. He received his PhD in history from the University of Washington, USA; was a Fulbright Fellow at Rikkyo University, Japan … Japan, where the pursuit of profit was considered beneath the dignity of the samurai elite. Seeking to overturn the Tokugawa …-stock corporations to Japan as institutions of economic development. As the entrepreneurial head of Tokyo’s Dai-Ichi Bank, he helped …

an influential policy maker. Dr. Osamu Shimomura is one of the most eminent economists in Japan. He entered the Ministry … pioneer works in macroeconomics, but also suits the economic conditions of Japan. Shimomura extends the principle of effective …

This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an … industrious revolution in the early modern period, and how the fruits of the Industrious Revolution are what have supported Japan … since the eighteenth century, improving living standards and leading to the formation of the work ethic of modern Japan. The …

Part I Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan’s High-Growth Era -- 1 The Japanese Apparel Industry and Consumer Society … from 1950 to the 1970s (Susumu Ishii) -- 2 The Legislative Process of Automobile Exhaust Emissions Control in Japan … Review of Woo Jong-Won, “Mibun no Torihiki” to Nihon no Koyō Kankō (“Transactions over Status” and Japan's Employment …

“A fascinating, wholly new, account of the emergence of Japan as a major player in the global economy and politics in … banker, assembled the loans that Japan required for its war with Russia in 1905. This book covers a fascinating tale of a … Japan.” -Avner Offer, Chichele Professor Emeritus of Economic History, University of Oxford …

Grundlagen -- Gesamtwirtschaftliche Megatrends und die Aussicht auf dynamische Zukunftsindustrien in Japan … -- Identifikation von Zukunftstechnologien in Japan -- Finanzierung von Zukunftstechnologien in Japan -- Mensch und Gesundheit -- Life … Sciences und Biotechnologie in Japan -- Die japanische Pharmaindustrie -- Der Medizintechnikmarkt in Japan -- Miniaturisierung …

modernising Japan can throw light on the paths that industrialisation was eventually to take across the globe. It has long been … what has been called ‘the single most important debate in recent global history’. Japan, as the only non-Western country to …-interpreting Japanese economic history in the light of the debate, so arguing that global historians and scholars of Japan have in fact much …

of the twentieth century, focusing on the example of Japan. In the past hundred years, medicine has gone from being a …

This book discusses Japan’s long-term economic recession and provides remedies for that recession that are useful for … other Asian economies. The book addresses why Japan’s economy has stagnated since the bursting of its economic bubble in the … caught in a liquidity trap. This book argues that Japan’s economic stagnation stems from a vertical “investment-saving” (IS …