Unfinished business : Ayukawa Yoshisuke and U.S.-Japan relations, 1937-1953 / Haruo Iguchi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iguchi, Haruo, 1964-

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 199.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 199

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aikawa, Yoshisuke, 1880-1967.

Aikawa, Yoshisuke.

International cooperation.

Japan--Foreign economic relations--United States.

Japan.

International economic relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign economic relations--Japan.

Japan--Foreign relations--United States.

International relations.

United States--Foreign relations--Japan.

Physical Description:

viii, 362 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Ayukawa Yoshisuke (1880C1967) was the founder of the Nissan conglomerate and the leader of the Manchuria Industrial Development Corporation, one of the linchpins of Imperial JapanCs 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 JapanCs 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, Iguchi illuminates many of the economic problems of todayCs Japan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-342) and index.

ISBN:

0674003748

OCLC:

50548839