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Technology Diffusion, Productivity Employment, and Phase Shifts in Developing Economies. By Kazushi Ohkawa and Katsuo Otsuka. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994. xiii, 291 pp. $59.50.

Technology Diffusion, Productivity Employment, and Phase Shifts in Developing Economies. By Kazushi Ohkawa and Katsuo Otsuka. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1994. xiii, 291 pp. $59.50. - Volume 55 Issue 1

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The Developing EconomiesVolume 29, Issue 2 p. 188-194 Free Access BOOK REVIEWS First published: June 1991 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1049.1991.tb00206.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Abstract Books Reviewed in this article: The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire by Michael G. Schatzberg, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1988, xiv+193 pp. Lectures on Developing Economies: Japan's Experience and Its Relevance by Kazushi Ohkawa and Hirohisa Kohama, Tokyo, University of Tokyo Press, 1989, xv+324 pp. Volume29, Issue2June 1991Pages 188-194 RelatedInformation

In search of statistical tables edited by Philipp Franz von Siebold

I made an investigation on the history of statistical surveys in the early period of the Meiji era as a part of the research project “Estimates of Long-Term Economic Statistics of Japan since 1868” which was carried out by Professor Kazushi Ohkawa and others during my tenure of office at the Information and Documentation Centre for Japanese Economic Statistics, the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.From this study, I found two historical episodes. The one was that Koji Sugi, the first chief officer of in the Central Statistical Office of the Japanese Government, used European techniques of statistical survey to take the census of Yamanashi Prefecture in 1879. This was the first undertaking to apply the European statistical survey techniques in Japan.The other was that Philipp Franz von Siebold introduced European techniques of statistical survey into Japan in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, which was before Sugi's undertaking. He who stayed at Deshima in Nagasaki educated Japanese students at his private school and had a great influence upon the Japanese society at the dawn of a new era. It is said that he taught his students how to interpret European style statistical and tables how to use statistical survey techniques.He also made the statistical tables of the Japanese-Dutch trade and the rice production, prices, and populations in Japan by using documents in the Dutch merchant office at Deshima. Although he had a plan to include these statistical tables in his masterpiece “Nippon”, which was published after he was expeled from Japan and returned to the Netherlands, he couldn't succeed in accomplishing it.A massive amount of the materials collected by him in Japan were scattered in the Netherlands, Germany and England. Parts of his materials including his manuscripts for “Nippon”，however, were fortunately preserved under the name of Die Sieboldiana-Sammlung at the Ostasien-Instituts der Ruhr-Univasitat in Bochum, West Germany. With the assistance of Dr. Vera Schmidt who had completed the drafts of the precise descriptive catalogue of the collection, I made a visit to the Insituts in September 1988 and found almost all the statistical tables edited by Siebold which I had been searching for a long time. It is my desire that these statistical tables would make some contribution to the Siebold study from a social science viewpoint in Japan.

Japan and the Developing Countries. Edited by Kazushi Ohkawa and Gustav Ranis. New York: Basil Blackwell, 1985. Pp. viii, 456. $45.00.

