Download or read book Japan and Singapore in the World Economy written by Hitoshi Hirakawa and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-06-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering work examines Japan's economic activities in Singapore from 1870 to 1965. Drawing upon a wide range of published and unpublished sources, the authors shed new light on issues such as:* prostitution* foreign trade by Kobe's overseas Chinese* fishermen in the inter-war period* Japanese economic activities during the Pacific War* Japan