Publications

Alongside accounting and finance work for foreign-owned luxury brands, the firm maintains an active research practice — peer-reviewed papers, conference presentations and contributions to professional journals. A selection follows.

Luxury industry research

Peer-reviewed papers

  • May 2025“Luxury Groups’ Expansion into Cosmetics: An Analysis Based on the Characteristics of Prestige Cosmetics and of the Luxury Industry”
    Journal of the Japan Fashion Business Association, Vol. 30, pp. 12–20 (sole author)
  • May 2024“Management Strategy in the Luxury Industry: A Comparison of LVMH, Richemont, Kering and Hermès”
    Journal of the Japan Fashion Business Association, Vol. 29, pp. 1–15 (sole author)

Conference presentations

  • December 2025“The Relationship Between the Luxury Fashion and Cosmetics Businesses and Its Outlook: The Kering–L’Oréal Transaction”
    Japan Fashion Business Association (Bunka Gakuen University)
  • November 2024“The Evolution of Strategy in the Luxury Industry and Its Outlook”
    Japan Academy of Business Strategy (Waseda University)
  • July 2024“Characteristics of Accounting and Finance in the Luxury Industry”
    Japan Fashion Business Association, Luxury Study Group (Waseda University)
  • November 2023“A Strategic Comparison of the Luxury Industry’s Big Three: LVMH, Richemont and Kering”
    Japan Fashion Business Association (Bunka Gakuen University)

Accounting and finance × AI and DX

  • September 2024Paper: “The Impact of Generative AI and RPA on Accounting and FP&A Work”
    Japan Association of Management Accounting (sole author, non-refereed)
  • September 2024Presentation: “The Impact of Generative AI and RPA on Accounting and FP&A Work”
    Japan Association of Management Accounting (Chuo University)

Books and professional journals

  • May 2026“The Relationship Between the Luxury Fashion and Cosmetics Businesses and Its Outlook”
    Hiroaki Tamura, GAKKAI PRESS, Vol. 8, pp. 3–6 (Japan Fashion Business Association)
  • January 2024“Luxury Brand Business Strategy and Fashion Law”
    Hiroaki Tamura and Kazufumi Yasuda, The Invention, January 2024, pp. 34–39 (Japan Institute of Invention and Innovation)

Teaching, lectures and course development

  • 2023Demonstration teaching for the Business Accounting course at Globis University Graduate School of Management
  • October 2023Lecture on “Getting to an MBA at Oxford” at a QS study-abroad event for MBA candidates

Media and interviews

  • October 2023NESTBOWL interview: “What is a finance role at a foreign-owned luxury brand, and what skills does it call for?”
  • July 2023Reporting on the current state and outlook of SAP as a modern accounting system, based on interviews with SAP staff

Academic memberships

  • Japan Association of Management Accounting (since 2023)
  • Japan Fashion Business Association (since 2023)
  • Japan Academy of Business Strategy (since 2023)

Other

  • Completed the University of Oxford Executive MBA while working for a major luxury group, travelling to the UK throughout the programme
  • Registered accountant, International Accounting and Sustainability Disclosure Talent Network (registered as a specialist with practical IFRS experience)

For advisory work grounded in this research, see Luxury Industry Advisory.