Hunter, Janet

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  • Hunter, Janet (2026). Review: Japanese Capitalism and Entrepreneurship: A History of Business from the Tokugawa Era to the Present , by Pierre-Yves Donzé and Julia S. Yongue. The Journal of Japanese Studies, 52(1), 289 - 294. https://doi.org/10.1525/jjs.2026.52.1.289
  • Hunter, Janet (2024). Book review: Discovering women's voices: the lives of modern Japanese silk mill workers in their own words | By Sandra Schaal. Pacific Affairs, 97(3), 662 - 664.
  • Hunter, Janet (2024). Thinking about the economic consequences of the Great Kantō earthquake. Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 21(8). picture_as_pdf
  • Hunter, Janet (2024). Mobilising human resources to build a national communications network: the case of Japan before the Pacific War. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186324000075 picture_as_pdf
  • Hunter, Janet (2023). Thinking about the economic consequences of the Great Kanto Earthquake. Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 21(8). picture_as_pdf
  • Boland, Michael, Grant, Yasmin, Kovacevic, Lana, Hunter, Janet, Henry, Frank, Wood, Simon, Mossialos, Elias, Thiruchelvam, Paul, Leff, Daniel (2023). Assessing the patient-level costs of staged versus immediate autologous breast reconstruction in patients with breast cancer. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 30(SUPPL 2), S613-S614.
  • Hunter, Janet, Ogasawara, Kota (2018). Price shocks in regional markets: Japan's great Kantō Earthquake of 1923. Economic History Review, https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12775
  • Hunter, Janet (2017). Book review: Alex Bates: the culture of the quake: the great Kantō earthquake and Taishō Japan. (Michigan monograph series in Japanese studies 78.) viii, 220 pp. Ann Arbor: center for Japanese studies, University of Michigan, 2015. $25. ISBN 9781929280865. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 79(3), 701-703. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X16000756
  • Hunter, Janet (2015). Earthquakes in Japan: a review article. Modern Asian Studies, 50(1), 415-435. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X15000219
  • Hunter, Janet (2015). Introduction: special section: “regime change in public finance: the case of interwar Japan”. Asiatische Studien - Études Asiatiques, 69(2), 419-422. https://doi.org/10.1515/asia-2015-0024
  • Hunter, Janet (2014). "Extreme confusion and disorder"? the Japanese economy in the great Kantō earthquake of 1923. Journal of Asian Studies, 73(3), 753-773. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911814000497
  • Hunter, Janet (2014). Reviving the Kansai cotton industry: engineering expertise and knowledge sharing in the early Meiji period. Japan Forum, 26(1), 65-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/09555803.2013.828767
  • Hunter, Janet (2011). Technology transfer and the gendering of communications work: Meiji Japan in comparative historical perspective. Social Science Japan Journal, 14(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyq005
  • Hunter, Janet (2010). Gender and labour history: some methodological suggestions. Japanese Journal of Labour Studies, 600,
  • Hunter, Janet (2010). Nature, markets and state response: the drought of 1939 in Japan and Korea. Australian Economic History Review, 50(1), 80-98. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8446.2009.00273.x
  • Hunter, Janet (2003). The economic development of modern Japan. Business History, 45(1), 151-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/713999295
  • Hunter, Janet E. (2000). All change for Japanese women? Euro-Japanese Journal, 7(1).
  • Hunter, Janet (2000). The roots of divergence? Some comments on Japan in the "axial age", 1750-1850. Itinerario, XXIV(3/4), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0165115300014509
  • Hunter, Janet (1977). Japanese government policy, business opinion and the Seoul-Pusan railway. Modern Asian Studies, 11(4), 573-599. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00000573
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  • Hunter, Janet (2016). 'Deficient in commercial morality'? Japan in global debates on business ethics in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58682-7
  • Francks, Penelope, Hunter, Janet (Eds.) (2011). The historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hunter, Janet E., Abe, Takeshi, Tanimoto, Masayuki, Nakabayashi, Masaki, Hashino, Tomoko, Enoki, Kazue (2008). Nihon no kōgyōka to josei rōdō : senzenki no sen'i sangyō / 日本の工業化と女性労働 : 戦前期の繊維産業. Yūhikaku.
  • Hunter, Janet, Storz, Cornelia (2006). Institutional and technological change in Japan’s economy : past and present. Routledge.
