| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,090,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This research project reexamines the influence of the international environment at the turn of the 20th century on the rapid development of the modern Japanese railway industry. We employ a multi-archival approach, examining primary source materials from Japan, the United States, and England, with a special focus on how railway materials were imported from western countries to Japan. We show that Japanese railways were able to purchase locomotives and other railway materials of high quality, with short delivery dates and low prices, due to severe competition between British, American, and German makers. This was one of the factors behind the high growth of the Japanese railway industry at the turn of the 20th century.
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