Japan and World Depression: Then and Now

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Memoirs of Japan, 1925–30....Pages 6-13
Depression and Protection: the Early Thirties and the Early Eighties Compared....Pages 14-31
Japan and Two World Economic Depressions....Pages 32-51
The Japanese Economy in the Interwar Period: a Brief Summary....Pages 52-67
Depressions in Japan: the 1930s and the 1970s....Pages 68-82
How Fragile a Super State?....Pages 83-110
Japanese Public Opinion and Policies on Security and Defence....Pages 111-134
Britain’s View of the Japanese Economy in the Early Shōwa Period....Pages 135-148
Soviet-Japanese Relations, Past and Present....Pages 149-154
Japan’s Economic Experience in China before the Establishment of the People’s Republic of China: a Retrospective Balance-sheet....Pages 155-177
Variations on a Pan-Asianist Theme: the ‘Special Relationship’ between Japan and Thailand....Pages 178-201
Back Matter....Pages 202-208