Introduction: W. J. Macpherson.

1. The Tokugawa period and Japan's preparation for modern economic growth: S. Crawcour.

2. Premodern economic growth: Japan and the west: T. C. Smith.

3. Aggregate growth and product allocation: K. Ohkawa.

4. Population changes: A. Hayami.

5. Behavior of income shares in a labor surplus economy: Japan's experience: R. Minami and A. Ono.

6. Meiji economic development in perspective: revisionist comments upon the industrial revolution in Japan: I. Inkster.

7. Writing history backwards: Meiji Japan revisited: A. C. Kelley and J. G. Williamson.

8. What are the 'lessons' of Japanese economic history? H. Rosovsky.

9. A historical reassessment of early Japanese development: R. Grabowski.

10. Factory labor and the industrial revolution in Japan: K. Taira.

11. More about late development: R. P. Dore.

12. A re-examination of entrepreneurship in Meiji Japan, 1868-1912: K. Yamamura.

13. The financing of Japanese economic development: G. Ranis.

14. Saving, accumulation and modern economic growth: the contemporary relevance of Japanese history.

15. Japan, 1868-1930: a revised view: K. Yamamura.

16. Factor proportions and their choice of technology: the Japanese experience: T. Blumenthal.

17. Factor proportions and their choice of technology: the Japanese experience: comment: J. C. H. Fei and G. Ranis.

18. Factor proportions and their choice of technology: the Japanese experience: reply: K. Blumenthal.

19. A tale of Japanese technological diffusion in the Meiji period: G. Saxonhouse.

20. Technical progress in silk industry in prewar Japan: the types of borrowed technology: A. Ono.

21. Trade and balance of payments: I. Yamazawa and Y. Yamamoto.

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