| Author |
Shimizu, Hiroshi.
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| Series |
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia |
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Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.
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| Subject |
Prostitution -- Japan -- History.
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Prostitution -- Singapore -- History.
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Japan -- Foreign economic relations -- Singapore.
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Singapore -- Foreign economic relations -- Japan.
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Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1868-
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Singapore -- Economic conditions.
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| Alt Name |
Hirakawa, Hitoshi, 1948-
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| Add Title |
Japan's economic advance into Singapore, 1870-1965 |
| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 279 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome rdacc |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates and maps; List of figures and tables; Abbreviations; Explanatory notes; Preface and acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction; Emergence of Singapore and Japan in the world economy; Rise of modern Japan and Japanese emigration; Karayuki-san and Japan's economic advance into Singapore; Background to the emergence of prostitution in British Malaya; The role of karayuki-san in Japan's economic advance; Decline and abolition of Japanese prostitution; Concluding remarks; Japan's trade expansion into British Malaya: with special reference to Singapore. |
| Summary |
Using a variety of published and unpublished material, this work examines Japan's economic activities in Singapore, analysing the role of Japanese prostitutes, Kobe's overseas Chinese and the Lee Kwan Yew regime's policy towards Japan. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| ISBN |
9780203212967 (electronic bk.) |
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0203212967 (electronic bk.) |
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9780415192361 (hb) |
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0415192366 (hb) |
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0585451710 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585451718 (electronic bk.) |
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0203212967 |
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0415192366 (hb) |
| OCLC # |
560045760 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Shimizu, Hiroshi. Karayukisan to keizai shinshutsu. English. Japan and Singapore in the world economy. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 (DLC) 98048277 |
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