the US, Japan and the major European countries in order to estimate the effect of energy prices on energy … significantly positively correlated with innovation in both Japan and the EU. A tentative interpretation might be that a rise in …. Furthermore, the tax ratio, which has consistently risen in Japan and especially the EU, could be seen as an indicator for …

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 …

From firewood to coal : deforestation and the development of the silk reeling industry in modern Japan / S. Sugiyama … and Izumi Yamada -- The government railways and the procurement of railway sleepers in prewar Japan / Asuka Yamaguchi …