In this episode, Dr. Masao Nakamura (UBC) discloses the impacts of the Meiji Period on Japanese business and financial practices, investing importance in the close relationship between the state and the public sector. We discuss how the Restoration affected family-based merchant firms like Mitsui and Sumitomo, question the success of Meiji "big push" economic policies, locate the origins of prewar Zaibatsu in Meiji-era financial practices, and speculate on the problems facing Japanese commerce today. (Transcript here).
Episode 80 - Dr. Ellen Nakamura (Auckland)
Episode 79 - Dr. Steven Ericson (Dartmouth)
Episode 78 - Dr. Taka Oshikiri (UWI-Mona)
Episode 77 - Dr. James Huffman (Wittenberg)
Episode 76 - Dr. Sayaka Chatani (NUS)
Episode 75 - Dr. Jonathan Reynolds (Columbia)
Episode 74 - Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu (UBC)
Episode 73 - Dr. Simon Partner (Duke)
Episode 72 - Dr. Ayako Yoshimura (Chicago)
Episode 71 - Dr. Michael Dylan Foster (UC Davis)
Episode 70 - Dr. Noriko Aso (UCSC)
Episode 69 - Dr. Kerim Yasar (USC)
Episode 68 - Dr. Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Williams)
Episode 67 - Dr. Brian McVeigh
Episode 66 - Dr. Merry White (Boston)
Episode 65 - Dr. Marco Tinello (Hōsei)
Episode 64 - Dr. Tze Loo (Richmond)
Episode 63 - Dr. Mark McNally (Hawaii)
Episode 62 - Dr. Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke)
Episode 61 - Dr. Kazuhiro Oharazeki (Setsunan)
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