Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies
Introduction: Viewpoints and Methods in the Economic History of Japan. 1
1 Scope and Methods of Economic History. 1
2 The Object of this Volume. 2
3 The Modern Era as an Analytical Point of Departure. 3
4 Typology of Industrialization. 4
5 Agents and Conditions of Industrialization. 5
6 Agents and the so-called Bourgeois Revolution 5
7 On Conditions. 6
8 Economic Society. 7
I.9 Paths to Industrialization. 8
1.10 Two Paths to Development in Economic History. 9
1.11 "Decentralized Society" 10
1.12 Historical Approach. 10
1.13 Key Points and Summary 12
1.14 Periodization in Economic History 12
1.15 Summary of the Introduction. 13
2 Before the Emergence of Economic Society. 15
2.1 The Birth of a "Decentralized Society" 15
2.2 State Formation in Ancient Japan. 16
2.3 Land System under the Ancient State 17
2.4 Structure of the Shoen. 19
2.5 Categories of Shoen. 20
2.6 The Progress of Shoen Formation. 21
2.7 The Character of Shoen Ownership Rights. 22
2.8 Formation of Warrior Governments. 23
2.9 Kamakura Bakufu 23
2.10 Jito. 25
2.11 The Peasantry 26
2.J2 The Economy of the Shoen System 27
2.13 Purpose of Production. 28
2.14 The Absence of Economic Society and the Nature of Nengu 30
2.15 Conditions for the Survival of the Shoen Economy. 30
2.16 The Muromachi Period. 31
2.17 Summary of Chapter Two 32
3 The Delayed Formation Process of Economic Society 35
3.1 After the Collapse of the Ritsuryo-Shoen System. 35
3.2 Formation of Economic Society in Japan. 36
3.3 The Sufficiency of Currency. 37
3.4 The Rise of Markets. 37
3.5 Changes in Rural Villages and Agricultural Production. 38
3.6 Economic Incentives 40
3.7 Changes in Urban Areas. 40
3.8 Sengoku Daimyo. 41
3.9 Regional Disparities. 43
3.10 International Environment. 45
3.11 Summary of Chapter Three: A Great Transition. 51
4 The Establishment of Economic Society and the Edo Period 53
4.1 The Bakuhan System. 53
4.2 Initial Cadastral Surveys. 54
4.3 The Kokudaka and Murauke Nengu Systems. 57
4.4 Economic Structure. 58
4.5 Economic Change during the Edo Period 60
4.6 Economic Spheres. 62
4.7 The Currency System. 65
5 Economic and Social Changes in the Edo Period. 69
5.1 Direction of Technical Development and the Creation of Work Ethics. 69
5.2 The Results of the rise of Intensive Agriculture. 71
5.3 Population Increase in the Early Edo Period. 73
5.4 Peasants and Production. 74
5.5 The Rise of Landlordism. 75
5.6 Peasant Migration. 77
5.7 Peasant Life. 78
5.8 Demography in the Latter Half of the F.clo Period. 81
5.9 Decline of the Lord's Economy. 86
5.10 Solutions to the Financial Crisis 88
5.11 Shogunate Governmental Reforms 90
5. I 2 Social Anxiety 94
6 The Rise of Industriousness in Early Modern Japan 95
1 Introduction 95
2 Industrious Revolution versus Industrial Revolution. 96
3 From Livestock Power to Human Power: Changes in the Agricultural Production System in Tokugawa Japan. 97
6.4 Change in the Number of Livestock. 98
6.5 Changes in Agricultural Methods and Household Composition. 101
6.6 Conclusion of this Chapter 02
7 Economic Development in Early Modem Japan. 105
7.1 Assessing "Early Modern" in Economic History of Japan 105
7.2 Early Modern Economy and Society: Emergence of Economic Society l 07
7.3 Population, Prices and Wages 110
7.4 Economic Policies and Economic Models 115
Conclusion: Historical Reflections on Japan's Industrialization. 119
8.1 The Significance of the Edo Period for the Birth of Modern Japan. 119
8.2 The Seigneurial System 122
8.3 Production Technology. 123
8.4 Pppulation Pressure. 123
8.5 The Limitation of Market Growth. 124
8.6 Obstacles to the Industrial Breakthrough 124
8.7 The Government. 126
8.8 Summary 127