  • Hunter, Janet (2003). Women and the labour market in Japan’s industrialising economy: the textile industry before the pacific war. RoutledgeCurzon (Firm).
  • Hunter, Janet, Sugiyama, S (2002). The history of Anglo-Japanese relations, 1600-2000. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hunter, Janet (2000). Japanese economic history, 1930-1960. Routledge.
  • Hunter, Janet (Ed.) (1999). Japan: state and people in the twentieth century, papers presented at the STICERD 20th anniversary symposium. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Akita, Shigeru (1995). Japanese perspectives on imperialism in Asia. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Lewis, Colin M., Hunter, Janet, Harriss, John (Eds.) (1995). The new institutional economics and third world development. Routledge.
  • Hunter, Janet (1993). Japanese women working. Routledge.
  • Hunter, Janet, Morley, James, Nakamura, Takafusa (1989). Interwar Japan. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Hunter, Janet (1989). The emergence of modern Japan : an introductory history since 1853. Longman.
  • Beasley, W. G., Wong, J. Y., Miyake, Masaki (1987). Aspects of pan-Asianism. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Francks, Penelope (1986). Aspects of the relationship between agriculture and industrialisation in Japan. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
  • Hunter, Janet (1984). Concise dictionary of modern Japanese history. University of California Press.
  • Hunter, Janet, Checkland, Oliver, Daniels, Gordon, Lehmann, J-P (1981). Bakumatsu and Meiji: studies in Japan’s economic and social history. International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines.
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  • Hunter, Janet (2020). 1868-nen kara 1945-nen made no Nihon Josei o Meguru Keizaishi o Kangaeru: Approaches to the Economic History of Japanese Women, 1868–1945. In Tomida, H., Daniels, G. & Yokoyama, C. (Eds.), Kokusaiteki Shiya kara Miru Kindai Nihon no Joseishi: Seiji Keizai, Rōdō, Sekushuariti . Keio University Press.
  • Hunter, Janet (2019). Modern business and the rise of the Japanese middle classes. In Dejung, C., Motadel, D. & Osterhammel, J. (Eds.), The global bourgeoisie: the rise of the middle classes in the age of empire . Princeton University Press.
  • Hunter, Janet, Jones, Geoffrey (2019). Ethical business, corruption and economic development in comparative perspective. In Colpan, A. M. & Jones, G. (Eds.), Business, Ethics, and Institutions: the Evolution of Turkish Capitalism in Global Perspectives . Routledge.
  • Hunter, Janet (2018). Modern business and the rise of the Japanese middle classes. In Dejung, C., Motadel, D. & Osterhamme, J. (Eds.), Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective . Princeton University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Hunter, Janet (2017). Obtaining wealth through fair means': putting Shibusawa Eiichi's views on business morality in context. In Fridenson, P. (Ed.), Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective (Japan and Global Society) (pp. 93-120). Toronto University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Hunter, Janet, Nish, Ian (2016). Japan at the LSE. In Kornicki, P. & Cortazzi, H. (Eds.), Japanese studies in Britain. A survey and history (pp. 128-138). Renaissance Books.
  • Hunter, Janet (2016). Minshu to Yubinkyoku: Kingendai Nihon ni okeru Shohi Katsudo to Yubin Saabisu. In Francks, P. & Hunter, J. (Eds.), Rekishi no Naka no Shohisha: Kindai Nihon ni okeru Shohi to Nichijo Seikatsu (pp. 259-282). Hosei University Press.
  • Francks, P, Hunter, Janet (2016). Rekishi no Naka no Shohisha: Kindai Nihon ni okeru Shohi to Nichijo Seikatsu. In Francks, P. & Hunter, J. (Eds.), Rekishi no Naka no Shohisha: Kindai Nihon ni okeru Shohi to Nichijo Seikatsu (pp. 1-25). Hosei University Press.
  • Hunter, Janet (2015). Michio Morishima: an economist made in Japan. In Japan and Britain: Biographical Portraits IX . Renaissance Books.
  • Hunter, Janet (2014). Entrepreneurs and states in context: some observations on comparative entrepreneurship and industrialisation from Japan, China and the United States. In Glassman, J., Kimura, M. & Zhao, S. (Eds.), Entrepreneurs and the Creation of a Global Community: The Cases of China, Japan, and the United States (pp. 191-204). Nanjing University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Hunter, Janet (2014). Kōsei na shudan de tomi o eru: kigyō dōtoku to shibusawa eiichi. In Kikkawa, T. & Fridenson, P. (Eds.), Gurōbaru Shihonshugi no naka no Shibusawa Eiichi – Gappon Kyapitarizumu to Moraru (pp. 117-153). Tōyō Keizai Shinpōsha.
