This book theoretically and empirically investigates the emergence of strong money demand in wartime Japan (1937 …-1945), its disappearance after the end of the war (1945-1949), and the reemergence of strong money demand in contemporary Japan … contemporary Japan, can now be interpreted in line with the above augmented theory. In the present, strong money demand at near …

is commonly thought that East Asian countries like China and Japan maintained a stance of so-called national isolation … between Qing China and Tokugawa Japan could have not been established for reasons such as guarantees of security; however …

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 …