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Understanding the third world Global Challenge: From Crisis to Cooperation: Breaking the North‐South Stalemate Socialist International London: Pan. 1985. 222pp. £2.95pb Third World: Development or Crisis? Third World Network Penang, Malaysia: Third World Network. 1985. 84pp. $2.00pb Political Change and Underdevelopment: A Critical Introduction to Third World Politics Vicky Randall and Robin Theobald London: Macmillan. 1985. 219pp. £15.00hb/£5.95pb Interpreting the Third World: Politics, Economics and Social Issues Jacqueline A Braveboy‐Wagner New York: Praeger. 1986. 356pp. $39.95 The Third World in Perspective H A Reitsma and J M G Kleinpenning Assen, Netherlands: Van Gorcum. 1985. 446pp. DF175 Interpreting disaster relief International Humanitarian Assistance: Disaster Relief Actions in International Law and Organisation P Macalister‐Smith Dordrecht, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff. 1985. 244pp. £33.00 Imposing Aid: Emergency Assistance to Refugees Barbara E Harrell‐Bond Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1986. 440pp. £15.00 The politics of Latin America Latin American Democracies: Colombia, Costa Rica, Venezuela John A Peeler Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. 1985. 193pp. £24.00 Latin American Politics and Development (2nd edn) Edited by Howard J Wiarda and Harvey F Kline Boulder, Colorado: Westview (Distributed in the UK by Bowker). 1985. 672pp. £57.25 New Social Movements and the State in Latin America Edited by David Slater Dordrecht, Netherlands: Foris Publications. 1985. 295pp. £7.95pb Politics, Policies and Economic Development in Latin America Edited by Robert Wesson Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press. 1984. 262pp. n/p Nationalisation—A Road to Socialism? Dianne Bolton London: Zed Books, 1985. 178pp. £6.50pb The Gulf and the Search for Strategic Stability: Saudi Arabia, the Military Balance in the Gulf, and Trends in the Arab‐Israeli Military Balance Anthony H Cordesman London: Mansell. 1984. 1041pp. £23.00 Gulf Security into the 1980s: Perceptual and Strategic Dimensions Edited by Robert B Darius, John W Amos II and Ralph H Magnus Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press. 1984. 134pp. £21.50. £8.75pb US Policy in the Gulf 1968–77: Aftermath of British Withdrawal Hussein Sirriyeh London: Ithaca Press. 1984. 297pp. £14.20 Coffee and the Growth of Agrarian Capitalism in Nineteenth Century Puerto Rico Laird W Bergad Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1983. 242pp. £23.90. £12.60pb The Disappeared: Voices From a Secret War John Simpson and Jana Bennett London: Robson Books. 1985. 416pp. £12.95 Church and Politics in Chile: Challenges to Modern Catholicism Brian H Smith Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1983. 383pp. £25.95. £8.50pb Institutional Reform and Economic Development in the Chinese Countryside Edited by Keith Griffin London: Macmillan. 1984. 336pp. £25.00. £8.95pb Refugees and Development Edited by Ernest E Boesch and Armin M F Goldschmidt Baden‐Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. 1983.140pp. np. Tradition and Dynamism among Afghan Refugees: A Report on Income‐generating Activities for Afghan Refugees in Pakistan Geneva: International Labour Office. 1983. 174pp. £5.70pb The Church in Brazil—The Politics of Religion Thomas C Bruneau Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. 1982. 235pp. £22.95 Transnational Corporations versus the State: The Political Economy of the Mexican Auto Industry Edited by Douglas C Bennett and Kenneth E Sharpe Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. 1985. 300pp. £30.20. £7.20pb The Growth of Manufacturing Industry in Tanzania: An Economic History M S Silver Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1984. 322pp. £25.00 The Making of Foreign Policy in China: Structure and Process A Doak Barnett London: I B Tauris. 1985. 173pp. £16.95 Japan and the Developing Countries Edited by Kazushi Ohkawa and Gustav Ranis Oxford: Basil Blackwell. 1985. 456pp. £17.50 Pretoria's Praetorians: Civil‐Military Relations in South Africa Philip H Frankel Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1984. 215pp. £25.00 The Economies of the West Bank and Gaza Strip Fawzi A Gharaibeh Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1985. 182pp. £19.50pb Education and Society: A Sociology of African Education Ansu Datta London: Macmillan. 1984. 213pp. £7.00 The State and Rural Class Formation in Ghana. A Comparative Analysis Piet Konings London: KPI (Monographs from the African Studies Centre, Leiden). 1986. 391pp £30.00 A Vision of Hope: The Churches and Change in Latin America Trevor Beeson and Jenny Pearce London: Fount Paperbacks. 1984. 290pp. £2.95 Nation against Nation. What Happened to the UN Dream and what the US Can Do about It Thomas M Franck Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1985. 334pp. £21.50 Third World Diplomats in Dialogue with the First World Robert J Moore London: Macmillan, in association with International Development Research Centre, Ottawa. 1985. 179pp. £20.00. £7.95pb The Political Environment of Economic Planning in Iran, 1971–1983: From Monarchy to Islamic Republic Hossein Razavi and Firouz Vakil Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1984.194pp. n/p Politics in Mexico Edited by George Philip London: Croom Helm. 1985. 223pp. £19.95 Testing Democratic Theories in Korea Sung M Pae London: University Press of America. 1986. 300pp. $27.50. $14.50pb Soviet Interests in the Third World Edited by Roger Cassen London: Sage (for RIIA). 1985. 329pp. £27.50. £10.50pb

TECHNICAL ADAPTATIONS AND MANAGERIAL RESOURCES IN INDIA: A STUDY OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY FROM A COMPARATIVE VIEWPOINT

The Developing EconomiesVolume 21, Issue 2 p. 97-133 Free Access TECHNICAL ADAPTATIONS AND MANAGERIAL RESOURCES IN INDIA: A STUDY OF THE EXPERIENCE OF THE COTTON TEXTILE INDUSTRY FROM A COMPARATIVE VIEWPOINT Yukihiko KIYOKAWA, Yukihiko KIYOKAWASearch for more papers by this author Yukihiko KIYOKAWA, Yukihiko KIYOKAWASearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1983 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1049.1983.tb00453.xCitations: 12 This paper is a part of the joint research on “Japan's Historical Development Experience and the Contemporary Developing Countries,” which was financially supported by the Economic Planning Agency of Japan and the Ford Foundation. The author would like to express his deep thanks for constructive comments on earlier drafts provided by Professors Kazushi Ohkawa, Gustav Ranis, and other members of the project. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume21, Issue2June 1983Pages 97-133 ReferencesRelatedInformation

Patterns of Japanese Economic Development: A Quantitative Appraisal. Kazushi Ohkawa , Miyohei Shinohara , Larry Meissner

<i>Patterns of Japanese Economic Development: A Quantitative Appraisal</i>. Kazushi Ohkawa , Miyohei Shinohara , Larry Meissner

THE TURNING POINT IN THE KOREAN ECONOMY

The Developing EconomiesVolume 20, Issue 2 p. 117-140 Free Access THE TURNING POINT IN THE KOREAN ECONOMY BAI Moo-Ki, BAI Moo-KiSearch for more papers by this author BAI Moo-Ki, BAI Moo-KiSearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1982 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1746-1049.1982.tb00441.xCitations: 29 This paper was written while the author was a visiting research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Tokyo, Japan. The author wishes to thank the Institute for providing him with this opportunity. He is grateful to the participants of the seminars held both at the Institute and at the Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University, for their valuable comments. He is also grateful to Dr. Kazushi Ohkawa, Mr. Toru Yanagihara, Professor Ryoshin Minami, and Professor Jeong Ki-Jun for their incisive comments. Remaining errors are, of course, the author's alone. The supporting data for this study will be available on request from the author. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume20, Issue2June 1982Pages 117-140 This article also appears in:The Developing Economies in Commemoration of Its 60th Anniversary ReferencesRelatedInformation

Patterns of Japanese Economic Development: A Quantitative Appraisal. Edited by Kazushi Ohkawa and Miyohei Shinohara, with Larry Meisner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 411.

Patterns of Japanese Economic Development: A Quantitative Appraisal. Edited by Kazushi Ohkawa and Miyohei Shinohara, with Larry Meisner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Pp. xiv, 411. - Volume 40 Issue 2

Book Reviews : Jon Halliday, A Political History of Japanese Capitalism. The Pantheon Asia Library New Approaches to the New Asia. Pp. xxxiii + 466. New York: Random House, 1975. $15.95. Allen C. Kelley and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Lessons From Japanese Development. An Analytical Economic History. Pp. xvi + 285. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1974. n.p. Kazushi

