This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems.

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. The purpose of the series is to make works by Japanese scholars accessible to a wider readership and to increase the knowledge of scholars in this field, particularly in relation to Asia. This volume includes four chapters on energy and the environment of Japan, China and Britain and four short book reviews on recent academic works published in Japanese and English. The four chapters cover the following topics: the relationship between deforestation and the development of the silk...

The main focus of this monograph is the dynamic relationships between Japan and her colonies during the years _____ 1945, and the economic development of each colony. At present, East Asia is a major economic center of the world. It is necessary to examine not only both sides of the exploitation or development under colonization paradigm but also the prewar factors that spurred East Asian economic growth in the postwar decades. A noteworthy characteristic of the Japanese empire was the close economic and geographic relations between Japan and her colonies. Economic integration within the...

The aim of this book is to analyze Japan's high-growth economy, in particular to clarify the kinds of changes in people s lives that were generated by high growth. The present volume focuses not on the macro-economic mechanisms that expanded the scale of the economy, but on the micro-economic changes that were effected in everyday life. The emergence of a mass consumption society as a result of economic growth suggests that people's lifestyles and consumer behavior changed in various ways.
The first chapter focuses on the apparel industry's expanding market as it corresponded to changes...

This book is the first volume of a monograph series published by the Socio-Economic History Society, Japan. This volume includes four chapters on energy and the environment of Japan, China and Britain and four short book reviews on recent academic works published in Japanese and English.