Masayuki Tanimoto is Professor of Economic History at the University of Tokyo and editor of The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization.R. Bin Wong is Distinguished Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles, and coauthor of Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe.
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This volume explores Japan’s industrialization from the perspective of "indigenous development", focusing on what may be identified as "traditional" or "indigenous" fact …