Download or read book The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy written by Christopher Howe and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 1999 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan's emergence as an economic superpower - one whose trade surplus with the rest of the world stood in 1993 at $140 billion - has been neither sudden nor entirely economically driven. Rather it is the result of a centuries-old process. Japan's understanding of the wider world, of trade and of other relationships has expanded in stages, each determined by both internal and external factors.