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1. Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

   Edited by Gareth Austin, Kaoru Sugihara

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India

   Japanese Perspectives

   By Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara, Haruka Yanagisawa

   The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history....

   Published April 10th 1996 by Routledge
3. Japan and the Contemporary Middle East

   Edited by J. A. Allan, Kaoru Sugihara

   Series: RoutledgeCurzon/SOAS series on Politics and Culture in the Middle East

   Japan is an economic power of global significance; it is also the world's largest single national importer of oil. These two facts alone are sufficient to indicate the significance of Japan's relationship with the Middle East. But in fact, Japan's particularly strong interests in the Middle East...

   Published January 13th 1993 by Routledge