Book Reviews : Jon Halliday, A Political History of Japanese Capitalism. The Pantheon Asia Library New Approaches to the New Asia. Pp. xxxiii + 466. New York: Random House, 1975. $15.95. Allen C. Kelley and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Lessons From Japanese Development. An Analytical Economic History. Pp. xvi + 285. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1974. n.p. Kazushi

Jon Halliday, A Political History of Japanese Capitalism. The Pantheon Asia Library New Approaches to the New Asia. Pp. xxxiii + 466. New York: Random House, 1975. $15.95. Allen C. Kelley and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Lessons From Japanese Development. An Analytical Economic History. Pp. xvi + 285. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1974. n.p. Kazushi Ohkawa and Henry

Jon Halliday, A Political History of Japanese Capitalism. The Pantheon Asia Library New Approaches to the New Asia. Pp. xxxiii + 466. New York: Random House, 1975. $15.95. Allen C. Kelley and Jeffrey G. Williamson, Lessons From Japanese Development. An Analytical Economic History. Pp. xvi + 285. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1974. n.p. Kazushi Ohkawa and Henry

Growth, Trends, and Swings in Japanese Agriculture and IndustryAgriculture and Economic Growth: Japan's Experience. Kazushi Ohkawa , Bruce F. Johnston , Hiromitsu KanedaJapanese Economic Growth: Trend Acceleration in the Twentieth Century. Kazushi Ohkawa , Henry Rosovsky

Agriculture and Economic Growth and Japanese Economic Growth epitomize the growth of Japanese research that in recent years has outpaced Japan's justly famous economic miracle itself. Theodore W. Schultz, in his Foreword to A & E, describes the book as a (p. xiv); JEG is another great landmark in the study of Japan's growth. Reading these two books together is a rewarding experience. One is largely on agriculture and the other principally on nonagriculture, with certain conflicts of judgment between them with respect to intersectoral relationships. Where useful, however, JEG cites or refers to some of the A & E materials, and there certainly is a measure of methodological unity between the two books.

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Book Reviewed in this article: Japanese Economic Growth: Trend Acceleration in the Twentieth Century by Kazushi Ohkawa and Henry Rosovsky. The Myth of Population Control: Family, Caste, and Class in an Indian Village by Mahmood Mamdani.

Models of Asian development

Politics and Change in Developing Countries: Studies in the Theory and Practice of Development. Edited by Colin Leys. Cambridge University Press, 1969. Pp. ix + 289. Bibliog. Index £2.50. Agriculture and Economic Growth: Japan's Experience. Edited by Kazushi Ohkawa, Bruce F. Johnston, and Hiromitsu Kaneda. Princeton University Press and Tokyo University Press, 1970. Pp. xxii + 433. £6. The Sino‐American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction: Twenty Years of Cooperation for Agricultural Development. By T. H. Shen. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 1970. Pp. xv + 278. Illus. Appendices. Index. £6.45.

Accelerated Growth: Japan's ExperienceEconomic Growth: The Japanese Experience since the Meiji Era. Lawrence Klein , Kazushi Ohkawa

Previous articleNext article No AccessReview ArticleAccelerated Growth: Japan's Experience Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience since the Meiji Era. Lawrence Klein , Kazushi Ohkawa Harry T. OshimaHarry T. Oshima Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Economic Development and Cultural Change Volume 19, Number 1Oct., 1970 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/450470 Views: 1Total views on this site Copyright 1970 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

