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

Author: [Japan] Kenichi Ono
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: From the perspective of economic development history, Japan has also experienced the journey of a developing country and had "shocking" encounters with Western and Eastern powers. What was the developmental path 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 to learn and compare in their pursuit of economic growth and strength. This book elaborates on Japan's unique developmental path from a backward "developing country" to a developed industrialized nation. It recreates Japan's development journey as a vivid information, conveying it to the elites of various countries who are striving for their own prosperity. To truly understand one's own country, one must have an international comparative perspective. The economic history of Japan described in this book argues for 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.