The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization (Japanese Studies in Economic and Social History)

361 Pages·2006·2.04 MB·English

by  Masayuki Tanimoto

The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization
JAPANESE STUDIES IN ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL HISTORY
Edited by Osamu Saito and Kaoru Sugihara for the Socio-economic History Society of Japan
Vol. 1 Japan, China, and the Growth of the Asian International Economy, 1850–1949 (edited by Kaoru Sugihara)
Vol. 2 The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization (edited by Masayuki Tanimoto)
Forthcoming
Vol. 3 Planned Economy, Occupation and High-speed Growth (edited by Juro Hashimoto and Haruhito Takeda)
Vol. 4 The Demography of Traditional Japan, 1600–1870 (edited by Osamu Saito)
Vol. 5 Education and Modern Economic Growth in Japan (edited by Konosuke Odaka)
The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization
Another Path to Industrialization
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MASAYUKI TANIMOTO
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PREFACE
This is thesecond volumeof theseries “Japanese Studies inEconomic and SocialHistory”, edited under theauspices
of the Socio-economic History Society of Japan.
It is a well-known story that Japan's modern economic growth started in the last quarter of the nineteenth century,
transplanting the advanced technologies and institutions from industrialized western countries. Recent studies on
economic history of modern Japan, however, have claimed the importance of the aspects other than the
transplantation from west to realize the feature of the Japan's economic development. The indigenous factors, which
wecall“tradition”inthebroadsenseinthisvolume,shouldbepointedouttoaccountfor thecauseofJapan'smodern
economicdevelopment.Thisrecognitionwasalreadyexpressedasaconceptof“balancedeconomicgrowth”fromthe
viewpoint of macro economic analysis in the 1970s. Inspired by this argument, many economic historians in Japan
have considered the role of indigenous industries, executingmicro-based analysis of the industrial histories from the
1980s onwards. The principal aim of this volume is to provide the English reading academics with the fruits of this
field, compiling the recent representative works. The volume also intends to clarify the existence of “indigenous
development” in Japan's economic development that would shed new light on the conventional concept of “the dual
economy” in the industrialized economies as well as for the developing countries.
It was impossible to complete the volume without the invaluable assistance of many people. We are most grateful to
Linda Grove and Patricia Sippel for their devoted efforts to improve the English-language presentation of the
chapters. HirokiIchinoseand Kei Saito helped us as wellwiththeEnglishtranslation forsome chapters. Osamu Saito
hasgivenusadviceandmanysuggestionsfromthebeginning ofthisproject.Someoftheeditorialworkwashelpedby
Hidetoshi Miyachi. The CIRJE (Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy, affiliated with the
Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo) generously gave us financial support. We would like to
express our gratitude to them all for their contributions.
Masayuki Tanimoto
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CONTENTS
Preface v
List of Figures ix
List of Tables x
List of Maps xiii
Map of Japan xiv
Notes xvi
List of Contributors xvii
Part I Introduction 1
1. The Role of Tradition in Japan's Industrialization: Another Path to Industrialization 3
Masayuki Tanimoto
2. The Development of Traditional Industries in Modern Japan: A Statistical Exposition 45
Takanori Matsumoto
Part II Tradition in Industrialization 73
3. The Role of “Early Factories” in Japanese Industrialization 75
Johzen Takeuchi
4. Dualism in the Silk-reeling Industry in Suwa from the 1910s to the 1930s 93
Satoshi Matsumura
5. Factory Girls in an Agrarian Setting circa 1910 121
Jun Sasaki
6. The Humble Origins of Modern Japan's Machine Industry 140
Jun Suzuki
7. How Local Trade Associations and Manufacturers' Associations Worked in Pre-war Japan 157
Kazuhiro Amori
Part III The Modernization of Traditional Industries 181
8. The Rise of a Factory Industry: Silk Reeling in Suwa District 183
Masaki Nakabayashi
viii
9. The Export-oriented Industrializationof Japanese Pottery: The Adoptionand Adaptationof Overseas Technology
and Market Information 217
Takehisa Yamada
Part IV Industry and Regional Community 241
10. The Development of a Rural Weaving Industry and its Social Capital 243
Hisami Matsuzaki
11. Communal Action intheDevelopmentofRegionalIndustrial Policy:ACaseStudy oftheKawamata SilkWeaving
Industry 273
Futoshi Yamauchi
12. Capital Accumulation and the Local Economy: Brewers and Local Notables 301
Masayuki Tanimoto
Index 323
LIST OF FIGURES
1.1. Order, sales and piece rate in the putting-out system (Case of the Takizawas, 1897). 15
1.2. Yield rate and the business cycle. 18
2.1. Plots of the nationwide trends of traditional commerce in modern Japan by the Principal
Component Analysis. 55
2.2. Plots of the nationwide trends of the traditional civil construction contractor industry in modern Japan
by the Principal Component Analysis. 62
3.1. Dimensions of industrialization. 82
3.2. Japanese transformation from putting-out system. 89
4.1. Subcontracting of small reeling mills under large reeling firms. 101
4.2. Raw silk reeling by small independent mills. 111
4.3. Raw silk reeling by hand-reeling filature. 117
5.1. Commonest forms of cotton cloth production by the clothiers in Banshū during the 1910s. 122
7.1. Pottery production and export 1897–1937. 160
7.2. Straw goods production 1897–1937. 167
8.1. Relative price of filature: (Japan Filature No. 1 in New York)/(Japan Hanks in Lyon). 187
8.2. Relative price of filature: (Filature in Yokohama)/ (Hanks in Yokohama). 188
8.3. Gross margins of peasants per 1 picul of silk in 1886. 190
8.4. Silk re-reeling and inspection system of Kaimeisha from 1884. 195
8.5. Price of Shinshū Filatures and Kaimeisha Filatures in the Yokohama market 1884–1887: weekly data. 196
9.1. Technical schools in pottery-producing districts in the Meiji period. 233
10.1. Development of Isezaki weaving industry (Unit: yen). 246
10.2. Map around Isezaki. 247
10.3. Putting-out system and flow of products. 248
10.4. Fluctuation of amounts. 264
11.1. Export silk production in Date prefecture (quantity and sales). 285
11.2. Export silk in Date-gun and Kawamata town. 286
12.1. Market oriented production of sake and soy sauce. 306
12.2. Number of factories and workshops of brewery (Size-specific: volume of production per year). 307