Concise overview of Japanese economic history between 1868 and 1941, with a comprehensive guide to further reading (now updated to 1994).

This 2003 book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the emergence of modern Japan.

The history of Imperial Japan, from the Meiji Restoration through to defeat and occupation at the end of the Second World War, is central to any understanding o

This newly revised, clearly-presented text looks at Japan's economic history from the nineteenth century through to World War II. Working within a framework bas

The idea has become popular that industrialisation in East Asia, in particular Japan, was fundamentally differently from Western industrialization because it wo