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The Changing Pattern of Sino-Japanese Trade, 1884–1937
Ist Teil von
The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937, 2014, p.10
Ort / Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2014
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Japan underwent a remarkable economic development between the Meiji Restoration and World War ii. The rapid growth of foreign trade was a key factor in this development. Because Japan had few raw materials to sustain rapid industrial growth, foreign sources of supply like China had to be found and developed. Modern technology, too, was acquired by importing machinery and equipment from the West. To earn the foreign exchange to buy these goods, Japan had to produce what foreigners wanted badly enough to buy. Trade, therefore, was an important two-way traffic.
Yet the role of foreign trade in Japan’s economic development