Ioku Shigehiko cho, “19 seiki nihon no shouhin seisan to ryutsu: nogyo, nogyo kakogyo no hatten to chiiki shijo.”.

Ioku’s book uses the Japan’s Kanto region (present-day greater Tokyo area) and northern Kyushu as examples to show how, during the late Edo and early Meiji periods, market economies changed as both consumption and commerce increased massively following the Meiji Restoration. [ABSTRACT FROM CONTRIBUTOR]