Proto-industrial origins of Japanese capitalism
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Proto-industrialization paved the way for the emergence of capitalism in Japan. It is characterized by an economy where capital moves from the realm of circulation into the realm of production. In this transitional phase, the rural population depended largely on industrial mass production for inter-regional and international markets for their livelihood. The growth of the economy through commercial agriculture, rural by-employments and manufacturing increased the peasants' income. This weakened feudalism and removed economic and political constrainst for the emergence of capitalism. The Hokkaido herring fertilizer trade exemplies Japan's proto-industrialization during the l8th and l9th centuries.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 1992
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Trade and economy in preindustrial East Asia, c. 1500-c.1800: East Asia in the age of global integration
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In an article published in 1992, Professor of economic history at Waseda University, Kawakatsu Heita, argued that modernization of Japan germinated in seventeenth century, and not the nineteenth century. However, Kawakatsu's thesis neglected the role of Japan as part of wider East Asian economic history. The importance of foreign trade to Japanese preindustrial economies is analysed.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 1999
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Making "useful citizens" of Ainu subjects in early twentieth-century Japan
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Questions surrounding the assimilation and livelihoods of the Ainu in the early twentieth century is examined. The Ainu Identity survived and thrived in the largely private dominion of household and community while discrimination against them still remains a significant problem.
Publication Name: The Journal of Asian Studies
Subject: Regional focus/area studies
ISSN: 0021-9118
Year: 2004
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