolution of Environmental Policies: State, Time and Regional Experiences. Edited by T. Terao, and T. Funatsu: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021: 105-123.
• Sato, J. “Research at a Distance: Area Studies in the Post-Pandemic Era.”International Journal of Asian Studies vol. 17, Issue. 2 2020.7: 105-108.
• Sato, Jin, and Awidya Santikajaya. “Variety of Middle-Income Donors: Comparing Foreign Aid Approaches by Thailand and Indonesia,.” JICA-RI Working Paper. no. 180: JICA Research Institute, 2019.
• Sato, Jin. “The Domestic Infrastructure of Economic Cooperation.” Engineering Asia:Technology, Colonial Development and the Cold War Order. Edited by Hiromi Mizuno, Aaron S. Moore, and John DiMoia: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018: 43-58.
• Sato, Jin. “Triangular Cooperation in East Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Japanese Official Development Assistance.”IDS Bulletin 49, Issue. 3 2018.7: 111-128.
• Sato, Jin. “Internationalization from Within:140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo.” The “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia. Edited by Benjamin A.Elman, and Chao-Hui Jenny Liu: BRILL, 2017: 81-94.
• Sato, Jin. “Internationalization from Within:140 Years of Internationalization at the University of Tokyo.” The “Global” and the “Local” in Early Modern and Modern East Asia. Edited by A. Elman Benjamin, and Chao-Hui Jenny Liu: BRILL, 2017: 81-94.
• Sato, Jin. “The Benefits of Unification Failure: Re-examining the Evolution of Economic Cooperation in Japan.” Japan’s Development Assistance Foreign Aid and the Post-2015 Agenda. Edited by Hiroshi Kato John Page, and Yasutami Shimomura: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: 88-102. [Link]
• Sato, Jin. “Compulsion to Maintain: Water and State Power in Southeast Asia.”8th European Southeast Asian Studies Conference, August 11-14, 2015,Vienna, Austria. 2015.8.
• Dina, Thol, and Jin Sato. “The Cost of Dividing the Commons: Overlapping Property Systems in Tonle Sap, Cambodia.”International Journal of the Commons Vol.9, no. 1 2015.8: 261-280. [Link]
• Sato, Jin. “The Benefits of Unification Failure: Re-examing the Evolution of Economic Cooperation in Japan.”JICA-RI Working Paper, no. 87 2015. [Link]
• Sato, Jin. “Origins of Area Studies in Japan: From Passive Reaction to Forward Engagement.” Area Studies and the History of East and South East Asian Studies: The Case of Frankfurt University. Edited by Michael Kinski: Frankfurt East Asian Studies Series, Frankfurt, Germany, 2015: forthcoming.
• Sato, Jin. “Social Resilience in Post-Tsunami Japan: Diversity and Security after March 11th 2011.” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2nd ed: Oxford: Elsevier, 2015: 570-575.
• Dina, Thol, and Jin Sato. “Is Greater Fishery Access Better for the Poor? Explaining De-Territorialisation of the Tonle Sap, Cambodia.”Journal of Development Studies Vol.50, no. 7 2014.3: 962-976.
• Sato, Jin. “Resource Politics and State-Society Relations: Why are certain states more inclusive than others?” Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 56. no. 3, 2014: 746-777.
• Sato, Jin. “Resource Politics and State-Society Relations: Why are certain states more inclusive than others?” Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 56. no. 3, 2014: 746-777.
• Sato,Jin, Hiroaki Shiga, Takaaki Kobayashi, Hisahiro Kondoh. “‘Emerging Donors’ from a Recipient Perspective: Institutional Analysis of Foreign Aid in Cambodia.”World Development Vol.39, no. 12 2011: 2091-2104. [Link]
• Sato, Jin. “State Inaction in Resource Governance: Natural Resource Control and Bureaucratic Oversight in Thailand.”JICA-RI Working Paper, no. 36 2011. [Link]
• Sato, Jin. “Social science and knowledge for sustainability.” Sustainability Science:A Multidisciplinary Approach. Edited by Hirishi Komiyama, Kazuhiko Takeuchi, Hideaki Shiroyama, and Takashi Mino: United Nations University Press, 2011: 327-335. [Link]
• Sato, Jin. “Resource Policy and Domestic Origins of Foreign Aid.” Economic and Policy Lessons from Japan to Developing Countries. Edited by Toshihisa Toyoda, Hiroshi Kan Sato, and Jun Nishikawa: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: 77-97. [Link]
• Sato, Jin. “Matching Goods and People: Aid and Human Security After the 2004 Tsunami.”Development in Practice Vol.20, no. 1 2010: 70-84. [Link]
• Sato, Jin. “Democratic Turn of Resource Governance in Japan: Prewar and Postwar Efforts for Integration in Resource Policy.” Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate Change. Edited by A.Sumi, K.Fukushi, and A.Hiramatsu: Springer, 2010: 309-316. [Link]
• Sato, Jin, Hiroaki Shiga, Takaaki Kobayashi, and Hisahiro Kondoh. “How Do “Emerging” Donors Differ from “Traditional” Donors? Institutional Analysis of Foreign Aid in Cambodia.”JICA-RI Working Paper, no. 2 2010. [Link]
• Sato, Jin. “Civil society engagement in Japan.” Engaging civil society: Emerging trends in democratic governance. Edited by S.G Cheema, and V.Popovski: United Nations University Press, 2010: 232-245. [Link]
• Kondoh, Hisahiro, Takaaki Kobayashi, Hiroaki Shiga, and Jin Sato. “Diversity and Transformation of Aid Patterns in Asia’s “Emerging Doners”.”JICA-RI Working Paper, no. 21 2010. [Link]
• Sato, Jin. “Formation of Resource Concept in Japan: Post-War Efforts in Knowledge Integration.”Sustainability Science Vol.2, no. 2 2007: 151-158. [Link]
• クロード・レヴィ＝ストロース. ““現状”の奥ゆきを捉える学問.”レヴィ＝ストロース講義: 平凡社 2005: 247-259. (in Japanese) [Link]
• Sato, Jin. “From “Natural Wealth” to Resources: Simplification of Nature in Asia.” Nature and Human Communities. Edited by Takeshi Sasaki. Tokyo: Springer, 2004: 111-122.
• Sato, Jin. “Informational Basis of Policy Judgments: The Case of Royal Forest Department in Thailand.” People and Forest: Policy and Local Reality in Southeast Asia, the Russian Far East, and Japan. Edited by Makoto Inoue, and Hiroshi Isozaki: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003: 169-185.
• Sato, Jin. “Public Land for the People: Institutional Basis of Community Forestry in Thailand.”Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Vol.32, no. 2 2003: 329-346.
• Sato, Jin. “Karen and the Land in Between: Public and Private Enclosure of Forests in Thailand.” Conservation and Mobile Indigenous Peoples: Displacement, Forced Settlement and Sustainable Development. Edited by Dawn Chatty, and Marcus Colchester, Studies in Forced Migration. New York: Berghahn Books, 2002: 277-295.
• Sato, Jin. “People in Between: Conversion and Conservation of Forest Lands in Thailand.”Development and Change 31, no. 1 2000: 155-177.

