The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War
Japan'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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Contents
Chapters
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3 |
The West and Japan before the Opening of the Ports
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44 |
The Opening of Japan 18531867
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74 |
42
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88 |
Growth and Transformation in Japans Trade
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115 |
The Role of Public Policy
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138 |
the Foundations
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176 |
The Achievement of International Competitiveness
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201 |
Building the Technological Infrastructure
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235 |
Technology and Trade in the Strategic Industries
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268 |
Technology and Trade in the Commercial Sector
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316 |
The Imperial Background and the Case of Taiwan
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335 |
The Economic Expansion of Japan in Manchuria
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366 |
Japans Trade and Direct Investment in the Chinese
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410 |
Conclusions
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