Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The early modern Japanese economy -- The failure of the temp? : reforms and the opening of Yokohama -- The first merchant of Yokohama -- Bakumatsu Japan's trade and Yokohama's place in that trade -- Yokohama and its hinterland -- The producers of...

Anti-Japanese boycotts as trade barriers in China -- The drastic decline of Japanese exports to the United States -- British Commonwealth discrimination against Japanese trade -- Japan-Netherlands trade squabbles -- Latin America : the new trade frontier -- Japan's accession to GATT -- Applying...