Where Imperialism Could Not Reach examines the impact of the Japanese model of industrialization on China through a … China’s economic development, underpinned by shared position of China and Japan on the global semiperiphery and the pursuit … of labor-intensive industrialization focusing on improvements to labor quality. The dissertation also aims to demonstrate …

infrastructure that were the primary reasons for Japan's rapid industrialization. Drawing on a detailed analysis of Japan's main … industrial development of the country since the Meiji Restoration and shows the extent to which Japan's own urbanization played a … urbanizing region – the industrial belt that runs along the Pacific coast of Japan's main island, from Osaka Bay to Tokyo – this …