this informative report on currency, traveler's checks, money wiring, ATMs, banks, and credit cards in Japan …

This book, the first full account of Japan's financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years … before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than … Europe, at the center of the story. Focusing on the fall of liberalism in Japan in late 1931 and the global politics of money …