Course Description

In this course, we’ll look back the history of Japanese economic and industrial modernization after the Meiji era. It includes (a) the history of world economy after the Age of Discovery, (b) the start of Japanese Industrial Revolution in the latter half of the 19th century, which was influenced by the expanding world trade of those days, (c) Japanese industrial and technological development afterwards, (d) Japanese repetitive business cycles and government's economic, financial and industrial policy in the Meiji era, (e) Japanese unique economic system which boosted its postwar economic growth,and so on. Through studying these subjects, we’ll try to understand characteristics of Japanese economy.