Conference

• Sato, Jin. “Sustainability Inverted: How control of natural resources turns into the control of people.”, February 27 2024, Columbia University Climate School.
• Sato, Jin. “Sustainability Inverted: How control of natural resources turns into the control of people.”, February 27 2024, Columbia University Climate School.
• Sato, Jin. “Does Area Studies Matter? Further thoughts on Asian Studies “Inside-out”.” Presented at the International Conference on Research and Development of Global Asia, September 9 2022, Lund University.
• Sato, Jin. “After Competition: From Self-Reliance to Dependencies in Resource Governance.” Presented at the Agrarian Transformations and Ontological Challenge in Southeast – South Asia: Resources, Peoples and Motions, November 13 2021.
• Sato, Jin. “Japanese Perspective on Poverty and Rural Revitalization.” Presented at the Global Poverty and Rural Revitalization: Challenges and Experiences, October 12 2021, China Agricultural University(ONLINE).
• Sato, Jin. “Pivotal Moments in Japanese ODA: Circa 1950s–2010s.” Presented at the The Asia Center and Asia Development Institute (ADI), Soul National University(ONLINE), April 16 2021.
• Sato, Jin. “Asian Studies Inside-Out.” Presented at the Global Asias: A Trans-Pacific Dialogue between University of Tokyo and Rutgers University, ONLINE, February 26 2021.
• Sato, Jin. “Sustainability Inverted: How control of nature turn into control of people.” Presented at the Conversation on the Environment, Responsible Energy, And Life (CEREAL), Princeton University, April 14 2020.
• Sato, Jin. “Sustainability Inverted: How control of nature turn into control of people.” Presented at the Tokyo Forum 2019, The University of Tokyo, December 3 2019.
• Sato, Jin. “Long-term impact of Japanese ODA to Southeast Asia.” Presented at the Invited Lecture, Leiden University, May 25 2018.

Magazine Articles

• Sato, Jin. “The Future of Development Cooperation: Preventing Problems Rather than Solving Them.”Discuss Japan, 86 (2025.1). [Link]

Newspaper

• Jin, Sato. “Consider pros,cons of reforestation.” INTERNATIONAL Herald Tribune October 24 2001.