Table of Contents

Preface Kozo Yamamura; 1. Economic change in the nineteenth century E. Sydney Crawcour; 2. Industrialization and technological change, 1885–1920 E. Sydney Crawcour; 3. Depression, recovery, and war, 1920–1945 Takafusa Nakamura; 4. The postwar Japanese economy, 1945–1973 Yutaka Kosai; 5. Capital formation in Japan, Kazushi Ohkawa, and Henry Rosovsky; 6. Factory labour and the industrial revolution in Japan Koji Taira; 7. Entrepreneurship, ownership, and management in Japan Kozo Yamamura.

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A useful book explaining how Japan succeeded in transforming an agricultural economy into an advanced industrial economy.

Reviews

"Handsomely produced, The Economic Emergence of Modern Japan adds considerable value to the Cambridge Catalog. No other single volume exceeds it in breadth and comprehensiveness, or in judicious construction of the evidence of more than two centuries of economic change." James C. Baxter, H-Net Reviews