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 …

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 …

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 …

Written by fifteen leading academics from the Japan Society for International Development (JASID), this book undertakes … a review of Japan's economic development over the last 150 years, and seeks to clarify Japanese priorities in domestic …

theory of national development, written for agricultural developing countries pursuing industrialization and late …

industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward dislocation; and from the …