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Book reviewed in this article:A Survey of the Agriculture of Yorkshire. By W. HARWOOD LONG. Royal Agricultural Society of England. 1969. x+256 pages.New Lives, New Landscapes. By NAN FAIRBROTHER. The Architectural Press. London. 1970. viiiS397 pages.The Development of Farm Business Analysis and Planning in Britain. By D. H. LLOYD. University of Reading, Department of Agriculture. 1970. I53 pages.Economic Aspects of Agricultural Development in Africa ‐ a selective annotated Reading List. Compiled by E. NEVILLE‐ROLFE. University of Oxford, Agricultural Economics Research Institute. 1969.Growth and Development of the Nigerian Economy. Edited by C. K. EICHER and C. LIEDHOLM. Michigan State University Press. 1970. viii +456 pages.Settlement Schemes in Tropical Africa ‐ a study of organisations and development. By ROBERT CHAMBERS. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. 1969. xxvf 294 pages.Agriculture and Economic Growth: Japans Experience. Edited by KAZUSHI OHKAWA, B. F. JOHNSTON andHrRoMITsU KANEDA. 1970. Princeton University Press. London: Oxford University Press. xxiiS433 pages.AgricuIturaI Co‐operatives and Markets in Developing Countries. Edited by K. R. ANSCHEL, R. H. BRANNON and E. D. SMITH. Praeger Special Studies in International Economics and Development, New York, 1969. xxiii+ 373 pages.Economics of Irrigation Rates ‐ a study in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh. By NASIM ANSARI. Asia Publishing House, London, 1969. xvf360 pages.Modernizarion Among Peasants: the impact of communication. By EVERETT M. ROGERS and LYNNE SVENNING. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. New York, 1969. xiiiS‐429 pages.Change in Agriculture: the Northern United States, 1820–1870. By CLARENCE H. DANHOF. Harvard University Press. London: Oxford University Press. 1969. xf3.22 pages.

Japan Surges Ahead: Japan's Economic Rebirth and Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience since the Meiji Era. Proceedings of the Conference of the Japan Economic Research Center

Journal Article Japan Surges Ahead: Japan's Economic Rebirth and Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience since the Meiji Era. Proceedings of the Conference of the Japan Economic Research Center Get access Japan Surges Ahead: Japan's Economic Rebirth. By P. B. Stone. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1969. 206 pp. Bibliog. Index. 45s.Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience since the Meiji Era. Proceedings of the Conference of the Japan Economic Research Center. Ed. by Lawrence Klein and Kazushi Ohkawa. Foreword by Gustav Ranis and R. Albert Berry. Homewood, III.: Richard D. Irwin for the Economic Growth Center, Yale University; Nobleton, Ontario: Irwin-Dorsey. 1968. 424 pp. $8.50. D. W. Anthony D. W. Anthony Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 46, Issue 1, January 1970, Pages 210–211, https://doi.org/10.2307/2614309 Published: 01 January 1970

Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience Since The Meija Era. Edited by Lawrence Klein and Kazushi Ohkawa. Homewood, Illinois, Richard D. Irwin, Inc. for the Economic Growth Center, Yale University, 1968. Pp. xv + 424. $11.35.

Economic Growth: The Japanese Experience Since The Meija Era. Edited by Lawrence Klein and Kazushi Ohkawa. Homewood, Illinois, Richard D. Irwin, Inc. for the Economic Growth Center, Yale University, 1968. Pp. xv + 424. $11.35. - Volume 43 Issue 1

AGRICULTURE AND LABOUR SUPPLY IN JAPAN IN THE MEIJI ERA*

CCORDlNG to Professor Simon Kuznets' illuminating studyl of an international comparison of the long-run rates of growth of national economies, the most rapidly growing nations in the world in terms of national product have been the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Japan. And in terms of per capita national product, Sweden and Japan have been the most rapidly growing nations in this group. This observation naturally calls forth the question of by what process the Japanese economy ' has sustained a high rate of growth. Up to the present, many attempts to answer this question have been made. However, Professor Kazushi Ohkawa's study2 of the changes in the pattern of the Japanese economic growth are very indicative. He used a two-sector approach and focussed his attention mainly on the pattern of economic growth in the non-agricultural sector. His main findings can be summarized as follows : As far as the non-agricultural sector is concerned, in the first period, which ends about 1905, the rate of growth of the labour force in this sector was definitely higher than that of productivity per worker, while in the second period, 1905-40, the relationship was entirely reversed. Thus, the changes in the rates of growth of both labour supply and productivity per worker played important roles at different times in changing the pattern of economic growth in the non-agricultural sector during the period. Putting this and other evidence together, he concludes that a labour-