The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific WarJapan's emergence as an economic superpower - one whose trade surplus with the rest of the world stood in 1993 at $140 billion - has been neither sudden nor entirely economically driven. Rather it is the result of a centuries-old process. Japan's understanding of the wider world, of trade and of other relationships has expanded in stages, each determined by both internal and external factors. |
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Early Meiji Modernisation and the Development of | 90 |
Growth and Transformation in Japans Trade | 115 |
The Role of Public Policy | 138 |
the Foundations | 176 |
The Achievement of International Competitiveness | 201 |
Markets and marketing | 216 |
Building the Technological Infrastructure | 235 |
Technology and Trade in the Strategic Industries | 268 |
Technology and Trade in the Commercial Sector | 316 |
The Imperial Background and the Case of Taiwan | 335 |
The Economic Expansion of Japan in Manchuria | 366 |
Japans Trade and Direct Investment in the Chinese | 410 |
Conclusions | 426 |
Index | 461 |
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achieved activities agricultural American Asia Asian Bakufu Britain British C. R. Boxer capital China Chinese colonial commercial companies competitiveness contemporary Cotton Industry Deshima domestic Dutch early Meiji East economic engineering established Europe European expansion factors foreign trade Fukuzawa Yukichi gold standard growth import substitution improvement India innovation inter-war investment Japan Japanese economy Japanese trade Keizai labour London machinery major Manchuria manufacturing Matsukata Meiji period Meiji Restoration ment merchants military MITI Mitsubishi Mitsui modern Nagasaki naval Nihon Okura organisation output political population Portuguese private sector problems production progress raw cotton raw materials rice role Russo-Japanese war Shanghai share shipbuilding significant silk skills Source specialised spinning steel strategy structure sugar supply Table Taiwan Takahashi tariff technical textile textile industry tion Tokyo Toyo traditional treaty treaty ports University Press western yarn zaibatsu
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Page 263 - in economic development was Alfred Marshall, esp. in his Industry and Trade, ch. 3. The link between metallurgy, standardisation and mass-production is discussed in James P. Womack et al., The Machine that Changed the World, New York: Rawson Associates, 1990, ch. 2. 44.
Page 141 - of Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation. The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time, Boston: Beacon Press, 1957.
Page 370 - Communications have acquired such vast significance that it may be truly said that they constitute today the most tangible evidence of sovereignty . . . left in the hands of aliens, surrounded by their own troops, what you have is defacto military occupation . . .‘ BL Putnam Weale, The Truth about China
Page 68 - The Dutch have the excellent national characteristic of investigating matters with great patience until they can get to the very bottom. For the sake of such research they have devised surveying instruments as well as telescopes and helioscopes with which to examine the sun, moon, and stars.
Page 26 - 83. CR Boxer, A Portuguese Embassy to Japan (1644—1647), London: Kegan Paul, 1928, pp. 63—4. 84. A Copy of the Japan Diary Received per a Danish Ship, July 18, 1674, appendix to Kaempfer, The History of Japan. 85. Further details of life in Deshima are in Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire, pp. 232—3; for a French account by hearsay but full of insights, see Voyages de Mr.
Page 259 - Almost every invention seeks, as it were, refuge in England, and is there brought to perfection.
Page 370 - Origin and Development, London: Arnold, 1907. This source has a valuable appendix of the legal instruments governing railway concessions. SH Chou, ‘Railway development and economic growth in Manchuria', China Quarterly, no. 45, Jan—March 1971, pp. 57—84. On the political significance of railways, a contemporary observer
Page 32 - without any assistance from foreign countries, as long as Arts and Agriculture are follow'd by the Natives.
Page 20 - London: Kegan Paul, 1925—6, vol. 2, p. 585; Cordier, Histoire Générale, vol. 3, p. 199; Sir Ernest M. Satow, The Voyage of Captain John Saris to Japan, 1613, London:
Page 7 - . . . e ha per Mario Polo que falava moderamente das cousas Orientas de Reyno Cathayo, e assi da grande Ilha Cypangao, veio a fantaziar que per este mar Oceano Occidental se podia navegar tanto tie que fossem dar nesta
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| Titre | The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War |
| Auteur | Christopher Howe |
| Édition | illustrée, réimprimée |
| Éditeur | C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1850655383, 9781850655381 |
| Longueur | 471 pages |
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