num_pages: 499
description: Synthesizing a wide range of scholarship Christopher Howe traces the history of Japanese trade over four centuries and locates the sources of Japan's current commercial and financial strength in events that began in the sixteenth century.Thoughtful well-organized and lucidly written and reflects many years of painstaking research in different literatures. Business HorizonsThe best analysis yet in English of the role of technology in Japan's emergence as a global economic power.David J. Jeremy Technology and CultureAn important addition to Japanese economic history and the concept of creating relative advantage in trade.Richard Rice Journal of Asian StudiesNo other work in English approaches Christopher Howe's combination of a sweeping historical perspective with a comprehensive yet in-depth analysis of factors underlying Japan's pre-1940 economic 'miracle.' . . . [An] illuminating study.Steven J. Ericson American Historical Review
language: English
title: The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy: Development and Technology in Asia from 1540 to the Pacific War
publisher: University of Chicago Press