Takuji Kinkyo is a Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University. He received his PhD from the University of London. He previously worked as Director, International Department at Ministry of Finance Japan, and was a Visiting Lecturer at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is the coeditor of Global Financial Linkages and Economic Rebalancing in East Asia (World Scientific, 2013) and Financial Globalisation and Regionalismin East Asia (Routledge, 2014).