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Japanese industrialization has been closely linked to foreign trade. On the one hand, much of the capital equipment and almost all the raw materials and fuels which stimulated the growth of manufacturing have been imported. On the other hand, the increased competitiveness of Japanese products on the world market as a result of technological improvements in manufacturing have been important to export expansion.
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Further Reading
Baba and Tatemoto, 1968
Kanamori, 1966; 1968
Krause and Sekiguchi, 1976
Lockwood, 1968, chs 6 and 7
Ohkawa and Rosovsky, 1973, ch. 7
Shinohara, 1962, ch. 3; 1982, part 2
Shionoya, 1968
Yamazawa, 1975a; 1975b
Yamazawa and Yamamoto, 1979b
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Minami, R. (1986). Foreign Trade. In: The Economic Development of Japan. Studies in the Modern Japanese Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18509-2_7
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