Japan and Singapore in the World Economy: Japan's Economic Advance into Singapore 1870-1965

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ISBN: 9780415192361 | 0415192366
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/17/1999

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Using a variety of published and unpublished, this is the first work to examine Japan's economic activities in Singapore, analysing the role of Japanese prostitutes, Kobe's overseas Chinese and the Lee Kwan Yew regime's policy towards Japan.

List of plates and maps

List of figures and tables

Abbreviations

xii

Explanatory notes

xiii

Preface and acknowledgements

Maps

Introduction

(6)

Emergence of Singapore and Japan in the world economy

(12)

Rise of Singapore as an international entrepot

(7)

Rise of modern Japan and Japanese emigration

(5)

Karayuki-san and Japan's economic advance into Singapore

(32)

Background to the emergence of prostitution in British Malaya

(11)

The role of karayuki-san in Japan's economic advance

(7)

Decline and abolition of Japanese prostitution

(8)

Concluding remarks

(3)

Japan's trade expansion into British Malaya: with special reference to Singapore

(43)

The overseas Chinese and the development of Japan's trade with British Malaya

(4)

Rise of the overseas Chinese merchants at Kobe and Japan's foreign trade

(5)

Chinese commercial networks

(5)

Japan's trade with British Malaya during World War I and the 1920s

(13)

Japan's trade with British Malaya in the 1930s

(12)

Concluding remarks

(3)

The rise and fall of the Japanese fisheries based in Singapore

(19)

Rise and growth of Japanese fisheries

(8)

The depression and the supremacy of the Taichong Kongsi

103

(6)

The Japanese fisheries on the decline in the late 1930s

109

(2)

Concluding remarks

111

(2)

Japan's economic activities in Syonan

113

(34)

The outbreak of the Pacific War and the Japanese in Syonan

115

(1)

Currency and banks under Japanese rule

116

(2)

Fisheries and the Eifuku Sangyo Koshi

118

(3)

Commercial activities

121

(8)

Manufacturing sector

129

(10)

Karayuki-san, ryotei and comfort stations

139

(5)

Concluding remarks

144

(3)

Japan's return to Singapore in the post-war period

147

(33)

International factors in the return of Japan to Southeast Asia

148

(8)

The resumption of Japanese economic activities in Singapore

156

(4)

Singapore's expectations for Japanese co-operation in industrialisation

160

(6)

Japanese firms in Singapore in the second half of the 1950s

166

(11)

Concluding remarks

177

(3)

The blood-debt issue and Japan's economic advance

180

(27)

Policy for import-substitution industrialisation

182

(2)

The reparations issue and the Lee regime's policy towards Japanese firms

184

(7)

Japanese capital investment in Singapore in the first half of the 1960s

191

(13)

Concluding remarks

204

(3)

Conclusion

207

(16)

Japan's economic advance before 1965

207

(6)

Singapore and Japan's economic advance since 1965

213

(10)

Notes

223

(16)

Bibliography

239

(30)

Index

269

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