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Kerry Ross, Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. xv + 234 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9564-7
Get PDFJeffrey W. Alexander, Brewed in Japan: The Evolution of the Japanese Beer Industry. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2013, xii + 303. Reprint: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN: 978-0824839536
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Japanese Company Histories as Repositories of Tacit Knowledge
Get PDFA special issue commemorating 115 years of its publication of Shūkan Tōyō Keizai, devoted its cover story, comprising some 45 pages, to a survey of other Japanese companies that had passed the one hundred year milestone. Kunisada Fumitaka advises readers to seek the kind of tacit knowledge needed to revive Japanese economic engines by reading histories of successful companies that survived for more than a century, “Company histories are treasure troves of business knowledge for turning point eras, such as the present. Read them!!” The appendices of shashi are rich in statistics, but the narrative portions of the books have their own value as primary sources as well. A well-known limitation of shashi is that the stories they tell are self- serving, extolling the feats of their founders and achievements over the years without any criticism. Those narratives can be used to derive insights into the past. Perhaps they can also be a stimulus for imagining the future
Simon James Bytheway, Investing Japan; Foreign Capital, Monetary Standards, and Economic Development, 1859-2011, Harvard University Asia Center, 2014, 286. ISBN: 978-0-674-41713-7
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Jonathan Coopersmith, Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. 320 pp. ISBN 978-1421415918
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The Mitsui Collection
Get PDFThere are many reasons why historians, social scientists, and Japanologists would benefit from acquainting themselves with the Mitsui Collection. As an aspiring financial historian, I, for one, wanted to see what I could learn about Mitsui’s role in the establishment of the early Meiji state