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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783892503321
• Autore: Shimizu Hiroshi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
• 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
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (314 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia
• Altri autori (Persone): HirakawaHitoshi <1948->
• Disciplina: 337.5205957
• Soggetti: Prostitution - Japan - History; Prostitution - Singapore - History; Japan Foreign economic relations Singapore; Singapore Foreign economic relations Japan; Japan Economic conditions 1868-; Singapore Economic conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-268) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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