  • Hunter, Janet (2011). Introduction: the historical consumer: consumption and everyday life in Japan, 1850-2000. In Hunter, J. & Francks, P. (Eds.), The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000 . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hunter, Janet (2011). People and post offices: consumptions and postal services since the 19th century. In Hunter, J. & Francks, P. (Eds.), The Historical Consumer: Consumption and Everyday Life in Japan, 1850-2000 . Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hunter, Janet, Macnnaughtan, Helen (2010). Gender and the global textile industry. In Heerma van Voss, L., Hiemstra-Kuperus, E. & Nederveen Meerkerk, E. v. (Eds.), The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650–2000 (pp. 703-724). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Hunter, Janet, Macnaughtan, Helen (2010). Japan. In Heerma van Voss, L., Hiemstra-Kuperus, E. & Nederveen Meerkerk, E. v. (Eds.), The Ashgate Companion to the History of Textile Workers, 1650–2000 (pp. 305-332). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • Hunter, Janet (2009). Introduction: Joseph Needham, ‘The guns of Kaifeng-fu: China’s development of man’s first chemical explosive’. In Bates, D., Wallis, J. & Winters, J. (Eds.), The Creighton Century, 1907-2007 (pp. 159-161). University of London. Institute of Historical Research.
  • Hunter, Janet (2008). Textile industry in east Asia and traditional industry. In Stearns, P. (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World . Oxford University Press.
  • Hunter, Janet (2007). The Industrial Revolution in Japan. In Rider, C. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution . Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.). https://doi.org/10.1336/031333501X
  • Hunter, Janet (2007). Britain and the Japanese economy during the first world war. In Towle, P. & Kosuge, N. M. (Eds.), Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century : One Hundred Years of Trade and Prejudice (pp. 15-32). I.B. Tauris Publishers.
  • Hunter, Janet (2007). The industrial revolution in Britian. In Rider, C. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1920 . Greenwood Press (Westport, Conn.).
  • Hunter, Janet (2006). Institutional change in Meiji Japan: image and reality. In Blomstrom, M. & Croix, S. L. (Eds.), Institutional Change in Japan (pp. 45-70). Routledge.
  • Hunter, Janet (2005). Gender, economics and industrialization: approaches to the economic history of Japanese women, 1868-1945. In Tomida, H. & Daniels, G. (Eds.), Japanese Women, Emerging From Subservience, 1868-1945 (pp. 119-144). Global Oriental.
  • Hunter, Janet (2005). Gendering the labour market: evidence from the textile industry of interwar Japan. In Molony, B. & Uno, K. S. (Eds.), Gendering Modern Japanese History (pp. 359-392). Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University Press.
  • Hunter, Janet (2003). Bankers, investors and risk: British capital and Japan during the years of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. In O’Brien, P. (Ed.), The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-22 (pp. 176-198). RoutledgeCurzon (Firm).
  • Hunter, Janet, Sugiyama, S (2002). Anglo-Japanese economic relations in historical perspective, 1600-2000: trade and industry, finance, technology and industrial challenge. In Hunter, J. & Sugiyama, S. (Eds.), The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1600-2000. Volume 4, Economic and Business Relations (pp. 1-109). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hunter, Janet E. (2002). Maejima Hisoka, Nihon no Yubin Seido Soshisha. In Nish, I. (Ed.), Eikoku to Nihon: Nichiei Koryu Jinbutsu Retsuden (pp. 107-121). Sobunkan Shinsha. https://doi.org/470
  • Hunter, Janet (2001). Female migration and the farm family economy in interwar Japan. In Sharpe, P. (Ed.), Women, Gender and Labour Migration : Historical and Global Perspectives (pp. 244-258). Routledge.
  • Hunter, Janet (2001). Women's labour force participation in interwar Japan. In Tolliday, S. (Ed.), The Economic Development of Modern Japan, 1868-1945: From the Meiji Restoration to the Second World War . Edward Elgar.
  • Hunter, Janet (1999). Industrialising Japan. In O'Brien, P. (Ed.), Philip's Atlas of World History . Octopus Publishing Group Limited.
