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Category: Economic

Economic History

1980s/Current/Recent Events/East vs West/Economic/Economics/Japan/US-Japan

President Trump’s Historical Consciousness: Bowling Ball Edition

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

President Trump, at a recent event, recycled an old chestnut I haven’t heard in years He accused Japan of using gimmicks to deny U.S. auto companies acces...

Economic/Propaganda/昭和

When desperate to stabilize the currency

Posted on December 17, 2010 by sayaka / 2 Comments

I encountered these pages when I was flipping through a thick, unsorted bunch of materials regarding the industrial campaigns that the youth associations conduc...

1945-1950/1960s/Contemporary/Economic/General/Korea-Japan/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Generating Power–Electric, hydroelectric, thermal (coal), atomic

Posted on February 15, 2010 by John P. DiMoia / 7 Comments

I’m back once again to this question of electricity and power in its various forms, as I think the long-term story of generating power in NE Asia (1880...

Current/Recent Events/Economic/Events/Japan/US-Japan/平成

America’s “Lost Decade”

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Paul Krugman wrote a column in which he argued that the last decade in the US has been a waste of time, economically speaking: But from an economic point of vie...

Academia/bibliography/Current/Recent Events/Economic/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/Pedagogy/Teaching

Adjusting to the new narrative

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

My China-side colleague, Alan Baumler, noted that China seems to have supplanted Japan as the go-to model for economic development. This has, he says, required ...

Economic/Japan

The (Ongoing) Economic Crisis

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 2 Comments

One of my students is doing a summer research project on the Japanese financial crisis of the 1990s and we just looked at Jon Woronoff’s book The Japanese...

Economic/General/Japan/Pedagogy/Translation/江戸

When translating, leave currency in the original units

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’m using Ivan Morris’ translation of Saikaku’s The Life of an Amorous Woman and other Writings this semester1, but one thing which is bugging...

Current/Recent Events/Economic/General/Japan/US-Japan/平成

Macroeconomics never gives you more than an overview

Posted on March 5, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Stephen Roach, Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia has an op-ed in the New York Times (UPDATE: reprinted in Japan Focus) arguing that Japan’s post-bubble rece...

1970s/Contemporary/Economic/General/Labor/Politics

KTX female attendants – “contingent labour” fights back

Posted on July 16, 2007 by noja / 4 Comments

There was a time in Korean labour movement history in the 1970s when it were the female workers who actually led the most militant part of the struggle. The rea...

Economic/General/Korea/Labor/Late Chosŏn

Sell yourself

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Owen / 2 Comments

“Selling yourself” – one of those phrases we use in a somewhat metaphorical sense, but which nonetheless has a more literal meaning than we pr...

1960s/Economic/Politics

“Mass-based dictatorship”? A little info on S. Korea’s welfare policies in the 1960s

Posted on July 27, 2006 by noja / 0 Comment

In South Korean academia, one of the most long-standing and productive discussions (I have been following it for around 3 years now, but it may have begun even ...

Books and Articles/Conferences/Economic/English/US-Korea

Prof. Yi Hŏnch’ang (이헌창) and his “Outline of Korean Economic History”

Posted on July 10, 2006 by noja / 4 Comments

A couple of days ago, I had the happy opportunity to meet Prof. Yi Hŏnch’ang (이헌창, 고려대), one of Korea’s leading economical historians. The meeting t...

Contemporary/Economic/General/Nationalism/US-Korea

Manifesto from the Suyu Research Institute on the S.Korea-USA FTA plans – The Twilight of Empire?

Posted on May 12, 2006 by noja / 10 Comments

Dear colleagues, Below I put the English text of the manifesto penned by two of the most promising post-nationalist scholars I know in South Korea, namely Dr. K...

Cultural/Economic/General/Korea/Military/Nationalism/North Korea/Politics

Thoughts on Yusin

Posted on January 21, 2006 by jiyulkim / 3 Comments

Readers here might be interested in giving thoughts about a query and my comment regarding Yusin on the Korean Studies Discussion List by Dr. Alon Levkowitz. Hi...

Economic/Korea/Labor/Late Chosŏn

Wages

Posted on January 2, 2006 by Owen / 2 Comments

Just a nugget of information I thought I might throw out to our readers, all comments or reflections are welcome: It seems that unskilled wage labourers in late...

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