Japanese Industrialization and Its Social Consequences

By Hugh T. Patrick

Book Overview

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1976.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520326024
• ISBN13: 9780520326026
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 522 Pages

Customer Reviews

no auto and electronics companies

Written in 1976, the book features a collection of research papers by Japanese and American economists, that look at the industrialisation of Japan, from the mid 1800s to the 1970s. They study the changes in Japanese society that these engendered. The papers are not light reading. They emphasise a quantitative analysis, replete with tables of economic data. Key industries are studied. Notably shipbuilding and the general trading companies. Both were heavily export oriented, and contributed significantly to Japan's meteoric growth after World War 2. But today's reader looking at the book will be struck by the absence from the study of the automotive and electronics companies. While these certainly existed at the time of writing, their greatest expansions came later.