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Considered a miracle at the time, Japan's emergence from devastation to become the world's second-largest economy less than two dozen years after the disaster of wartime defeat has been widely commented upon and analyzed. Yet all too many scholars posit Japan as an exceptional case that defies repeating.In this eminently readable survey, one of Japan's foremost macroeconomists looks back at the rapid-growth years and how they revolutionized Japanese life, for better and for worse, and explains how latent demand, population mobility, productivity improvements, and other non-unique factors converged to generate the growth. At the same time, he frankly acknowledges the less-remarked downside of this transformation. Household appliances proliferated, but so did pollution. Urban development was spectacular, but so was the loss of community and history. Massive urbanization provided workers for the industrial ramp-up but also drained farming communities and their traditions. It was a decidedly mixed bag, and Yoshikawa goes beyond the economics to lay it all out in easily understandable prose augmented by over two score of tables, figures, and photos. This is a personal story about more than Japan-a tale that resonates for all economies at all stages of development.

Japan --- Economic conditions --- Industries -- Japan -- History -- 20th century

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Comment expliquer les origines de l'impressionnant développement économique japonais au cours du XXe siècle ? Alors que les thèses habituellement avancées soulignent le rôle du pouvoir central (gouvernement et zaibatsu), Nakamura Naofumi nous fait parcourir le Japon de l'ère Meiji (1868-1912) dans toute son étendue, du nord au sud, à la découverte des fondations régionales de la « Révolution industrielle ». Analysant la mentalité des acteurs, leur capacité à l'échange d'informations, à l'activation de réseaux de proximité, à la mobilisation de capitaux, l'auteur décrit une pléthore d'entrepreneurs et d'agents publics locaux dynamiques. Engagés dans le lancement d'entreprises innovantes de dimension régionale, ils réalisèrent des aménagements industriels (filatures, charbonnages, chemin de fer ou secteur électrique) dans tout l'archipel entre les années 1880 et 1900. À l'heure où la désindustrialisation des régions s'accompagne d'une croissance économique en berne, la démonstration de Nakamura Naofumi n'apparaît que plus riche de sens.

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Industrial productivity --- Industries --- Productivité --- Industrie --- History --- Histoire --- Just-in-time systems --- Industrial management --- Industrial management - Japan --- Industries - Japan --- Industrial productivity - Japan --- Just-in-time systems - Japan

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Economic conditions. Economic development --- Finance --- Banks and banking --- Industries --- Japan --- Economic conditions --- Banks and banking - Japan. --- Industries - Japan - Periodicals. --- Finance - Japan - Periodicals. --- Japan - Economic conditions - Periodicals. --- Japan - Economic conditions - 1945- - Periodicals.

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Technological innovations --- Economic aspects --- United States --- History --- 20th century --- Japan --- Industries --- Economic history --- 1945 --- -Competition [International ] --- Technological innovations - Economic aspects - United States - History - 20th century. --- Technological innovations - Economic aspects - Japan - History - 20th century. --- Industries - United States - History - 20th century. --- Industries - Japan - History - 20th century. --- Economic history - 1945 --- -Competition, International - History - 20th century.