8 articles in this issue
Martha Chaiklin
Steven Ivings
In the second of this two-part article I examine the business activities of John Henry Duus in the years after the Meiji Restoration. Duus was already an experienced treaty port trader by the Meiji Restoration of 1868 and from his base in Hakodate, where ... see more
Qing Xia,Pierre-Yves Donze
Although traditional industries are commonly dominated by numerous SMEs focused on their respective domestic markets, the Japanese tea industry experienced the emergence and rapid growth of large enterprises in the 1990s. This article analyzes the strateg... see more
Steven J. Ericson
James C. Armstrong
John H. Sagers
Julia Yongue
Sumiko Otsubo