The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations 1600-2000: Volume IV: Economic and Business Relations

ISBN-13: 9780333791974 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 355 str.

Janet E. Hunter; Shinya Sugiyama

Opis

This volume is concerned with the development of business and economic relations between Britain and Japan from the early seventeenth century up to the late twentieth century. Particular attention is given to commodity trade, capital flows, the transfer of knowledge and the overall balance of economic power between the two nations. Mutual perceptions of economic strengths and weaknesses are also considered, and the economic relationship located in the broader context of political and strategic interaction.

Spis treści

Anglo-Japanese Economic Relations in Historical Perspective, 1600-2000: Trade and Industry, Finance, Technology and the Industrial Challenge; J.Hunter & S.Sugiyama British-Japanese Rivalry in Trading and Banking; K.Ishii 'Learn and Earn, Earn and Learn': British Influence and Fukuzawa Yukichi's Creation of the First Japanese Business Elite; N.Tamaki A Munition Steel Company and Anglo-Japanese Relations Before and After World War I: The Corporate Governance of the Japan Steel Works and its British Shareholders; B.Nagura Japanese Government Loan Issues on the London Capital Market During the Interwar Period; T.Suzuki A Case Study of Anglo-Japanese Cooperation in the Motor Vehicle Industry: Ishikawajima, Wolseley, Isuzu and Rootes; C.Madeley British Perceptions of Japanese Economic Development in the 1920s: with Special Reference to the Cotton Industry; J.Sharkey Facing the Unavoidable: Great Britain, the Sterling Area and Japan: Economic and Trading Relations, 1950-1960; J.Weste Anglo-Japanese Investment in the Postwar Period; M.Conte-Helm Index

O autorze

MARIE CONTE-HELM Director, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, Visiting Professor, University of Northumbria, Newcastle KANJI ISHII Professor of Economics, Tokyo Keizai University CHRISTOPHER MADELEY Lecturer, Chaucer College, Canterbury BUNJI NAGURA Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Ibaraki University, Mito City JOHN SHARKEY formerly British Academy Research Fellow, Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, London TOSHIO SUZUKI Professor, Economics Department, Tohoku University, Sensai NORIO TAMAKI Professor, Faculty of Commence, Keio University, Tokyo JONH WESTE Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Durham