2 August 2011
This book consists of a series of studies about Japanese shipping and shipbuilding. These are of interest to anyone specialising in Japanese economic history. It includes chapters on the rise of Japan’s modern shipping industry, the development of Japanese shipping industries in post-war Japan, Japan’s merchant marine and Japanese shipbuilding.
24 May 2011
by Penelope Francks Cambridge University Press, 2009, 249 pages including index and references, ISBN 978-0521-69932-7 (soft back) Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Penelope Francks is an honorary lecturer in Japanese studies in the department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. She has specialized in the study of Japanese economic history. Most books [...]
1 September 2009
Edited by Glenn D Hook
Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/RoutledgeCurzon Series, Abingdon,2005, 288 pages, 978-0-415-36419-5
Review by Roger Buckley
2 July 2009
By Eiji Takahashi (高 橋 英 治)
Chuokeizaisha, Tokyo, 2008, 312 pages, ISBN978-4-502-96390-2
Review by Manabu Matsunaka
1 July 2009
By Hans Brinckman
Tuttle, Tokyo and Singapore, 2008, 212 pages including index, glossary and plate section, ISBN-13:978-4-8053-1002-1
Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
1 July 2009
By Shodo Mizuki, Kobunsha Shinsho, 2007, 217 pages, ISBN-10: 4334034233 (700 yen)
Review by Fumiko Halloran
1 May 2009
By Yoichi Takahashi
Kodansha, March 2008 (11th printing in August 2008), 282 pages, 1700 yen
Review by by Fumiko Halloran
1 January 2009
By Peter N. Davies
Global Oriental, 2008, 514 pages including index and appendices, plus a CD of the letters, Hardback £75. ISBN 978-1-905246.
Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi
1 December 2008
Edited by Ruth Taplin
Routledge, September 2007, 244 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0415428910. Hardback £75
Review by James Brewer
1 December 2008
By Mitani Hiroshi, translated by David Noble
I-House Press, 2006, 356 pages including notes and index, ISBN 978-4-903452-06-7, 3000 Yen
Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi