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 … Analects. A top leader in Japan’s business community for decades, Shibusawa contributed to founding the Tokyo Stock Exchange …

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the … theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese … elaboration of a new conceptual framework, but it soon proved unable to directly explain Japan’s experience by that central …

broad problems of growth and regional economy, focusing on economic developments in Japan and Korea. Part 2 discusses trade … and foreign investment in Japan, mainly on an empirical basis. Part 3 then examines various public economic policies using … the Japan Association for Applied Economics (JAAE) and the Korean Economics and Business Association (KEBA), and include …

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 …

and housing, researched from an advanced perspective of comparative history in Japan. The aim of this book is to make …-Japanese War to the reforms following World War II, by focusing on the conflict between landowners and peasants in Japan. The … second chapter examines the construction of urban housing following Japan’s defeat in World War II, focusing on the …

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 …

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose … Japan, China, and Britain, and four short book reviews on recent academic works published in Japanese and English. The four … a district of Nagano Prefecture (central Japan) from the 1870s to the 1900s and the subsequent shift from firewood to …

The main focus of this edited volume is an examination of dynamic relationships among Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and the … characteristic of the Japanese colonial empire was the close economic and geographic relations among Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and 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 …