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Japan and Singapore in the world economy : Japan's economic advance into Singapore, 1870-1965 / Shimizu Hiroshi and Hirakawa Hitoshi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Japanese Series: Routledge studies in the modern history of AsiaPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 279 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203212967
  • 0203212967
  • 9780415192361
  • 0415192366
  • 0585451710
  • 9780585451718
Other title:
  • Japan's economic advance into Singapore, 1870-1965
Uniform titles:
  • Karayukisan to keizai shinshutsu. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Japan and Singapore in the world economy.DDC classification:
  • 337.5205957 21
LOC classification:
  • HF1602.15.S55 S5513 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates and maps; List of figures and tables; Abbreviations; Explanatory notes; Preface and acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction; Emergence of Singapore and Japan in the world economy; Rise of modern Japan and Japanese emigration; Karayuki-san and Japan's economic advance into Singapore; Background to the emergence of prostitution in British Malaya; The role of karayuki-san in Japan's economic advance; Decline and abolition of Japanese prostitution; Concluding remarks; Japan's trade expansion into British Malaya: with special reference to Singapore.
Summary: Using a variety of published and unpublished material, this work examines Japan's economic activities in Singapore, analysing the role of Japanese prostitutes, Kobe's overseas Chinese and the Lee Kwan Yew regime's policy towards Japan.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-268) and index.

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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates and maps; List of figures and tables; Abbreviations; Explanatory notes; Preface and acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction; Emergence of Singapore and Japan in the world economy; Rise of modern Japan and Japanese emigration; Karayuki-san and Japan's economic advance into Singapore; Background to the emergence of prostitution in British Malaya; The role of karayuki-san in Japan's economic advance; Decline and abolition of Japanese prostitution; Concluding remarks; Japan's trade expansion into British Malaya: with special reference to Singapore.

Using a variety of published and unpublished material, this work examines Japan's economic activities in Singapore, analysing the role of Japanese prostitutes, Kobe's overseas Chinese and the Lee Kwan Yew regime's policy towards Japan.

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