Japan and Singapore in the World Economy

This pioneering work examines Japan's economic activities in Singapore from 1870 to 1965. Drawing upon a wide range of published and unpublished sources, the authors shed new light on issues such as: * prostitution * foreign trade by Kobe's overseas Chinese * fishermen in the inter-war period * Japanese economic activities during the Pacific War * Japanese involvement in Singapore's post-war industrialisation plan * the Lee Kuan Yew regimes policy towards Japan * the 1960s Japanese investment boom This important work challenges commonly-held views on Japan's economic advance into Southeast Asia in general and Singapore in particular.

Japan and Singapore in the World Economy features in the following genres: International economics, Economic history

Japan and Singapore in the World Economy is available in Hardback

Japan and Singapore in the World Economy was written by Hiroshi Shimizu, Hitoshi Hirakawa and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis

Japan and Singapore in the World Economy has 314 pages

Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia series

£139.50