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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2024
College Graduate School of Economics
Course Code KA326
Theme・Subtitle 日本と東アジアの経済成長史研究2
Class Format Face-to-face (partially online)
Class Format (Supplementary Items) オンライン実施回は科目担当者に確認をすること
Campus Seminar
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Fall semester
DayPeriod・Room Wed.2・5213
Credit 2
Course Number ECX5720
Language Japanese
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges 履修登録システムの『他学部・他研究科履修不許可科目一覧』で確認してください。
course cancellation -(履修中止制度なし/ No system for cancellation)
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy 各授業科目は、学部・研究科の定める学位授与方針(DP)や教育課程編成の方針(CP)に基づき、カリキュラム上に配置されています。詳細はカリキュラム・マップで確認することができます。
Notes QA342日本経済特殊講義2と合同授業
Text Code KA326

【Course Objectives】

Post-war East Asian economy has experienced long period of high or compressed growth parallel to the cold war. From perspective of economic history, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, China and their surrounding 4 regions and countries have achieved great economic growth based on industrialization despite lag in their progress. In human history this phenomenon is only observed in Easy Asia. Amidst this, Japan has constructed high-growth mechanism through the so-called investment cycle model. Through these, Japan has recorded roughly 10% annual growth from 1955 to crude oil crisis 1973. Although Japan seems like different country if we look at foreign capital inflow and high dependency on trade, it is still the prototype for high growth. Through comparative perspective, professor will clarify how these high-growth mechanisms work in Japan and East Asia, and why they had inevitably end.

【Course Contents】

Students will read Railroad Workers and the Body: Labor Hygiene in the Empire (Kyoto University Press, 2019), Healthy Korea: Infectious Disease, Hygiene, and the Body in the Colonies (Nagoya University Press, 2024), Enterprise Types and Industrial Development (Kyoto University Press 2022), and related papers. And based on them, we will explore the socioeconomic mechanisms of prewar East Asia.

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