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Prometheus bound: Technology and industrialization in Japan, China and India prior to 1914—a political economy approach

Pages 399-426 | Received 28 Oct 1987, Published online: 23 Aug 2006

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  • This has been seen as a major lesson of modern Japanses economic history; see Rosovsky H. What are the “Lessons” of Japanese Economic History? Economic Development in the Long Run Youngson A.J. New York 1972 Asim Sen, Science, Technology and Development: Lessons from Japan (Ankara, 1982). Sen argues that underlying social factors provide the relevant explanation of Japanese success.
  • The trend has been towards the establishment of single-purpose machine shops, manufacturing components by assembly line techniques. To be at all competitive a newcomer would need to overcome the high comparative cost disadvantages of a smaller operation. For a statement of the issues Parkinson Alan Transfer of Nuclear Power Technology to Australia: Problems and Perspectives University of New South Wales 1980 M. Sci. Soc. dissertation
  • Several economic historians would either fail to recognize this period or mark it as merely ‘transitional’, between neo-feudalism and growth acceleration. We would argue that this interpretation arises from the insufficiency of statistical data for the years prior to 1881–85, and that the institutional formation of this phase was essential, i.e. necessary but not sufficient, to the production of industry in the 1880s and beyond. For a discussion of such matters see Chapter V of Inkster Ian Science, Technology and the Late Development Effect: Transfer Mechanisms in Japan's Industrialisation circa 1850–1912 Tokyo 1981
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  • For examples of which see the articles in the special issue Adaptation and Transformation of Western Institutions in Meiji Japan The Developing Economies December 1977 15 4
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  • See Inkster Ian Science, Technology and the Late Development Effect: Transfer Mechanisms in Japan's Industrialisation circa 1850–1912 Tokyo 1981 on doubts as to the genesis of this phase. As to its completion, there was little of watershed character in either the political transition to the Taisho period (1912–26) or the outset of war in Europe in 1914. It could with some justice be argued that characteristics of industrial revolution remained into the heavy industrialization and imperial years of the ‘Shöwa Restoration’ in the 1930s.
  • For a summary of foreign technology and improvements in railways, see Katsumasa Harada Japan's Discovery, Imports and Technical Mastery of Railways Project on Technology Transfer, Transformation and Development: The Japanese Experience United Nations University Tokyo 1979 paper HSDRJE-12/UNUP-51). For shipbuilding, see S. A. Broadbridge, ‘Technological Progress and State Support in the Japanese Shipbuilding Industry’, Journal of Development Studies, 1 (1964–65), 142–75, and T. C. Smith (footnote 24)
  • For the patent system, see Section II of Inkster Ian On “Modelling Japan” for the Third World (Part One) East Asia 1983 1 155 187 Bureau des Brevet d'Invention, Lois concernant la protection de la proprieté Industrielle dans L'Empire du Japan (Exposition Universelle de 1900 Paris) (Paris 1900–1); Board of Trade Journal, June 1896, February 1897, various.
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  • See also Fei J.C.H. Ranis G. Less Developed Country Innovation Analysis and the Technology Gap The Gap Between the Rich and the Poor Countries Ranis G. New York 1972 312 335 For a criticism of the concept, see the very useful T. Blumenthal, ‘Factor Proportions and Choice of Technology’, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 28 (1980), 547–59.
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  • This last theme is explored in Section IV of Chapter 6 of Inkster Ian Science and Technology in History Macmillan London forthcoming
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  • For which see the excellent survey Emi Koichi Government Fiscal Activity and Economic Growth in Japan 1868–1960 Tokyo 1963 During the 1870s, land tax revenue was of crucial importance.
  • For a good contemporary account, see Adams F.O. A History of Japan London 1874
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  • See essays in The Modernisers: Overseas Students, Foreign Employees and Meiji Japan Burks A.W. London 1985 For earlier work, D. E. Smith and Y. Mikami, A History of Japanese Mathematics (Chicago, 1914); Masao Watanabe, ‘Science Across the Pacific’, Japanese Studies in the History of Science, 9 (1970), 14–19; Marlene Mayo, ‘The Western Education of Kume Kunitake’, Monumenta Nipponica, 28 (1973), 19–26, P. W. van der Pas, ‘Japanese Students of Mathematics at the University of Leiden During the Sakoku Period’, Japanese Studies in the History of Science, 14 (1975), 44–89; Yoshio Hara, ‘From Westernisation to Japanisation: The Replacement of Foreign Teachers by Japanese Who Studied Abroad’, The Developing Economies, 15 (1977), 440–61.
  • For other emphases, see the essays in Part II of The State and Economic Enterprise in Japan Lockwood W.W. Princeton 1969
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  • On the general importance of patents, see Inkster Ian Science and Technology in History Macmillan London chapter 5
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  • The most accessible accounts of educational investment during these years include Emi Koichi Economic Development and Educational Investment in the Meiji Era Readings in the Economics of Education Bowman M.J. Debeauvais M. Komarov V.E. Vaizey J. Paris 1968 Koji Taira, ‘Education and Literacy in Meiji Japan: An Interpretation’, Explorations in Economic History, 8 (1970–71), 92–130; R. P. Dore, ‘The Importance of Educational Traditions: Japan and Elsewhere’, Pacific Affairs, 45 (1972–73), 18–26; G. C. Allen, ‘Education, Science and Economic Development of Japan’, Oxford Review of Education, 4 (1978), 7–21.
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  • For illustrations, see Wilson Edward Acclimatisation London 1875 (read before the Royal Colonial Institute); G. Bennett, Acclimatisation, Its Eminent Adaptation to Australia (Melbourne, 1862), pp. 8–18; ‘M.S. Report of A.C.C. Carleyle, Curator Riddell Museum, Agra on the Proposed Introduction of Indian Silk Worms and the Acclimatisation of Indian Timber and Plants in Australia’, National Library of Australia, M. S. Room; Nan Kivell 4427 (M.S. 4060) (1870?); F. Buckland, The Acclimatisation of Animals (London, 1861); T. Hutton, Remarks on the Cultivation of Silk in India (Calcutta, 1869), (also in Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, 1, part 2, new series). In the 50 years to 1832, the Journal of the Asiatic Society published 500 papers in mathematics and physical sciences, 560 in zoology, 320 in geology, and 80 in botany.
  • A possible exception was Rourkee Civil Engineering College which emerged from the project activity of E.I.C./Public Works Department—see evidence of Peacock in Fifth Report of the Select Committee on Indian Territories 1852–53 House of Commons London 1853 questions 8090–8094
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  • The dual effect of increased demand and the introduction of foreign varieties was to introduce disease into native silk production in a range of nations, including Japan. But, in this case, the independence of both government action and producer response was such as to permit its removal through improved, Western knowledge: see Adams F.O. A History of Japan London 1874 (of the London-based Silk Supply Association) Japan Weekly Mail (January–June 1870, April–August 1871), and the discussion in Ian Inkster, Japan as a Development Model? (Bochum, 1980), pp. 56–59.
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  • Inkster , Ian . 1979 . Meiji Economic Development in Perspective: Revisionist Comments Upon the Industrial Revolution in Japan . The Developing Economies , 17 : 45 – 68 . Thus Japanese bacteriology was established by Shibasaburö Kitazato, who trained in Germany, and Masanori Ogata who had studied at Pettenkofier's Hygiene Institute in Munich and at the Pathology Institute in Berlin, and their success was determined by government activity rather than general culture receptivity—see Bartholomew (footnote 110), pp. 109–55; Milestones in Microbiology, edited by T. Brock (New York, 1961).
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