Rural Economic Development In Japan

Author : Penelope Francks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134207867
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rural Economic Development in Japan written by Penelope Francks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the historical literature on Japan, rural people have tended to be regarded as the exploited victims of the industrialisation process. This book provides an alternative view of the role and significance of the rural economy in Japan’s emergence as an economic power prior to World War II. Using theories and approaches derived from development studies and economic history the book describes the nineteenth-century development of a diversified, proto-industrial rural economy, focusing on the strategies employed by households as they sought to secure and improve their livelihoods. The book argues that rural people, through their ‘industrious revolution’, played an active part in determining the course of Japan’s agrarian transition and, eventually, the distinctive features of industrial Japan’s political economy, with the result that rural life still figures largely in the reality and imagination of contemporary Japan.

Author : Penny Francks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317811402
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Economic Development written by Penny Francks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and updated third edition of Japanese Economic Development looks at Japan's economic history from the nineteenth century through to World War II, recasting analysis of Japan’s economic past in the light fresh theoretical perspectives in the study of economic history and development. Francks draws out the historical roots of the institutions and practices on which Japan's post-war economic miracle was based and provides a comparative framework within which the Japanese case can be understood and related to development in the rest of the world. New features for this edition include: textboxes summarising key concepts expanded coverage of the early-modern economy, the ‘traditional sector’, and the international context of Japanese growth an increased number of case studies fully up-dated references, glossary and bibliography. Taking a thematic approach, this textbook demonstrates how studying the first example of Asian industrialisation can provide the basis for an alternative, non-western narrative of development. As it such is an important resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on the Japanese economy, as well as comparative economic development and economic history more generally.

Author : Stephanie Assmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317577248
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainability in Contemporary Rural Japan written by Stephanie Assmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural communities in Japan have suffered from significant depopulation and economic downturn in post-war years. Low birth rates, aging populations, agricultural decline and youth migration to large cities have been compounded by the triple disaster of 11 March 2011, which destroyed farming and fishing communities and left thousands of people homeless. This book identifies these challenges and acknowledges that an era of post-growth has arrived in Japan. Through exploring new forms of regional employment, community empowerment, and reverse migration, the authors address potential opportunities and benefits that may help to create and ensure the quality of life in depopulating areas and post-disaster scenarios. This book will be of interest not only to students of Japanese society, but also to those outside of Japan who are seeking new approaches for tackling depopulation challenges.

Author : Kazushi Ohkawa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400872030
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agriculture and Economic Growth written by Kazushi Ohkawa and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains updated versions of a set of papers presented at the International Conference on Agriculture and Economic Development-A Symposium on Japan's Experience which was held in Tokyo, July, 1967. These papers make a comprehensive reappraisal of Japan's agricultural development and its relevance to economic growth over the last 100 years. They emphasize long-term studies in analyzing Japan's agricultural development, with the century following the Meiji Restoration as the historical setting. Intensive consideration is also given to the Meiji Era, 1868-1912. Part I considers the historical phases of Japan's development, and attempts to give a comprehensive exposition of Japan's long-term growth. Part II deals with productivity growth and technological progress; Part III treats agricultural population and labor force; Part IV includes papers dealing with exports of primary products, credit and financial institutions, farm-household savings, the impact of Land Reform, and food consumption patterns. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Penelope Francks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134661827
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Japanese Economic Development written by Penelope Francks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-02-07 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly revised, clearly-presented text looks at Japan's economic history from the nineteenth century through to World War II. Working within a framework based on the theories and approaches of development studies, Francks demonstrates the relevance of Japan's pre-war experience to the problems facing developing countries today, and draws out the historical roots of the institutions and practices on which Japan's post-war economic miracle was based. New features include: * fresh theoretical perspectives * additional material derived from new sources * an increased number of case studies * fully up-dated references and bibliography. This broad-ranging textbook is both topical and easy-to-use and will be of immense use to those seeking an understanding of Japanese economic development.

Author : Chie Nakane
Publisher : London : Athlone P. ; New York : Humanities P.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinship and Economic Organization in Rural Japan written by Chie Nakane and published by London : Athlone P. ; New York : Humanities P.. This book was released on 1967 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of family structure within the social structure of agriculture in Japan - covers sociological aspects of land tenure, religion, tradition and social change affecting landowners, tenant farmers, and other rural workers, rural development, etc. Map, and bibliography pp. 173 to 197.

Author : Chie Nakane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000324095
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kinship and Economic Organisation in Rural Japan written by Chie Nakane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essay the author presents the principles of one important sector of social organization in Japan, and establish its framework. Japanese kinship structure, with its multiple historical and local factors, and unlike that of the Chinese or of the Hindus, does not belong to the category of unilineal systems, nor to any kind of descent pattern found in the published literature of social anthropology. Social anthropology, developed by micro-synchronic studies of simpler societies, and with its major analysis devoted to descent systems, has to face in Japan a critical methodological test. In this essay, the author, as a social anthropologist, want to overcome these drawbacks of anthropological method, and to demonstrate one of the new approaches by which an anthropologist can cope with the data from a sophisticated society

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264173943
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultivating Rural Amenities An Economic Development Perspective written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-18 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book points out that because many natural and cultural features are public goods, with limited markets and hazy property rights, public policies are needed to strike the delicate balance between supply and demand.

Author : Kerry Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684173418
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Time of Crisis written by Kerry Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Japan’s transformation by the economic crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts to overcome the effects of the Great Depression in rural areas, particularly the activities of local activists and policymakers in Tokyo. The reactions of inhabitants of rural areas to the depression shed new light on how average Japanese responded to the problems of modernization and how they re-created the countryside.

Author : W. J. Macpherson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521557924
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Development of Japan 1868-1941 written by W. J. Macpherson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-14 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concise overview of Japanese economic history between 1868 and 1941, with a comprehensive guide to further reading (now updated to 1994).