Includes bibliographical references and index.

The role of tradition in Japan's industrialization : another path to industrialization / Masayuki Tanimoto -- The development of traditional industries in modern Japan : a statistical exposition / Takanori Matsumoto -- Tradition in industrialization -- The role of "early factories" in Japanese industrialization / Johzen Takeuchi -- Dualism in the silk-reeling industry in Suwa from the 1910s to the 1930s / Satoshi Matsumura -- Factory girls in an agrarian setting circa 1910 / Jun Sasaki -- The humble origins of modern Japan's machine industry / Jun Suzuki -- How local trade associations and manufacturers' associations worked in pre-war Japan / Kazuhiro Amori -- The modernization of traditional industries -- The rise of a factory industry : silk reeling in the Suwa district / Masaki Nakabayashi -- The export-oriented industrialization of Japanese pottery : the adoption and adaptation of overseas technology and market information / Takehisa Yamada -- Industry and regional community -- The development of a rural weaving industry and its social capital / Hisami Matsuzaki -- Communal action in the development of regional industrial policy : a case study of the Kawamata silk weaving industry / Futoshi Yamauchi -- Capital accumulation and the local economy : brewers and local notables / Masayuki Tanimoto.