Yutaka Kurihara

Yutaka Kurihara is a professor of international economics at Aichi University, Japan. He was a lecturer and associate professor at Koryo International College in Japan. He has taught economics courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. He majored in international economics, finance, and digital economy. He has published about 120 papers and some of them are in refereed international journals. His recently published books are Global Information Technology and Competitive Financial Alliances (2006, IGI Publishing), Economics Declaration (2006), Business & Policy Design in the Globalization (2003), and Intellectual Skills for Freshman (2003, in Japanese). He was a visiting fellow at the National Institute of Multimedia Education and the Institute for Advanced Research at Nagoya University, Japan. He has been the executive director of the Japan Association of Monetary Economics since 2006.

Publications

Information Technology and Economic Development
Information Technology and Economic Development
Yutaka Kurihara, Sadayoshi Takaya, Hisashi Harui, Hiroshi Kamae. © 2008. 404 pages.
Information technology has already changed the face of many activities in organizational, economic, and societal domains, and holds strong promise for future development....
Spreading Use of Digital Cash
Spreading Use of Digital Cash
Yutaka Kurihara. © 2008. 7 pages.
Approximately 10 years have passed since the words such as digital cash, digital money, electronic money, and e-cash have been introduced. Progress has increased rapidly in the...
Global Information Technology and Competitive Financial Alliances
Global Information Technology and Competitive Financial Alliances
Yutaka Kurihara, Sadayoshi Takaya, Nobuyoshi Yamori. © 2006. 321 pages.
The IT revolution has made it possible for financial enterprises to become allies with each other, and to increase efficiency and profit as well as to develop more fruitful...
Spreading Use of Digital Cash
Spreading Use of Digital Cash
Yutakai Kurihara. © 2006. 5 pages.
Approximately 10 years have passed since the words such as digital cash, digital money, electronic money, and e-cash have been introduced. Progress has increased rapidly in the...
Payment Systems of Financial Institutions: Current State and Future Prospects
Payment Systems of Financial Institutions: Current State and Future Prospects
Yutaka Kurihara, Shigeaki Ohtsuka. © 2006. 13 pages.
Economic activity is always accompanied by payment. Payment systems, which are the subject of much recent discussion, are an indispensable part of the infrastructure that...
The Role and Future of Local Currency and IT
The Role and Future of Local Currency and IT
Yutaka Kurihara, Akio Fukushima. © 2006. 11 pages.
The use of local currency has been spreading gradually since the 1990s. It has been introduced by nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and similar groups in some countries around the...
The Spreading Use of Digital Cash and Its Problems
The Spreading Use of Digital Cash and Its Problems
Yutaka Kurihara. © 2005. 14 pages.
It has been several years since the words “digital cash” and other related terms were introduced. Although e-commerce has been growing, digital cash has not been a focus of much...