Apipan's ways

Introduction              To understand Japanese economy in various details, many disciplines should be explored. One intriguing aspect here is a historical approach in the study of a businessman in Japan. Shibusawa Eiichi had been carefully selected for many reasons. First, it is commonly said that the present is conceived in the past and is conceiving the future. Shibusawa lived through the transition period from Togugawa to Meiji. He experienced the feudal system and its collapse to the beginning of the era of Japan’s successful transformation into a modern state, the opening period of Japan modernization. Second, it is interesting to study how a man of peasant origin developed himself to be a preeminent businessman. Third is to understand why the new regime of Meiji government which opposed to the old regime of Edo persuaded him, the man who had worked for the old regime, to join the Meiji government. Fourth, the simila...