The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War

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C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1999 - Business & Economics - 471 pages
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.
 

Contents

Chapters
3
The West and Japan before the Opening of the Ports
44
The Opening of Japan 18531867
74
42
88
Growth and Transformation in Japans Trade
115
The Role of Public Policy
138
the Foundations
176
The Achievement of International Competitiveness
201
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

Markets and marketing
216
Textiles trade friction and the beginning of managed
226

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