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.
- ISBN10 1905246889
- ISBN13 9781905246885
- Publish Date 1 December 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Brill
- Imprint Global Oriental Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English
- URL brill.com/product_id43936