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The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization »

Authors: Masayuki Tanimoto
ISBN-13: 9780198292746, ISBN-10: 0198292740
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: June 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Masayuki Tanimoto

Masayuki Tanimoto is Associate Professor of Economic History at the Graduate School of Economics, University of Tokyo. He is currently an academic visitor at the London School of Economics. In 1998, he was awarded the Nikkei Economic Book Prize.

Book Synopsis

This volume explores Japan's industrialization from the perspective of "indigenous development", focusing on what may be identified as "traditional" or "indigenous" industries. Available for the first time in English, this volume sheds new light on the role of "indigenous development" and our understanding of the dualistic character of Japan's economic development.

1	The role of tradition in Japan's industrialization : another path to industrialization	3
2	The development of traditional industries in modern Japan : a statistical exposition	45
3	The role of "early factories" in Japanese industrialization	75
4	Dualism in the silk-reeling industry in Suwa from the 1910s to the 1930s	93
5	Factory girls in an agrarian setting circa 1910	121
6	The humble origins of modern Japan's machine industry	140
7	How local trade associations and manufacturers' associations worked in pre-war Japan	157
8	The rise of a factory industry : silk reeling in Suwa district	183
9	The export-oriented industrialization of Japanese pottery : the adoption and adaptation of overseas technology and market information	217
10	The development of a rural weaving industry and its social capital	243
11	Communal action in the development of regional industrial policy : a case study of the Kawamata silk weaving industry	273
12	Capital accumulation and the local economy : brewers and local notables	301