Professor of Strategy and International Business, Konan University, Japan

Specialty:

Strategy and international business, Strategic alliance and M&A,

Chinese business studies, etc.

Previous positions:

Visiting Professor in charge of international business courses at the MBA Center of the School of Business at Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Contract Professor at the Institute of Business Administration at Sun Yat-sen University, China.

Visiting Professor in charge of EMBA program at Tunghai University, Taiwan.

Visiting Professor in charge of Master's Program at National Taichung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

Visiting Fellow, University of Reading, UK.

Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds, UK.

Career:

1. International Business Administration:

Employed by a trading and consulting company for 20 years.

Currently employed as a consultant at several companies.

Former Member of the International Business Committee of the Osaka Chamber of

Commerce and Industry.

Former Chairman of the Working Group of the International Business, Committee of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Supported many Japanese companies regarding business development in China and other Asian countries from the standpoint of business administration strategy.

Responsible for extensive international business administration operations such as investigation and planning as well as the establishment, management and unification of overseas subsidiaries.

Regular research trips abroad (approximately every three months) providing business administration guidance in the overseas subsidiaries of Japanese companies.

Familiar with the practical application of business administration theory in the field.

Experience in organizing educational training sessions for executive-level employees and overseas representatives who are in charge of international business in companies run by Japanese, Chinese and ethnic Chinese executives.

2. Chinese Experience:

Fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Experience as a Visiting Professor for EMBA/MBA program at many Universities, especially in China and Taiwan.

A thesis based on an EMBA/MBA case study originally written in Chinese has been posted in PKU Business Review (November, 2007) published by the Business School of Beijing University.

3. Personal History:

Born in Tokyo. Lived in Beijing for 13 years as a child due to parents’ overseas posting.

Including both teaching and business experience, resident in China and other countries for over 25 years in total.

One of very few bilingual Japanese researchers who has deep first-hand knowledge of China and Chinese run businesses.

4. Related Experience:

Invited to take responsibility for a NHK radio program called Business Chinese,

in which Chinese language instruction for Japanese business people is combined with

Business Studies topics. April to September 2011 & April to May 2012.

(In Japan, NHK is the equivalent of the BBC in the U.K.)

Regular contributor to a weekly business newsletter, SankeiBiz-i, issued by the Sankei

Newspaper Group. Since September 2010 to April 2013.

Main publications:

T. Sugita (1996), Risk Management for Chinese Businesses, Diamond.

T. Sugita (2002), International Businesses and Economic Development in China,

Chuokeizai-sha.

S. Morokami and T. Sugita (1999), Import and Procurement from Asia, Dobunkan Shuppan.

Co-author of 15 books in association with other authors.

Approximately 80 published research papers.