Japanese empire and its economic conditions

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New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, []. Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video. An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio An illustration of a " floppy disk. The Japanese empire and its economic conditions by Dautremer, Joseph, Publication date Topics Japan -- Description and travel, Japan -- Economic conditionsPages: The Empire of Japan (Japanese: 大日本帝国, Hepburn: Dai Nippon Teikoku) is a historical nation-state along with its colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories that existed from the Meiji Restoration in to the enactment of the constitution of modern Japan.

Japan's rapid industrialization and militarization under the slogan Fukoku Kyōhei (富国強兵, "Enrich the Capital: Kyoto (–), Tokyo City. The official government entities that guided the Japanese national economy were the Economy and Finance Ministry, the Bank of Japan, and the Industry and Commerce military spending, there was the Navy Ministry and the Ministry of the Army.

Domestic investment. Domestic investment in industry and infrastructure was the driving force behind growth in Japanese output. A noteworthy characteristic of the Japanese colonial empire was the close economic and geographic relations among Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and the northeastern region of China.

Economic integration within the empire strengthened considerably in the interwar years and remained high even during the war as compared to that in European countries and.

Japan - Japan - The emergence of imperial Japan: Achieving equality with the West was one of the primary goals of the Meiji leaders. Treaty reform, designed to end the foreigners’ judicial and economic privileges provided by extraterritoriality and fixed customs duties was sought as early as when the Iwakura mission went to the United States and Europe.

The Japanese Colonial Empire, Leased Territory, and the South Seas Mandated Islands), the institutions and policies by which it was governed, and the economic dynamics that impelled it. Seeking neither to justify the empire nor to condemn it, the contributors place it in the framework of Japanese history and in the context of.

Its infrastructure revitalized through the Occupation period reforms, its capacity to import and export enhanced by the new international economic order, and its access to American technology bolstered through its security pact with the United States, Japan experienced the dramatic “Miracle Growth” between and the early s whose.

Japan - Japan - Political developments: The LDP continued its dominance of Japanese politics until Its success in steering Japan through the difficult years of the OPEC oil crisis and the economic transition that substituted high-technology enterprises for smokestack industries in the s and ’80s, thereby restoring Japan’s international economic confidence, was not lost on the.

In the late nineteenth century, Japan's economy began to grow and to industrialize rapidly. Because Japan has few natural resources, many of its burgeoning industries had to rely on imported raw materials, such as coal, iron ore or steel scrap, tin, copper, bauxite, rubber, and petroleum.

Issues examined in particular include the development and transformation of Japan's financial system and monetary policy, the emergence of big business as an economic power, the Japanese empire and its colonies, wartime controls, andthe economic democratization, reconstruction, and.

While it is not a history of the Japanese economy per se, one can open the book at almost any page and learn something about Japan's history in the context of its economy. It is a well-written, lucid and attractive book, and should be recommended reading for all students of Japan's economy and s: 3.

As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia. Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War (–5) and the Russo-Japanese War (–5) but became overextended in the Second Sino-Japanese War (–45), which escalated, with profound.

Although the military and geopolitical relevance of World War I to Japan must be considered limited, its economic impact was considerable.

In sharp contrast to the prewar deficit years, Japan saw its external trade expand rapidly. This article describes how the country’s establishment reacted to this shift. In addition to lending to several allies, it also engaged in the politically risky. InKorea was annexed by the Empire of Japan after years of war, intimidation and political machinations; the country would be considered a part of Japan until Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War As Japan modernized and became the one non-European great power, its leaders concluded that an empire on the Asian mainland required the containment of Russia.

Japan won the First Sino-Japanese War () and the Russo-Japanese War () but became overextended in the Second Sino-Japanese War ( 4/5(6).

These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese empire from its establishment in to its liquidation in They offer a variety of perspectives on subjects previously neglected by historians: the origin and evolution of the formal empire (which comprised Taiwan, Korea, Karafuto.

the Kwantung Leased Territory, and the 5/5(3). Japanese exports almost tripled in only four years. Taking advantage of Europe’s internal conflicts, Japan moved into an East Asian power vacuum and demanded that the Chinese government, weak and decentralized after the collapse of the Qing Empire inturn over much of its economic and political power to Japan.

The Japanese empire, like the British one, was founded on the international division of labor, in this case with its Asian neighbors, including Manchuria, Formosa, and Korea; but the financing power of Japan’s debt and monetary inflation was put into the service of its warfare state.

Japan’s demands marked a new chapter in the nation’s growing militarism and expansionism. With the outbreak of World War I, Japanese manufacturing and trade experienced a tremendous boom as many domestic industries filled a large gap left by Europe’s devastated markets.

As Japan’s economic prosperity grew, so did its population. Unlike so many books on the Japanese Colonial Empire which tend to be quite narrow on their focus, this compulation covers the entire empire, formal and informal. Also to its credit, the essays inside are a good mixture of specifically focused and more broadly outlined s: 6.This book is a superb work, surveying the creation and management of the Japanese colonial empire, as well as looking at its heritage and mode of existence vis-a-vis the older European empires.

It is a quite masterful work, and within its broad range of topics and focuses, and the reader is bound to come across some which they find to be of /5(5).