  • Hunter, Janet (1999). Tokugawa Japan. In O'Brien, P. (Ed.), Philip's Atlas of World History . Octopus Publishing Group Limited.
  • Hunter, Janet (1998). The Japanese experience of economic development. In O’Brien, P. (Ed.), Industrialisation: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy . Routledge.
  • Hunter, Janet (1997). A historical perspective on women in Japan. In Rubinstein, C. (Ed.), Uk and Japan : Government and Society (pp. 99-105). Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.
  • Hunter, Janet (1995). Continuity and change in the Japanese labour market: rural impoverishment and the geographical origins of female textile workers. In MetzgerCourt, S. & Pascha, W. (Eds.), Japan’s Socio-Economic Evolution : Continuity and Change (pp. 76-90). Curzon Press.
  • Hunter, Janet (1995). Men and women. In Megarry, T. (Ed.), The Making of Modern Japan: a Reader (pp. 467-481). Greenwich University Press.
  • Hunter, Janet (1994). Maejima Hisoka, 1853-1919: founder of Japan's postal system. In Nish, I. (Ed.), Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits (pp. 54-66). Nihon Toshokan Kyōkai.
  • Hunter, Janet (1993). Meiji period & 'postwar Japan'. In Bowring, R. & Kornicki, P. (Eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Japan . Cambridge University Press.
  • Hunter, Janet (1993). Textile factories, tuberculosis and the quality of life in industrializing Japan. In Hunter, J. (Ed.), Japanese Women Working (pp. 69-97). Routledge.
  • Hunter, Janet (1993). The limits of financial power: Japanese foreign borrowing and the Russo-Japanese war. In Ion, H. & Errington, E. (Eds.), Great Powers and Little Wars : the Limits of Power (pp. 145-165). Praeger Publishers.
  • Hunter, Janet (1992). An absence of change: women in the Japanese labour force, 1937-45. In Fraser, T. & Lowe, P. (Eds.), Conflict and Amity in East Asia : Essays in Honour of Ian Nish (pp. 59-76). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Hunter, Janet (1991). British training for Japanese engineers: the case of kikuchi kyozo. In Cortazzi, H. & Daniels, G. (Eds.), Britain and Japan 1859-1991 : Themes and Personalities (pp. 137-146). Routledge.
  • Hunter, Janet (1989). Employer resistance and factory legislation: the abolition of night work in the Japanese cotton spinning industry. In Yui, T. & Nakagawa, K. (Eds.), Japanese Management in Historical Perspective (pp. 243-272). Tōkyō Daigaku. Shuppankai.
  • Hunter, Janet (1986). Language reform in Meiji Japan - the views of Maejima Hisoka. In Henny, S. & Lehmann, J. (Eds.), Themes and Theories in Modern Japanese History: Essays in Memory of Richard Storry (pp. 101-120). Athlone Press.
  • Hunter, Janet (1984). Labour in the Japanese silk industry in the 1870s: the Tomioka Nikki of Wada Ei. In Daniels, G. (Ed.), Europe Interprets Japan (pp. 20-25). Paul Norbury Publications.
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  • Hunter, Janet (2012). Book review: why nations fail: the vicious circle of extractive political and economic institutions.
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  • Hunter, Janet, Ogasawara, Kota (2016). Price shocks in disaster: the Great Kantō Earthquake in Japan,1923. (Economic History Working Papers 253/2016). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department.
  • Hunter, Janet (2005). Understanding the economic history of postal services: some preliminary observations from the case of Meiji Japan. (CIRJE discussion paper series CIRJE-F-344). Centre for International Research on the Japanese Economy, University of Tokyo.
  • Hunter, Janet (2004). Institutional change in Meiji Japan: image and reality. (EIJS working paper series 203). The European Institute of Japanese Studies, Stockholm School of Economics.
  • Daniels, Gordon, Hunter, Janet, Steeds, David, Nish, Ian (2003). Studies in the Anglo-Japanese alliance (1902-1923). (International Studies papers IS/03/443). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines. picture_as_pdf
  • Hunter, Janet (1992). Textile factories, tuberculosis and the quality of life in industrializing Japan. (Economic History working papers 4/92). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Daniels, Gordon, Hunter, Janet, Nish, Ian (1990). The social history of occupied Japan: 1: some sources and problems, 2: British writings on Japanese history. (JS 214). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
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