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Japan’s Industrious Revolution

Part of the Studies in Economic History Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-55142-3

ISBN: 978-4-431-55141-6

Publisher: Springer Japan - Springer Journals

Feb 19, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction: Viewpoints and Methods in the Economic History of Japan

Hayami, Akira

Pages: 1 –13

[Taken literally, economic history is an academic discipline whose purpose is to seek out the developmental processes of economic phenomena occurring in everyday life within the bounds of history. Therefore, as a field, it can be said to reside in an intermediate area between economics and...
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Chapter 2Before the Emergence of Economic Society

Hayami, Akira

Pages: 15 –33

[The process in which “decentralized society” formed was slow everywhere. In Western Europe, it appeared mostly in the eighth and ninth centuries. However, this required more than 400 years after the collapse of the Roman Empire and over the course of several historical events. Those included the...
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Chapter 3The Delayed Formation Process of Economic Society

Hayami, Akira

Pages: 35 –52

[Based on what we saw in the previous chapter, it is virtually impossible for social fluctuation to occur from within. In particular, it is only natural to question how it is possible for an economic society to form from such an unstable society. However, political instability had the opposite...
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Chapter 4The Establishment of Economic Society and the Edo Period

Hayami, Akira

Pages: 53 –67

[As stated in the previous chapter, the government established by quelling the anarchy of the sixteenth century had its foundations in regions where small-scale management in agriculture had already spread with the permeation of economic society and increases in production were becoming a...
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Chapter 5Economic and Social Changes in the Edo Period

Hayami, Akira

Pages: 69 –94

[Agriculture during the Edo Period did not just have several-fold increases in production yields, but there were also major changes in production technology, production organization, in addition to the attitude of peasants to work. These changes had an extremely large impact on the Japanese...
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Chapter 6The Rise of Industriousness in Early Modern Japan

Hayami, Akira

Pages: 95 –103

[The Japanese people are often said to be industrious (although this has recently become questionable). In particular, there are those who say this is due to the “national character” (kokuminsei) of the Japanese people. The author does not feel that the concept of “national character” is...
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Chapter 7Economic Development in Early Modern Japan

Hayami, Akira

Pages: 105 –117

[This chapter explores some of the author’s research findings and their related issues, with special emphasis on economic development, during the “early modern” period (covering the eras of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the Tokugawa Shogunate, according to the standard periodization in...
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Chapter 8Conclusion: Historical Reflections on Japan’s Industrialization

Hayami, Akira

Pages: 119 –128

[The discussions in the previous chapters make it clear that during the Edo Period it is possible to find preparatory signs of modern society and hence a historical continuity. However, the Edo Period was not a modern society. What triggered the transformations was the collection by the samurai...

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