Autore: Yoji Koyama

Yoji Koyama is Professor Emeritus at Niigata University. A graduate from the University of Tokyo, he was a visiting scholar in Belgrade from October 1978 to March 1980, under the Yugoslav government fellowship scheme. In 1984 and 1986, Koyama conducted field surveys about self-management in the former Yugoslavia as a member of a study group. He is a leading Japanese specialist on Central and Eastern Europe, and on comparative economic systems. He has published widely in Japanese and English — in 1996, he authored a seminal book on the Yugoslav economic experience, A Study of Self-managed Socialism: Dynamics of the Regime of the 1974 Constitution in the Former Yugoslavia (in Japanese), and in 2003, he authored South Eastern Europe in Transition: A Quest for Stabilization of the Region after the Breakup of the Former Yugoslavia (in English). Professor Koyama is currently a Member of the Japan Society for Russian and East European Studies, the Japan Society for Comparative Economic Studies, and the European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES). He holds a Master of Science in International Relations from the University of Tokyo and a PhD in Economics from Hosei University.