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

by Masayuki Tanimoto

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198292746
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/27/2006
Series:	Japanese Studies in Economic and Social History , #2
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	9.21(w) x 6.14(h) x 0.81(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization, Masayuki Tanimoto2. The Development of Traditional Industries in Modern Japan: A Statistical Exposition, Takanori MatsumotoTradition in Industrialization3. The Role of "Early Factories" in Japanese Industrialization, Johzen Takeuchi4. Dualism in the Silk Reeling Industry in Suwa from the 1910s to 1930s, Satoshi Matsumura5. Factory Girls in an Agrarian Setting circa 1910, Jun Sasaki6. The Humble Origins of Modern Japan's Machine Industry, Jun Suzuki7. How Local Trade Associations and Manufacturers' Associations Worked in Pre-war Japan, Kazuhiro OmoriThe Modernization of Local Industies8. The Rise of the Factory Industry: Silk Reeling in the Suwa District, Masaki Nakabayashi9. The Export-orientated Industrialization of Japanese Pottery, Takehisa YamadaIndustry and Regional Community10. The Development of a Rural Weaving Industry and its Social Capital, Hisami Matsuzaki11. Communal Action in the Development of Regional Industrial Policy, Futoshi Yamauchi12. Capital Accumulation and the Local Economy, Masayuki Tanimoto