Japanese Shipping and Shipbuilding in the Twentieth Century
Japanese Shipping and Shipbuilding in the Twentieth Century

Author: Peter Davies

Publisher: Global Oriental

Published: 2009-12-01

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9004212949

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Britain’s foremost scholar of the international shipping industry, based at the Centre for Port and Maritime History, University of Liverpool, here examines the growth and development of Japan’s modern shipping and shipbuilding industries across a wide range of topics, through the pre-war, Pacific War and post-war periods, to the transfer of shipping technology, the role of bulk carriers and world trade and the organization and structure of the Japanese merchant navy. Prompted originally by his research into the decline of the British industries in a global context, his focus inevitably turned to Japan which in the post-war years had replaced Britain as the world’s largest ship operators and ship owners and remains so today.

Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding
Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding

Author: Douglas Brooks

Publisher:

Published: 2021-09

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781953225009

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This is the story of the author's apprenticeships with Japanese masters to build five unique and endangered traditional boats. It is part ethnography, part instruction, and part the personal story of a wooden boatbuilder fueled by a passion to preserve a craft tradition on the brink of extinction. Over the course of 17 trips to Japan, Douglas Brooks traveled over 30,000 miles to seek out and interview Japan's elderly master boatbuilders; he built boats with five of them, all in their seventies and eighties, between 1996 and 2010. For most of them, Brooks was their sole and last apprentice. Part I introduces significant aspects of traditional Japanese boatbuilding: design, workshop and tools, wood and materials, joinery and fastenings, propulsion, ceremonies, and the apprenticeship system. Part II details each of his five apprenticeships, concluding with a poignant chapter on Japan's sole remaining traditional shipwright. This fascinating book fills a large and long-standing gap in the literature on Japanese crafts, and will be of interest to boatbuilders, woodworkers, and all those impressed with the marvels of Japanese design and workmanship.

Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers Around the World
Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers Around the World

Author: Raquel Varela

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789462981157

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Cover; Contents; 1. Introduction / Marcel van der Linden, Hugh Murphy, and Raquel Varela; North-western Europe; 2. Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century / Hugh Murphy; 3. Bremer Vulkan: A case study of the West German shipbuilding industry and its narratives in the second half of the twentieth century / Johanna Wolf; 4. From boom to bust: Kockums, Malmö (Sweden), 1950-1986 / Tobias Karlsson.

International Merchant Shipping in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
International Merchant Shipping in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Author: Lewis R. Fischer

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2017-10-18

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1786948990

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This book compiles seven essays concerning changes to merchant shipping over the hundred and fifty years between 1850 and 2000, and spanning a range of countries, with particular focus on Norway, Greece, Japan, and England. The essays are linked by the theme of change: from traditional to modern shipping; in fluctuating cargo demands; from sail to steam; wood to iron; in improvements in communication technologies; in political natures and affiliations; in seafaring skillsets; in the advent of containerisation and advent of globalisation. The overall aim is to construct a solid international context for the merchant shipping industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - primarily to aid a major Norwegian deep-sea merchant marine project. The book contains an introduction that sets out these aims, and seven essays by maritime historians which form part of the international contextual whole, though all can be approached individually.

Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1136335676

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This work examines how the navies of Great Britain, the USA, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, France and Italy confronted the various technological changes posed during different periods in the 20th century.

Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century
Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century

Author: Philip Towle

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2007-04-27

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0857711040

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After the horrors of World War II in Asia - not least the systematic appalling mistreatment of Allied prisoners-of-war by the Japanese military - few would have predicted that Britain's relationship with Japan would flourish into a booming partnership of economic interdependence by the start of the twenty-first century. This ambitious examination of Anglo-Japanese relations over the course of the 20th century charts the fascinating history of how both nations overcame many years of prejudice and bitter conflict to form a bond fused by financial, political and military cooperation. In the 1930s, many Japanese became convinced that their exports were being kept out of India by British tariffs and it was not until the 1980s that the British government fully accepted the futility of any protectionist impulse and encouraged Japanese companies to invest in Britain. Today, each country not only assists the other economically but also no longer blames the other for its own domestic problems. "Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century" elucidates how both nations have struggled to achieve stability and harmony in their relations with each other in the face of contrasting cultural identities.

The Japanese Shipping and Shipbuilding Industries
The Japanese Shipping and Shipbuilding Industries

Author: Tomohei Chida

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1780939205

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This account of the Japanese Shipping Industry treats both the shipping lines and the shipbuilding industry, focusing principally upon the economic developments, following the growth and boom of the 1950s and 60s. The perspective is wide-ranging and the authors relate Japanese shipping not only to the national economy and that of SE Asia but to the world shipping industry as a whole. First published in 1990, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

The Japanese Empire and Latin America
The Japanese Empire and Latin America

Author: Pedro Iacobelli

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0824894618

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The Japanese Empire and Latin America provides a comprehensive analysis of the complicated relationship between Japanese migration and capital exportation to Latin America and the rise and fall of the empire in the Asia-Pacific region. It explains how Japan’s presence influenced the cultures and societies of Latin American countries and also explores the role of Latin America in the evolution of Japanese expansion. Together, this collection of essays presents a new narrative of the Japanese experience in Latin America by excavating transpacific perspectives that shed new light on the global significance of Japan’s colonialism and expansionism. The chapters cover a variety of topics, such as economic expansion, migration management, cross-border community making, the surge of pro-Japan propaganda in the Americas, the circulation of knowledge, and the representation of the “other" in Japanese and Latin American fictions. By focusing on both government action and individual experiences, the viewpoints examined create a complete analysis, including the roles the empire played in the process of settler identity formation in Latin America. While the colonialist and expansionist discourses in Japan set a stage for the beginning of Japanese migration to Latin America, it was the vibrant circulation of information between East Asia and the Americas that allowed the empire to stay at the center of the cultural life of communities on the other side of the globe. The empire left an enduring mark on Latin America that is hard to ignore. This volume explores long-neglected aspects of the Japanese global expansion; and thus, moves our understanding of the empire’s significance beyond Asia and rethinks its legacy in global history.

The Handbook of Maritime Economics and Business
The Handbook of Maritime Economics and Business

Author: Costas Grammenos

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2013-07-04

Total Pages: 1184

ISBN-13: 1135134138

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This book is the founding title in the Grammenos Library. The diversity of the subjects covered is unique and the results of research developed over many years are not only comprehensive, but also have important implications on real life issues in maritime business. The new edition covers a vast number of topics, including: • Shipping Economics and Maritime Nexus • International Seaborne Trade • Economics of Shipping Market and Shipping Cycles • Economics of Shipping Sectors • Issues in Liner Shipping • Economics of Maritime Safety and Seafaring Labour Market • National and International Shipping Policies • Aspects of Shipping Management and Operations• Shipping Investment and Finance • Port Economics and Management • Aspects of International Logistics