Issues of bonds increased in inter-war Japan, the main investors in bonds being banks because demand for loans declined in this period. Banks that were more tolerant of risks (that is, whose capital ratio was higher) made a larger amount of loans, which were riskier than bonds. While national...

During a visit from Washington, Dr Sebastian Swann addressed an International/Japanese Studies symposium on 28 April 1999 under the title Reflections on the Allied Occupation of Japan. Dr Swann who has recently been involved in translating the work of Professor Eiji Takemae, a leading Japanese...

May 1985 the Japanese government passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (hereafter referred to as EEO Law) which took effect from April 1986. The enactment of the EEO Law has aroused much controversy and debate unprecedented in the history of lbour legislation in Japan. It prohibits...

A Suntory-Toyota Symposium was held at the International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines on 10 December 1993 under the chairmanship of Dr Antony Best. The discussion focussed on 'Aspects of Interwar China' and Dr Tao's paper was one of those presented. Dr Wenzhao Tao who was...

Steeds: David Davies, a young member of a prominent Welsh commercial/industrial family, spent the period between October 1904 and January 1905 in Japan, Korea and North China. His diary of the journey presents interesting background on conditions in Japan during what were crucial months in the...

Daniels examined British media views of Japan by sampling local and national dailies, with emphasis on The Times and The Economist and magazines like Punch, The Graphic and The Illustrated London News. While the metropolitan papers were broadly supportive, some provincial journalists, favouring...

Hoare: Both North and South Korea claim victory in the Korean War. Yet neither makes much of the ending of the war in July 1953, and both have had problems coming to terms with the reality of the war. The reality is that both suffered so much in a conflict that achieved little that formal...

Dr Lowe's paper was presented at a symposium organized under the auspices of the Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines on 15 May 1992 on the theme of the background to the San Francisco Treaty of 1951. Ambassador Chiba's paper is part of a series of lectures...