From Edo to Heisei - Decoding the Path of Japan's Economic Development

Author: (Japan) Kenichi Ono / Xinxin Zang / Xinyuan Zang
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: From the perspective of Japan's economic development history, it has also experienced the journey of a developing country and had "shocking" encounters with Western and Eastern powers. What was the development process of Japan as a developing country? What challenges did it encounter, what opportunities did it seize, and what difficulties did it overcome to become a developed industrialized nation? This book studies and explores Japan's "journey" from the Edo period, which is helpful for developing and transforming countries in the world today that are exploring ways to achieve economic growth and strength for their nations to learn from and compare. This book elaborates on Japan's unique development journey from a backward "developing country" to a developed industrialized nation. It portrays Japan's development journey as a vivid piece of information, conveying it to the elites of various countries who are striving for the prosperity of their nations. To truly understand one's own country, one must have an international comparative perspective. The economic history of Japan described in this book discusses the concept of "transformative adaptation," where a nation is not dominated by external pressures but actively participates in the process of globalization. This is a mirror for discovering and understanding one's own country.