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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2024
College Graduate School of Economics
Course Code QA341
Theme・Subtitle 日本と東アジアの経済成長史研究1
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 Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Wed.2・5203
Credit 2
Course Number ECX7023
Language Others
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 KA325日本経済特論1と合同授業
Text Code QA341

【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 economic growth mechanisms work in Japan and East Asia, and why they had inevitably end.

【Course Contents】

Students will read South Manchurian Railway in East Asia: The Frontier of the Railway Empire (2021), After “Manchukuo”: Thinking about the origins of China's industrialization (2023). Students will examine the establishment of the prewar economic system and the postwar reorganization process as historical premises for postwar economic growth in East Asia. Specifically, the text will be determined in consultation with graduate students.

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