and unprecedented codification of technical knowledge in Meiji Japan as a natural experiment, we show that this pattern … appeared in Japan only after the Japanese government codified as much technical knowledge as what was available in Germany in … Japan was unique among non-Western countries in successfully industrializing during the first wave of globalization …

rare. Our methodology avoids look-ahead bias and addresses semantic shifts. War discourse positively predicts market …-grade corporate bonds. The predictive power of war discourse increases in more recent time periods …

returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the distribution of regional population in Japan …

this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian … colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan began to survey and register private land in its island colonies, an … effort that was completed in Palau but interrupted elsewhere by World War II. Within Micronesia robust economic development …