PhD student @AsianStudiesEd studying the economic and financial mobilisation of the Japanese Empire | Training Fellow @EdCDCS | Ex: @lsehistory @HKUniversity
Thrilled to share that my first peer-reviewed article has been published in the @FHRjournal ! It revisits the conventional explanation that wartime Japan’ inflation was precipitated by scarcity.
The article is open access.
Link: https://t.co/LbdJ3SEwkJ
1/11
@Brianthwong introduces the “Database System for the Minutes of the Imperial Diet.” Based on work that he recently published in the @FHRjournal, Wong shows how the #database can be used in the research of policy-making in early pre-War #Japan.
🔗 https://t.co/hCmUCINNEm
The first Editor's Digest of the 25/26 year is out now! 📚
Editor for Northeast Asian Studies @JHMorris89 introduces some of the contributions he has particularly enjoyed over the past year.
🔗 https://t.co/2MglDaeDtj
#koreanstudies#japanesestudies#digitalhumanities
TodayBrian Tsz Ho Wong (@edinburghuni) completes his series on the @NDLJP Full-Text Search System using the system to identify different locations visited by politicians in the 1940s.
Check out the latest installment, with links to part 1 &2
https://t.co/n50NTYbcbe
Now on the Long Run: 'A Chronic Affliction: Capital Mobilisation in the Wartime Japanese Empire'.
In this post Tsz Ho Wong (Edinburgh) discusses their ongoing research, supported by the EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students.
https://t.co/RY7GZrlJNj
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Take-aways:
Scarcity was not the only cause of Japan’s wartime domestic inflation. It stemmed from diverse factors, including debt financing that outpaced the nation’s production capacity and the influx of colonial currencies.
Thanks for reading – comments & feedback welcome!
Thrilled to share that my first peer-reviewed article has been published in the @FHRjournal ! It revisits the conventional explanation that wartime Japan’ inflation was precipitated by scarcity.
The article is open access.
Link: https://t.co/LbdJ3SEwkJ
1/11
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Although draconian currency controls were introduced in January 1945, they paralysed almost all transactions within the empire, and eventually led to the collapse of the yen bloc.
Very happy to see the introduction to the special issue in @BH__journal I co-edited with @JohnDWongHK and Jin-A Kang titled "The Global Economy and the Origins of Modern Chinese Business" published
Link: https://t.co/S4C1hEBe8o
50 free copies: https://t.co/26WCjUPnXz
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Who really financed #Japan’s wartime expansion?
In the second installment of his series, Brian Wong uses tools like NDL database to develop our understanding of wartime business and capital networks. #digitalhumanities#history#prewar#ww2#japanese
https://t.co/Uru8wPKyb1
Register now for the @GloCoBank workshop (26 Mar) & conference (27-28 Mar) on Cross-Border Payments in Historical Perspective at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford. For details see
https://t.co/R3Hu63Pllz
@OxfordESH@OxfordHistory
Happy to share that my second blog post for Digital Orientalist has been published. It shows that @NDLJP's digital collection is an effective tool for unearthing the lives of little-known figures such as Peter Kugimiya Iwao ペートル釘宮磐, a lifelong Orthodox Christian