banker, assembled the loans that Japan required for its war with Russia in 1905. This book covers a fascinating tale of a …“A fascinating, wholly new, account of the emergence of Japan as a major player in the global economy and politics in … Japan.” -Avner Offer, Chichele Professor Emeritus of Economic History, University of Oxford …

returns, random growth, and locational fundamentals. To do so, we examine the distribution of regional population in Japan …