and Europe, using Japan's Tokugawa era (1603-1868) as a benchmark from which to consider public goods provision in Prussia …, China, and England. Japan is similar in size to a European country and linked to China through shared beliefs and practices …

Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern …" in early modern economies from the perspective of Japanese socioeconomic history during Tokugawa era (1603-1868), and by … comparing those cases with others from Europe and China's economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry …

-industrial Japanese history and depicts pre-modern Japan from a macroscopic point of view, showing how the industrious revolution came …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 …

only in the post-war history in Japan but also in high growth economies in recent East Asia. …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 …

"This fully revised and updated third edition of Japanese Economic Development looks at Japan's economic history from … the nineteenth century through to World War II, recasting analysis of Japan's economic past in the light fresh theoretical … perspectives in the study of economic history and development. Francks draws out the historical roots of the institutions and …

History at the London School of Economics, UK. She has published widely on the economic and social history of modern Japan … of Commercial Morality in Japan -- Chapter 3 – National Interest, Reputation and Economic Development in an ‘Infant …This enlightening text analyses the origins of Western complaints, prevalent in the late nineteenth century, that Japan …