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... framework or model of Meiji development, including “counterfactual” analysis (exploration of how the economy would have behaved under alternative historical conditions). Ohkawa has applauded the model-building effort, but he is not enthusiastic about Kelly and Williamson's interpretation of the results...

...Hugh T. Patrick Agriculture and Economic Growth: Japan's Experience . Edited by Ohkawa , Johnston , and Kaneda . Princeton : University Press and Tokyo: University Press, 1970 . xxii, 433 PP. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS 463...

...Bruce L. Reynolds Technology Diffusion, Productivity Employment, and Phase Shifts in Developing Economies . By Kazushi Ohkawa and Katsuo Otsuka . Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press , 1994 . xiii, 291 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 510...

...Forrest R. Pitts Technology Diffusion, Productivity Employment, and Phase Shifts in Developing Economies . By Kazushi Ohkawa and Katsuo Otsuka . Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press , 1994 . xiii, 291 pp. $59.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 BOOK...

...Kee Il Choi Abstract Ohkawa and Rosovsky allege that the jump in Meiji land productivity was the result of exploitation of a large technological backlog which the Bakuhan system created in the advanced region of Tokugawa Japan, such as kinki, by blocking technological diffusion. This allegation...

... BY OHKAWA, JOHNSTON, AND KANEDA. Princeton: University Press and Tokyo: University Press, 1970. xxii, 433 PP- $12.50. This is an important book, "a comprehensive reappraisal of Japan's agricultural development and its relevance to economic growth over the last 100 years" (p. v). Thirteen of the sixteen...

... to production); and residual or unexplained growth of what is commonly called total factor productivity. Ohkawa and Otsuka look, not at capital stock, but at investment, which is by definition equal to this year's increase in capital stock. They focus on the efficiency with which investment is used, based...

... Press, 1994. xiii, 291 pp. $59-50. Professor Kazushi Ohkawa was 84 when he died, just after this volume went to press in November 1993. Written with his student, Katsuo Otsuka, this volume is the third in a series representing Professor Ohkawa's long desire to base a theory of developing economies upon...

...James I. Nakamura Japanese Economic Growth: Trend Acceleration in the Twentieth Century . By Kuzushi Ohkawa and Henry Rosovsky . Stanford : Stanford University Press ; London: Oxford University Press, 1973 . xix, 327 pp. $15.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...; Tokyo, July 1967. 16 See Ohkawa K. and Rosovsky H. , “ The Role of Agriculture in Modern Japanese Economic Development ,” Economic Development and Cultural Change , IX , i, Part 2 (October 1960 ) . 15 As contained in M. Umemura and Others, Chōki keizai tōkei, Vol...

... on productivity growth lead into the final chapter on the five developmental phases discovered by Ohkawa and Otsuka: traditional export expansions; primary import substitution; primary export substitutions; secondary import substitutions; and secondary export substitution. Throughout this book, 64 countries...

... this process, and Japanese economists have long been in the forefront of its elucidation. Kazushi Ohkawa, who died in the fall of 1993, established his reputation in this field through the watershed volume (with Henry Rosovsky), Japanese Economic Growth: Trend Acceleration in the Twentieth Century (Stanford...

... to the specialist in Japanese growth are those by Kimura, Ohkawa, Okita, and Tachi. Nicholls examines, analytically and historically, the relationships between agricultural development and economic growth. A large part of his case for emphasizing agriculture before industry is that past development experience 490...

... countries. The writers of the "introduction," Professors V. K. R. V. Rao and K. Ohkawa, divide the volume into only three parts. That is because they lump (2) and (3) above together and ignore their own contribution. Their introduction is a highly competent and detailed review of the papers included...

... ASIA GENERAL 337 conventional factors of production (divided in this case into fixed capital, inputs from nonagricultural sectors, labor, and land). Technological change is generally regarded as the major source of increased output in East Asian agriculture; this is best tracked, as Ohkawa points out...

... be heeded. ELLIS S. KRAUSS Western Washington State College Japanese Economic Growth: Trend Acceleration in the Twentieth Century. BY KUZUSHI OHKAWA AND HENRY ROSOVSKY. Stanford: Stanford University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1973. xix, 327 pp. $15.00. The book being reviewed is an attempt...

.... . 1985 . “Resource Flows from Agriculture: Japan and India.” In Japan and the Developing Countries , edited by Ohkawa Kazushi and Ranis Gustav . Oxford : Blackwell . Morris-Suzuki Tessa . 1994 . The Technological Transformation of Japan . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...

... : Iwanami shoten . Reprint of 1932–1933 edition. Notehelfer Fred G. 1971 . “ Kōtoku Shūsui and Nationalism .” Journal of Asian Studies 31 , 1 : 31 – 39 . Ohkawa Kazushi , and Rosovsky Henry . 1973 . Japanese Economic Growth: Trend Acceleration in the Twentieth Century . Stanford...

..., finds and mea- sures different technological epochs correspond- ing to Ohkawa's historical periods. Tsuchiya demonstrates that the rapidly growing post- war use of power tillers was an economically rational response to decreasing labor avail- ability rather than attributable to prestige or demonstration...

... (Takashi Kato), the general account budget (Seiji Furuta and Ichiro Kano), public enterprises and the fiscal investment and loan program (Hiromitsu Ishi), the national tax system (Torao Aoki), government bonds (Masazu Ohkawa), local public finance (Nobuo Ishihara), and financial relations between...