This book explains in fascinating detail how economic and social transformations in pre-1600 Japan led to an industrious revolution in the early modern period, and how the fruits of the Industrious Re
Historical demography is the study of patterns and changes in a society's population before the collection of data through modern censuses. In this volume, Akira Hayami, one of the pioneers of histori
This collection of Akira Hayami’s writings in English brings together for the first time an invaluable resource of comparative primary data on the demographic history of Japan. It contains twenty key
Written by leading Japanese scholars, this multi-volume series on modern Japanese economic history has been abridged and rewritten for a non-Japanese audience. It ranges from the time when a discernib
