The Money Doctors From Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895 - 1937 [first edition]

This study investigates the Japanese experiment with financial imperialism―or “yen diplomacy”―at several key moments between the acquisition of Taiwan in 1895 and the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937, and how these practices impacted the development of receiving nations and defined their geopolitical position in the postcolonial world.