Download or read book The Industries of Japan written by J. J. Rein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1889, this facsimile edition makes available an important historical work on Japanese industry. It is a comprehensive survey of the state of Japanese industry at the end of the nineteenth century, covering agriculture and forestry, mining, the arts, textiles, paper, trade and commerce, including the foreign trade of Japan since the opening of the country by Commodore Perry in 1854.