日本の工業化とその担い手 : 鋳鉄管工業の場合
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It is the main theme of this paper to investigate the reasons how Japanese industry could hasten the realization of import substitution and perform economic independence in the process of industrialization in the Meiji era. To achieve this purpose the object of study is the process of import substitution in cast iron industry which played an important part to produce the pipes for water service and mines. As the period of the Industrial Revolution in England is called 'the Cast Iron Age', this industry laid the foundation of her machinery industry. On the contrary the cast iron industry in Japan could not play such a part, but it filled the demand for full equipment of infrastructure and mines. The first construction of modern style waterworks was the one of Yokohama-City in 1887. Since then it was constructed in twenty four cities during the Meiji era and the total anount of money spent for construction is estimated as sixty two million yen and the demand for cast iron pipes amounted to four or five houndred of thousand tons which was equal to thirty seven percent of total pig iron products in the period. The first construction was accomplished through importing all needed materials from England under an English officer's design and operation, but since 1903 it was performed through appropriating domestic materials. Thus it was that cast iron pipe industry grew up as an independent industry, developed original technology and performed to be entirely self-sufficient. The factors of such a success are as follows : i) Cast iron industry had accumulated traditional technology since the ancient time. ii) The application of technological backlogs within the army and navy armories which inherited the heritages of feudal lords' undertakings with modern European technologies introduced during the end of the Tokugawa-shogunate. iii) In addition to that the fundamental factor was the vigorous entrepreneurship in the private sector during the Meiji era.
- 1984-06-29
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