Format:
Online-Ressource (314 p)
ISBN:
9780415192361
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Content:
Using a variety of published and unpublished material, this work examines Japan's economic activities in Singapore, analysing the role of Japanese prostitutes, Kobe's overseas Chinese and the Lee Kwan Yew regime's policy towards Japan
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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 MalayaRise 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 1920s; Japan's trade with British Malaya in the 1930s; 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 1930s; Concluding remarks; Japan's economic activities in Syonan
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The outbreak of the Pacific War and the Japanese in SyonanCurrency 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 1950s; Concluding remarks
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The blood-debt issue and Japan's economic advancePolicy 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 1960s; Concluding remarks; Conclusion; Singapore and Japan's economic advance since 1965; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203212967
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415192361
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Japan and Singapore in the World Economy : Japan's Economic Advance into Singapore 1870-1965
Language:
English
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