“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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

1. Environmental Policy Evaluations in Japan: Concepts and Practice -- 2. Ex Ante Policy Evaluation of the Vehicle Type …Focusing on air pollution, energy efficiency and climate change, this book provides a unique introduction to Japan … the current status of RIAs in Japan, and it analyzes the NOx-PM Act, which prohibits the use of old and polluting vehicles …

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 …