num_pages: 188
description: This book focuses on the trans-Meiji Restoration story of the ideological transformation that made modern capitalism possible in Japan. To illustrate this transformation, the book looks at four key architects of Meiji Japan's capitalist Okubo Toshimichi, Godai Tomoatsu, Matsukata Masayoshi and Maeda Masana.
language: English
title: Origins of Japanese Wealth and Power: Reconciling Confucianism and Capitalism, 1830-1885
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan