Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • MITSUBISHI AND THE N.Y.K.,1870-1914: Business Strategy in the Japanese Shipping Industry
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Contents
  • EXPLANATOR Y NOTES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The Historical Setting
  • Themes and Propositions
  • Coverage
  • PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF MITSUBISHI: 1870-1880
  • 1 THE FIRST SHIPPING COMPANIES: 1870-1874
  • The Founding of Mitsubishi
  • Competition among Shipping Companies
  • The Taiwan Expedition of 1874
  • 2 THE YEAR OF DECISION: 1875
  • Policy Debate: Bureaucratic Rivalry
  • Policy Debate: Ōkubo Toshimichi's Role
  • Mitsubishi's Absorption of the YJK
  • The First Directive
  • Purchase of the Pacific Mail's Shanghai Line
  • 3 COMPETITION AND BUSINESS INNOVATION: 1876-1880
  • Competition with the P. & 0
  • The Satsuma Rebellion
  • Profits and Company Structure
  • PART II: FORMATION OF THEN. Y.K.: 1880-1894
  • 4 THE ATTACK ON MITSUBISHI: 1880-1882
  • Mitsubishi's Monopoly
  • The Third Directive
  • Formation of the KUK
  • Government Motivation and the KUK
  • 5 COMPETITION AND MERGER: 1883-1885
  • The Mitsubishi-KUK Competition
  • Toward Merger: Navigating in Muddy Waters
  • Establishment of the N.Y.K
  • 6 SHAPINGA CORPORATE IDENTITY: 1885-1894
  • Personnel and the Struggle for Control
  • N.Y.K. Stockholders, 1885-1899
  • Mitsubishi's Withdrawal from Shipping
  • Financial Retrenchment and Business, 1885-1893
  • The 1893 Commercial Code and Company Reorganization
  • The N.Y.K. in the Business World
  • PART III: THE ERA OF EXPANSION: 1893-1914
  • 7 INTERNATIONAL LINES: COMMERCIAL DIPLOMACY, 1893-1902
  • The Beginnings of Overseas Lines
  • The European Line and the Freight Conference
  • 8 CHINA AND THE ISSUE OF IMPERIALISM: 1896-1904
  • Japanese Shipping in China
  • Imperialism and War
  • 9 NATIONALISM AND REGIONAL STRATEGIES: 1904-1914
  • The Russo-Japanese War and Its Aftermath
  • Subsidiary Companies and Investments in East Asia
  • Strategies for Indian and American Lines
  • 10 EXPANSION: A FINANCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS, 1893-1914
  • Competition, Regulation, and Liner Strategy
  • Capital and Shipping Costs
  • Business Relations and Industrial Structure
  • Company Organization and Dissent
  • CONCLUSION
  • Principal Themes
  • The Mitsubishi Zaibatsu, the Government, and the N.Y.K
  • The N.Y.K., the Government, and Comparative Perspectives
  • The N.Y.K. as an Autonomous Firm
  • The N.Y.K. and Business Alliances
  • The N.Y.K. and the Wider World
  • Appendixes
  • APPENDIX A: A NOTE ON SHIP TONNAGES
  • APPENDIX B: COMPANY ADMINISTRATIVE TERMINOLOGY
  • APPBNDIX C (1-9): FINANCES OFN. Y.K. LINES
  • APPENDIX D: BANKING OF N Y.K. TERM DEPOSITS
  • ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • Harvard East Asian Monographs