Much has been made of the postwar Japanese economic miracle. However theorigins of this spectacular success and its effect on the region can actuallybe traced b... » 

Much has been made of the postwar Japanese economic miracle. However theorigins of this spectacular success and its effect on the region can actuallybe traced back to an earlier period of Asian history.In Japanese Industrialization and the Asian Economy the contributorsexamine the factors which contributed to the period of major industrializationfrom 18701940. They trace the roots of this growth back to the seventeenthcentury rivalry between Japan and China and how this prompted the expansion ofJapanese development skills. In each of the nine chapters by some of the mosteminent economic historians writing today the development of the Asian marketis regarded as a singularly important precondition of Japanese economicgrowth. While the style is nontechnical details are backed up by diagrams andgraphs. Japanese Industrialization and the Asian Economy offers a valuableguide to the origins of economic dynamism in the Pacific Rim. «