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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 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.
Contents
INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization ; 2. The Development of Traditional Industries in Modern Japan: A Statistical Exposition ; TRADITION IN INDUSTRIALIZATION ; 3. The Role of "Early Factories" in Japanese Industrialization ; 4. Dualism in the Silk Reeling Industry in Suwa from the 1910s to the 1930s ; 5. Factory Girls in an Agrarian Setting circa 1910 ; 6. The Humble Origins of Modern Japan's Machine Industry ; 7. How Local Trade Associations and Manufacturers' Associations Worked in Pre-war Japan ; THE MODERNIZATION OF LOCAL INDUSTIES ; 8. The Rise of the Factory Industry: Silk Reeling in the Suwa District ; 9. The Export-orientated Industrialization of Japanese Pottery: The Adoption and Adaptation of Overseas Technology and Market Information ; INDUSTRY AND REGIONAL COMMUNITY ; 10. The Development of a Rural Weaving Industry and its Social Capital ; 11. Communal Action in the Development of Regional Industrial Policy: A Case Study of the Kawamata Silk Weaving Industry ; 12. Capital Accumulation and the Local Economy: Brewers and Local Notables