Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.–Japan Relations, 1937–1953 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) - Hardcover

Iguchi, Haruo

 
9780674003743: Unfinished Business: Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.–Japan Relations, 1937–1953 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674003748 ISBN 13: 9780674003743
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001

Synopsis

Ayukawa Yoshisuke (1880–1967) was the founder of the Nissan conglomerate and the leader of the Manchuria Industrial Development Corporation, one of the linchpins of Imperial Japan’s efforts to economically exploit its overseas dependencies. Despite his close association with the Japanese government from the 1920s to the 1950s, Ayukawa was a proponent of free trade and global economic interdependence. He sought to lessen state control of Japan’s economy by trying to attract foreign―especially American―capital and technology in the years surrounding World War II.

In the postwar era in particular, Ayukawa actively pushed the growth of small- and medium-sized firms, yet his efforts were ultimately unsuccessful. In Unfinished Business, through exploring the reasons for Ayukawa’s failure, Haruo Iguchi illuminates many of the economic problems of today’s Japan.

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About the Author

Haruo Iguchi is Assistant Professor in the Center for American Studies at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.

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Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0674003748
ISBN 13 
9780674003743
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
362