Takeshi Hamashita is Professor of Chinese economic history. Currently he is Professor and Dean of School of Asia Pacific Studies, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Hamashita taught in the Department of Economics at Hitotsubashi University from 1979 to 1981. From 1982 to 1999 he worked at the Institute of Oriental Culture, Tokyo University. After 2000, he was at Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Kyoto University and then was at Faculty of International Communication, Ryukoku University. He has been at Sun Yat-sen University from 2007 to the present.
His field covers modern and contemporary Chinese economy, overseas Chinese history, East Asian regional history, Ryukyu-Okinawa history studies.