The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization
Another Path to Industrialization
Author: Masayuki Tanimoto Series: Japanese Studies in Economic and Social History
Introduction 1. Masayuki Tanimoto: The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization 2. Takanori Matsumoto: The Development of Traditional Industries in Modern Japan: A Statistical Exposition Tradition in Industrialization 3. Johzen Takeuchi: The Role of "Early Factories" in Japanese Industrialization 4. Satoshi Matsumura: Dualism in the Silk Reeling Industry in Suwa from the 1910s to 1930s 5. Jun Sasaki: Factory Girls in an Agrarian Setting circa 1910 6. Jun Suzuki: The Humble Origins of Modern Japan's Machine Industry 7. Kazuhiro Omori: How Local Trade Associations and Manufacturers' Associations Worked in Pre-war Japan The Modernization of Local Industies 8. Masaki Nakabayashi: The Rise of the Factory Industry: Silk Reeling in the Suwa District 9. Takehisa Yamada: The Export-orientated Industrialization of Japanese Pottery Industry and Regional Community 10. Hisami Matsuzaki: The Development of a Rural Weaving Industry and its Social Capital 11. Futoshi Yamauchi: Communal Action in the Development of Regional Industrial Policy 12. Masayuki Tanimoto: Capital Accumulation and the Local Economy
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.
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Introduction 1. Masayuki Tanimoto: The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization 2. Takanori Matsumoto: The Development of Traditional Industries in Modern Japan: A Statistical Exposition Tradition in Industrialization 3. Johzen Takeuchi: The Role of "Early Factories" in Japanese Industrialization 4. Satoshi Matsumura: Dualism in the Silk Reeling Industry in Suwa from the 1910s to 1930s 5. Jun Sasaki: Factory Girls in an Agrarian Setting circa 1910 6. Jun Suzuki: The Humble Origins of Modern Japan's Machine Industry 7. Kazuhiro Omori: How Local Trade Associations and Manufacturers' Associations Worked in Pre-war Japan The Modernization of Local Industies 8. Masaki Nakabayashi: The Rise of the Factory Industry: Silk Reeling in the Suwa District 9. Takehisa Yamada: The Export-orientated Industrialization of Japanese Pottery Industry and Regional Community 10. Hisami Matsuzaki: The Development of a Rural Weaving Industry and its Social Capital 11. Futoshi Yamauchi: Communal Action in the Development of Regional Industrial Policy 12. Masayuki Tanimoto: Capital Accumulation and the Local Economy
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.
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This volume explores Japan's industrialization from the perspective of "indigenous development", focusing on what may be identified as "traditional" or "indigenous" factors. Japanese industrialization has often been described as the process of transferring or importing technology and organization from Western countries. Recent research has, however, shown that economic development had already begun in pre-modern period (Tokugawa-era) in Japan. This economicdevelopment not only prepared Japan for the transfer from the West, but also formed the basis of the particular industrialization process which paralleled transplanted industrialization in modern Japan. Theaim of the volume is to demonstrate this aspect of industrialization through the detailed studies of so-called "indigenous" industries.This collection of papers looks at the industries originating in the Tokugawa-era, such as weaving, silk-reeling and pottery, as well as the newly developed small workshops engaged in manufacturing machinery, soap, brash, buttons, etc. Small businesses in the tertiary sector, transportation and commerce, are also observed. Available for thefirst time in English, these papers shed new light on the role of "indigenous development" and our understanding of the dualistic character of Japan's economic development.
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“Deeply informed by regional and individual enterprise studies, this volume makes an impressive case for the importance of indigenous industry in Japan's early industrial development.”
Journal of Japanese Studies
About the Author
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.
This volume explores Japan's industrialization from the perspective of "indigenous development", focusing on what may be identified as "traditional" or "indigenous" factors. Japanese industrialization has often been described as the process of transferring or importing technology and organization from Western countries. Recent research has, however, shown that economic development had already begun in pre-modern period (Tokugawa-era) in Japan. This economic development not only prepared Japan for the transfer from the West, but also formed the basis of the particular industrialization process which paralleled transplanted industrialization in modern Japan. The aim of the volume is to demonstrate this aspect of industrialization through the detailed studies of so-called "indigenous" industries.This collection of papers looks at the industries originating in the Tokugawa-era, such as weaving, silk-reeling and pottery, as well as the newly developed small workshops engaged in manufacturing machinery, soap, brash, buttons, etc. Small businesses in the tertiary sector, transportation and commerce, are also observed. Available for the first time in English, these papers shed new light on the role of "indigenous development" and our understanding of the dualistic character of Japan's economic development.
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