"This book analyses the relationship between technological innovation and economic development in Japan before World … patent system. The large amount of new inventions and patents in the period led to fast economic growth in Japan … understanding of Japan's economic development and industrial advancement at an early stage and provide pointers to developing …

or developing economies and to such advanced industrial countries as the United States and Japan. It provides a broad …

This book examines the economic and political rise of China from the perspective of Japan's economic development …. Beginning with Japan’s rise to statehood in the Kamakura Period (1185 to 1333) and detailing the evolution of its economy … through to 2018, parallels are drawn with the economic development of China. Many of the challenges Japan faced in the first …