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	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Japan, Industrialization and Economic Growth
		The economic strains of emergent dualism were amplified by the slowing down of technological progress in the agricultural sector, which had exhaustively reaped the benefits due to regional diffusion from the Southwest to the Northeast of best practice Tokugawa rice cultivation.
		Japan's thrust to imperial expansion was inflamed by the growing instability of the geopolitical and international trade regime of the later 1920s and early 1930s.
		The remainder of this appendix is devoted to introducing the reader to the vast literature on quantitative analysis of Japan's economic development from the 1880s until 1970, a nine decade period during which Japanese income per capita converged towards income per capita levels in Western Europe.
	www.eh.net /encyclopedia/article/mosk.japan.final (4119 words)

	Economic history of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Economic history of Japan is one of the most studied for its spectacular growth, first in the period from the late nineteenth century that saw Japan become a world power and then again after the devastation of the Second World War when the island nation rose to become the world's second largest economy.
		Japan was considered as a country immensely rich in precious metals, mainly owing to Marco Polo's accounts of gilded temples and palaces, but also due to the relative abundance of surface ores characteristic of a volcanic country, before large-scale deep-mining became possible in Industrial times.
		Japan's economic growth in the 1960s and 1970s was based on the rapid expansion of heavy manufacturing in such areas as automobiles, steel, shipbuilding, chemicals, and electronics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economic_history_of_Japan (3875 words)

	History of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Traditional Japanese legend maintains that Japan was founded in 600 BC by the Emperor Jimmu, a direct descendant of the sun goddess and ancestor of the present ruling imperial family.
		Japan went to the peace conference at Versailles in 1919 as one of the great military and industrial powers of the world and received official recognition as one of the "Big Five" of the new international order.
		The Japanese invasion of China in 1937 followed Japan's signing of the "anti-Comintern pact" with Nazi Germany the previous year and was part of a chain of developments culminating in the Japanese attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.
	www.historyofnations.net /asia/japan.html (1467 words)

	Japan (11/06)
		Japanese legend maintains that Japan was founded in 600 BC by the Emperor Jimmu, a direct descendant of the sun goddess and ancestor of the present ruling imperial family.
		Manchukuo was dissolved, and Manchuria was returned to China; Japan renounced all claims to Formosa; Korea was occupied and divided by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.; southern Sakhalin and the Kuriles were occupied by the U.S.S.R.; and the U.S. became the sole administering authority of the Ryukyu, Bonin, and Volcano Islands.
		Japan's economic engagement with its neighbors is increasing, as evidenced by the conclusion of an EPA with Singapore and the Philippines, and its ongoing negotiations for EPAs with Thailand and Malaysia.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/4142.htm (5052 words)

	Powelson Chapter 3 - Japan: Institutions and Economic Growth
		Japan's current face toward the world, one of government-business liaison ("Japan Inc."), is not a reliable indicator of the degree to which the Japanese economy is culturally liberal.
		The history of business enterprise anywhere is a struggle between those who would participate in it businesses, customers, suppliers, and creditors — and ruling groups who would set the terms and tax the benefits.
		That Japan's economic growth rate since 1868 has been greater than that of the West or of underdeveloped areas is much documented and widely agreed upon.
	www.quaker.org /tqe/wealth-and-poverty/03japan.htm (6009 words)

	Japan's Economic Expansion into Manchuria and China in World War Two
		Japan as a have-not country felt the distribution of natural resources in the world was unfair and in Manchuria and China proper saw its opportunity to right the balance.
		Japan's troubles in Manchuria began in September 1927 when the Kuomintang announced it would not respect any agreement it was not a party to.
		Japan was able to invest in railroads, highways, hydro-electric plants and improve the area's harbours and navigable rivers.
	www.historyorb.com /asia/japan_economic_expansion.shtml (1166 words)

	History of Japan
		The second successor, Tokugawa Ieyasu, succeeded Hideyoshi's unifed Japan, and sat the throne of shogun in 1603.
		Japan was suddenly dragged out to the stage of world-wide imperialistic politics.
		In this era, Japan was a new kid on the block in world-wide imperialism, The leaders of the government frequently visited western countries, to learned how to govern and grow the nation.
	www2.kanawa.com /japan/history.html (4289 words)

	Economics History
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		Essays on the Economic History of the Argentine Republic.
	www.kipnotes.com /EconomicsHistory.htm (3034 words)

