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 60 - Dr. Louise Young (Wisconsin)
Episode 59 - Dr. Garrett Washginton (UMass-Amherst)
Episode 58 - Dr. Andrew Gordon (Harvard)
Episode 57 - Dr. Timothy Brook (UBC)
Episode 56 - Dr. Indra Levy (Stanford)
Episode 55 - Dr. Anne Giblin Gedacht (Seton Hall)
Episode 54 - Dr. Andrew Bernstein (Lewis & Clark)
Episode 53 - Dr. Maren Ehlers (North Carolina-Charlotte)
Episode 52 - Dr. Frederick Dickinson (Penn)
Episode 51 - Dr. Alice Tseng (Boston)
Episode 50 - Dr. Sidney Lu (Michigan State)
Episode 49 - Dr. Laura Nenzi (Tennessee)
Episode 48 - Dr. Eric Han (William & Mary)
Episode 47 - Dr. Jakobina Arch (Whitman)
Episode 46 - Dr. Nick Kapur (Rutgers-Camden)
Episode 45 - Dr. Sarah Thal (Wisconsin)
Episode 44 - Dr. Takashi Fujitani (Toronto)
Episode 43 - Prof. Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ANU)
Episode 42 - Dr. Timothy David Amos (NUS)
Episode 41 - Dr. Anne Walthall (Irvine)
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