The Economic and Business History of Occupied Japan (eBook, PDF)

New Perspectives
Redaktion: French, Thomas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This chapters presented in this book are authored by major scholars of the Occupation from the US, Japan and Europe. The chapters are divided into three sections: Planning, Reform and Recovery, Industries Under Occupation, and Legacies of the Occupation era. The first section, examines Zaibatsu Dissolution and its significance, the role of Japanese businessmen within the Occupation's reforms, the crucial impact of Japan's post-war Materials Crisis, and finally, the impact of reform at the local level in Hokkaido. Part two looks at a number of individual industries and their development during the era. The final section looks at the human impact of the changes of the initial post-war years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317270096
• Artikelnr.: 49041472

Autorenporträt

Thomas French is an Associate Professor of Modern Japanese History at the College of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He is a specialist on the Occupation of Japan, and his broader research interests include U.S.-Japan relations, the Japanese automotive and arms industries, and the Japanese Self Defence Forces.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Thomas French
Part 1: Planning, Reform, and Recovery
1. Japanese Agency and Business Reform in Occupied Japan: The Holding
Company Liquidation Commission and Zaibatsu Dissolution - Steven J.
Ericson
2. Japan's Postwar Social Metabolic Crisis - Mark Metzler
3. The Role of the Frontier: GHQ's Economic Policies and Hokkaid¿ -
Juha Saunavaara
Part 2: Industries under the Occupation
4. An Empire Reborn: The Japanese Fishing Industry during the Occupation
- William M. Tsutsui
5. Fiats and Jeeps: The Occupation, Jeeps, and the Postwar Automotive
Industry - Thomas French
6. The Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry and Economic Recovery under
SCAP - Takahiro Ohata
Part 3: Socioeconomic Changes in the Occupation Era
7. The Economic Reintegration of Former Colonial Residents in Postwar
Japan - Steven Ivings
8. Good Wife, Wise Mother and Americanised Consumer: The Forced Social
Democratisation of the Private Sphere in Occupied Japan - Zsombor
Rajkai