	H-Net Review: James C. Baxter on The Economic Emergence of Modern Japan
		In "Economic Change in the Nineteenth Century," he is quick to raise doubts about the applicability of quantitative methods to the study of nineteenth-century Japan, because what he would regard as dependable statistics on a national scale are lacking.
		Japan became a world economic power by taking a number of steps that may need to be repeated, mutatis mutandis, for it to overcome the challenges it faces at the turn of the millennium.
		Modern economic growth, they are persuaded, depends in its initial phase on accelerated growth of the traditional economy; Japan was fortunate in that its agricultural and traditional industrial sectors had the capacity to grow.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30676889470438 (4403 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Economic History of Japan,1600-1990: v. 1 (Economic History of Japan): Books: Akira Hayami,Osamu ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This multi-volume series of modern Japanese economic history encompasses both the institutional aspects of Japanese economic development, and the results of econometric and cliometric research to place the key moments of Japanese economic history in a more general context.
		Volume one, The Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, focuses on the period from the start of the seventeenth century, when a discernible consumer population begins to form within cities, to the 1870s when the start of rapid industrialization is witnessed.
		Seventeenth century Japan is shown to be a society that was almost immediately able to provide key components of a market economy, such as communications, transport, and currency, so that economic laws began to operate spontaneously.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Economic-History-Japan-1600-1990-v/dp/0198289057 (786 words)

	Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859
		In his introduction the noted demographic and economic historian Akira Hayami firmly characterizes the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) as the first period in Japanese history when a national economy was created, when market related behavior came to dominate life in the most remote regions of Japan.
		One of the traditional pictures of Tokugawa Japan is that it was almost completely isolated from the rest of the world, save for a window onto the west at Dejima in Nagasaki harbor where Dutch traders were allowed to reside.
		Carl Mosk is Professor of Economics at the University of Victoria and the author of a number of books on Japanese economic and demographic history.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0863.shtml (554 words)

	Japan in Prophecy
		Japan has been able to utilise and build upon these inventions contributing to the overall good of the world economy.
		Indeed, Japan may have accounted for as much as one-third of the world's silver output at the end of the sixteenth century and beginning of the seventeenth century.12 (cp.
		The history of Japan in secular sources show that it has been a land of gold and silver, and that it has stood out as naval power of the 20th century.
	www.british-israel.ca /Japan.htm (4387 words)

	NEAS - Resources, Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Japan is only one of many industrialized economies to suffer a financial crisis in the past 15 years, but it has suffered the most from its crisis—as measured in lost output and investment opportunities, and in the direct costs of clean-up.
		The Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET) was established in April 1950 mainly for two purposes; (1) to promote the study of the history of economics, and the history of social and economic thought, and (2) to foster the international and internal exchange for its members.
		Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries of Japan, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan
	neas.miis.edu /resources-japan.html (8600 words)

	japanese economic history - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		...policy and Japanese economic development...state--Japan--History--20th century...focus and history of this policy...to divide Japanese growth into...emphasis on economic recovery...rewrite its economic history.
		Economic issues and objectives have dominated...in its aim of greater entr6e to the Japanese market-place, for Canadian businessmen...concerned with Canadian trade, diplomacy, history, and literature, but their works are...
		The Japanese Occupation of Malaya, 1941-1945: A Social and Economic History
	www.questia.com /search/japanese-economic-history (1696 words)

	Scholar focuses on history of modern Japan
		“Andrew Gordon addresses the complexities of modern Japan in a way that is both illuminating to fellow scholars and engaging to the general public,” said Andrew Bernstein, assistant professor of history.
		Gordon, the Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History at Harvard University, is director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
		He specializes in the economic history of modern Japan and is currently researching the making of the modern consumer in 20th-century Japan.
	www.lclark.edu /cgi-bin/shownews.cgi?1108495800.0 (296 words)

	Japan's Economic Turnaround
		Bankruptcies in Japan have risen, especially in retailing, services, and construction, due to low consumer demand and because of difficulties in obtaining loans from banks.
		That's why a big tax cut is quite likely for Japan, and this will signal the recovery of the Japanese economy, and when Japan recovers, the rest of East Asia will follow.
		The recent economic history of Japan and East Asia confirms this, but sadly, people don't learn the right lessons from history, not unless they first get some basic lessons in real economics.
	www.progress.org /archive/fold32.htm (722 words)

	JAPAN'S POSTWAR HISTORY
		Japan’s Postwar History is the only book that provides an integrated analysis of Japan’s social, political, and economic history from 1932 until the present day.
		Gary D. Allinson has substantially updated his work for a second edition that takes Japan from the bursting of the economic bubble through the long recession of the 1990s and up to 2003.
		The late Gary D. Allinson was Ellen Bayard Weedon Professor of East Asian Studies in the Department of History at the University of Virginia.
	www.cornellpress.cornell.edu /cup_detail.taf?ti_id=4162 (369 words)

	WWW-VL History Index
		Japan - A Country Study, from the Library of Congress
		Ancient Japan, to 710 A.D. Myth of the formation of Japan in 660 BC
		WWWVL History was established as HNSource on 6 March 1993.
	vlib.iue.it /history/asia/Japan/japan.html (448 words)

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		0362344125: An economic history of Italy from the fall of the Roman Empire to the beginning of the sixteen century
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	www.alibris.com /books/isbns/4429 (1030 words)

	Japanese Economic History \| History of the Japanese Economy \| Economic History of Japan \| Questia.com Online Library
		...Japan's escape from colonialism and its subsequent industrialization has created an economy to rival the that of the United States.
		Capitalistic...Moreover, it is the history of urbanization...formula of treating economic growth.
		Japan: Land and Men: An Account of the Japanese Land Reform Program, 1945-51 » Read Now
	www.questia.com /library/japanese-economic-history.jsp (645 words)

	SISEA 441 - Economic and Social History of Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Encyclopedias and dictionaries provide background information and can be used to identify key people, events and dates which can then be used as search terms for finding additional information.
		Major index to journals in the field of world history (excluding US and Canada) for the period 1450 to the present.
		Most of the primary sources dealing with early modern Japanese history available at the UW Libraries are published in Japanese.
	www.lib.washington.edu /subject/history/bi/sisea441 (722 words)

	Economic History
		The Recovery and Resurgence of the U.S. Economy, May 2006
		The Economic Histories of Countries in the Latin American Region
		The Economy and Economic History of the Republic of Georgia
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/econhist.htm (30 words)

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		Hayami 1998, ‘Japan in the eighteenth century: demography and economy’, in L. Blusse and F. Gaastra, eds, On the eighteenth century as a category of Asian history: van Leur in retrospect (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing)
		Honjo 1943, Economic theory and history of Japan in the Tokugawa Period (Tokyo: Maruzen; reprinted by Russell & Russell, New York, 1965)
		Takekoshi 1930, The economic aspects of the history of the civilization of Japan, 3 vols (George Allen & Unwin, London)
	www.oriental.cam.ac.uk /jbib/edoecon.html (1752 words)

	Amazon.com: Economic Growth in Prewar Japan: Books: Takafusa Nakamura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Interwar Economy of Japan : Colonialism, Depression, and Recovery, 1910-1940 (Japanese Economic History, 1600-1960, Vol.
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	www.amazon.com /Economic-Growth-Prewar-Takafusa-Nakamura/dp/0300024517 (691 words)

	Effective Exchange Rates in Japan, 1879-1938
		Existing studies of Japanese quantitative economic history have tended to use the dollar-yen bilateral exchange rate.
		A comparison of different indices suggests that the new data offer new insights into Japan’s economic history.
		Department of Economics, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut using
	ideas.repec.org /p/cam/camdae/9917.html (308 words)

	The history of Nihon koku (Japan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Hartford Web Publishing is not the author of the documents in World History Archives and does not presume to validate their accuracy or authenticity nor to release their copyright.
		The contemporary political history of Nihon koku (Japan)
		Resources for the study of Nihon koku (Japan)
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/55a/index-d.html (54 words)

	University of Pittsburgh
		Those pursuing research on current topics concerned with Japan can make use of the Japan Information Center (JIC), which gives users direct access to a wide array of government documents, economic reports, and a wide range of data related to social and economic issues.
		The Advanced Certificate in Asian Studies may be earned by U.S. and international students from any department or school of the University.
		ANTH 1739 Cultures of East Asia: Korea and Japan
	www.umc.pitt.edu /bulletins/archive/graduate03/intasia.htm (922 words)

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