The Export of Japanese Cotton Textiles into British India and Indian Merchants in Kobe of the 1930s: Reconsidering about the first Political Indo-Japanese Cotton Textiles negotiation in 1933 and 1934 (Special Issue: Various Aspects of Asian Economic History)

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  • 1930年代前半の日本綿製品の対イギリス領インド輸出をめぐる論点 --第一次日印会商(1933年9月25日-34年1月5日)の再論-- (小特集 アジア経済史の諸相)
  • 1930年代前半の日本綿製品の対イギリス領インド輸出をめぐる論点 : 第一次日印会商(1933年9月25日-34年1月5日)の再論
  • 1930ネンダイ ゼンハン ノ ニホンメン セイヒン ノ タイ イギリスリョウ インド ユシュツ オ メグル ロンテン : ダイイチジ ニチイン カイショウ(1933ネン 9ガツ 25ニチ-34ネン 1ガツ 5ニチ)ノ サイロン

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze Indo-Japanese commercial relations during the 1930s, focusing on the problem of the international rivalry between the cotton industries and the important commercial role of Asian merchants in the Asian markets. The major trade friction between Britain, British India and Japan was over cotton textile markets, as a result of bitter commercial rivalry between the Lancashire and Osaka cotton industries in British India. This paper is made based on the historical material, collected by Toyo Menka Co. (東洋棉花) that was, after independent from the Department of Row Cotton, Mitsui Bussan Co. (三井物産棉花部) in 1920, the Japanese biggest trading company in pre-war time, dealing with raw cotton imports and cotton textiles exports. After abandoning the gold standard in December 1931 and devaluing the Japanese yen, Japan decided to link its currency, the yen, to sterling in 1932. The fact, that the yen was linked to sterling at a heavily devalued rate, enabled Japan to shift her exports from East Asia to other Asian countries. The increase in exports of Japanese textiles became a central conflict in Anglo and Indo --Japanese commercial relations, and prompted Japan to hold trade negotiations with the Government of India in 1933 under the control of the Home country. The common understanding is that this isolation of Japan was intensified after the Indo --Japanese trade negotiations in 1933. This paper is to consider some conditions that maintained the level of Japanʼs exports to South Asia, focusing the Asian merchantsʼ Network. The Japanese share in the imports of British India did not decrease, immediately after the trade negotiations with Britain and India in 1933. Chinese, and Indian merchants especially during the 1930s, had a tendency to continue to deal with Japanese cotton textiles, though British merchants attempted to block Japanese goods, and tried to give preference to the goods produced within the Empire.

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  • 人文學報

    人文學報 110 183-214, 2017-07-31

    THE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN HUMANITIES, KYOTO UNIVERSITY

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