Japanese Industrialisation: Historical and Cultural Perspectives

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ISBN: 9780415244442 | 0415244447
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/5/2001

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Japan's escape from colonialism and its subsequent industrialization has created an economy to rival that of the United States. This comprehensive volume examines how this rapid change of fortunes occurred, and the impact it has had on East Asia and the world at large.

Prologue. Anxious visions in Meiji Japan
The Beginnings
The dynamics of the Tokugawa economy (1603-1868)
Pax Tokugawa - the 250 years peace
Economy and population
Moral economy - aspects of social structure
Limited change
Japan in context - Tokugawa dynamics and the `Western model'
An outline of Meiji industrialisation (1868-1912)
Economic performance
Japan in context
Interpretations
Synthesis
Themes
The foreign influence
Introduction
The long prelude
Screening the world
The moving frontier - Layers of influence
Technology transfer: mechanisms
Technology transfer: case studies
Hakurai to Hakugaku: an interpretation of success
The state and economic development
Introduction - the contested state
The costs of continuity
Strategy - the debate over foreign capital
Financing industrial change
Education, training and technology
The state and the entrepreneur
The Expansion of Japan 1912-1973
An outline of inter-war economic development (1912-1937)
Economic performance
Japan in context
Interpretations
Synthesis
Themes
Empire, war and occupation
The 1920s
Depression outcomes
Empire and the economy
War
Occupation and institutional innovation
Conclusions - the political economy of Japan
Recovery and growth in the Golden Age (1952-1973)
Supergrowth: Japan in the Golden Age
Recovery
Economic growth
Industrial policy and technology transfer
Turning points
Modern Japan
An outline of recent economic change
Economic performance
Shocks and structures: growth recurring
Diminishing growth - the greying of Japan
Japan in context
Interpretations
Synthesis
Themes
The renewed expansion of Japan
The forces of expansion
Patterns of expansion
Institutions of expansion: the Japanese transnational corporation
Technology and institutions - Asian impacts
Pacific partnership: the history of the multifunction polis
Into the 1990s: Japan and Asia-Pacific cooperation

Resolutions - China and Japan
Governance and self-strengthening: Japan and China
Sequencing: China and the modern world economy
Progress by partition - sites of Chinese endeavour
Penultimate resolutions - Japan and China
Back to the future The new sites of endeavour
Systems clash - Japan and the USA
Sam's sequence: climacteric concerns
Historical interludes and ironies
The global platform: trade and investment
Contrasts 1 - enterprise cultures
Contrasts 2 - science, technology and the defence imperative
Conclusions: climacteric causation
Reflections on Japan
Social causation and capitalist maturity
Fundamentals: late development and technology transfer
Dynamics - cultural engineering
The culture of enterprise
Japan in the new climacteric
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