Japan and Singapore in the world economy : Japan's economic advance into Singapore, 1870-1965 / Shimizu Hiroshi and Hirakawa Hitoshi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shimizu, Hiroshi.

Contributor:

Hirakawa, Hitoshi, 1948-

Series:

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.

Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia

Standardized Title:

Karayukisan to keizai shinshutsu. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution--Japan--History.

Prostitution.

Prostitution--Singapore--History.

Japan--Foreign economic relations--Singapore.

Japan.

Singapore--Foreign economic relations--Japan.

Singapore.

Japan--Economic conditions--1868-.

Singapore--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Japan's economic advance into Singapore, 1870-1965

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Drawing upon a wide range of published and unpublished sources, the authors shed new light on issues such as:* prostitution* foreign trade by Kobe's overseas Chinese* fishermen in the inter-war period* Japanese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

Contents:

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

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-268) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-65173-2

0-429-22974-7

1-280-32456-2

1-134-65174-0

0-585-45171-0

0-203-21296-7

9780429229749

OCLC:

560045760