Conflict of opinion.--Prologue, by O. Yoshitake.--Traditional expansionism, by R. T. Pollard.--Response to western aggression, by H. Kublin.--A question of timing and not of goals, by W. G. Beasley.--Lingering militarism, by J. M. Maki.--The Confucian world order, by M. F. Nelson.--Requirements...

Throughout the period 1871-1938, the average British worker was better off than the average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For the aggregate economy, the real wage gap was about the same as the labour productivity gap, but again there were important...