UID:
almafu_9959234233202883
Format:
1 online resource (314 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-65173-2
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0-429-22974-7
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1-280-32456-2
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1-134-65174-0
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0-585-45171-0
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0-203-21296-7
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia
Uniform Title:
Karayukisan to keizai shinshutsu.
Content:
This pioneering work examines Japan's economic activities in Singapore from 1870 to 1965. Drawing upon a wide range of published and unpublished sources, the authors shed new light on issues such as:* prostitution* foreign trade by Kobe's overseas Chinese* fishermen in the inter-war period* Japanese economic activities during the Pacific War* Japanese involvement in Singapore's post-war industrialisation plan* the Lee Kuan Yew regimes policy towards Japan* the 1960's Japanese investment boom This important work challenges commonly-held views on Japan's economic
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates and maps; List of figures and tables; Abbreviations; Explanatory notes; Preface and acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction; Emergence of Singapore and Japan in the world economy; Rise of modern Japan and Japanese emigration; Karayuki-san and Japan's economic advance into Singapore; Background to the emergence of prostitution in British Malaya; The role of karayuki-san in Japan's economic advance; Decline and abolition of Japanese prostitution; Concluding remarks; Japan's trade expansion into British Malaya: with special reference to Singapore
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The overseas Chinese and the development of Japan's trade with British Malaya Rise of the overseas Chinese merchants at Kobe and Japan's foreign trade; Chinese commercial networks; Japan's trade with British Malaya during World War I and the 1920's; Japan's trade with British Malaya in the 1930's; Concluding remarks; The rise and fall of the Japanese fisheries based in Singapore; Rise and growth of Japanese fisheries; The depression and the supremacy of the Taichong Kongsi; The Japanese fisheries on the decline in the late 1930's; Concluding remarks; Japan's economic activities in Syonan
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The outbreak of the Pacific War and the Japanese in Syonan Currency and banks under Japanese rule; Fisheries and the Eifuku Sangyo Koshi; Commercial activities; Manufacturing sector; Karayuki-san, ryotei and comfort stations; Concluding remarks; Japan's return to Singapore in the post-war period; International factors in the return of Japan to Southeast Asia; The resumption of Japanese economic activities in Singapore; Singapore's expectations for Japanese co-operation in industrialisation; Japanese firms in Singapore in the second half of the 1950's; Concluding remarks
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The blood-debt issue and Japan's economic advance Policy for import-substitution industrialisation; The reparations issue and the Lee regime's policy towards Japanese firms; Japanese capital investment in Singapore in the first half of the 1960's; Concluding remarks; Conclusion; Singapore and Japan's economic advance since 1965; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-19236-6
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203212967
