Papers - MAEDA, Kiyotaka

Industrial organization in the early twentieth century: A case study of the Japan Salt Industry Association

Maeda Kiyotaka

Socio-Economic History 80 ( 2 ) 91 - 109 2014.08

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The procurement of imported-acquired raw materials by food manufacturers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: A case study of the Takanashi family

Maeda Kiyotaka

Japanese Research in Business History 31   85 - 102 2014

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Competition between imported and domestic salt in Japan: The cases of chemical and soy sauce industries in the late 1890s

Maeda Kiyotaka

The Economic Review of Seinan Gakuin University 48 ( 1-2 ) 89 - 117 2013.09

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Japanese salt manufacturers’ business expansion into Taiwan and the Kwantung leased territory in the prewar period: Focusing on the Nozaki family and Dai Nippon Engyo Corporation

Maeda Kiyotaka

Socio-Economic History 78 ( 3 ) 3 - 28 2012.11

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Raw materials procurement by the food manufacturing industry during the Meiji and Taisho eras: A case study of the soy sauce brewery run by the Takanashi family in Noda town

Maeda Kiyotaka

Japan Business History Review 47 ( 2 ) 49 - 75 2012.09

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Periodical transactions in commodity exchanges during the later Meiji era: A case study of salt transactions on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange

Maeda Kiyotaka

The Journal of Political Economy and Economic History  ( 213 ) 28 - 43 2011.10

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This paper aims to elucidate the function of commodity exchanges in index price formation on the spot market during the later Meiji era in Japan. In particular, this paper focuses the function of periodical salt transactions (trading in futures) from October, 1894 to May, 1905 on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange. Historical studies of commodity or stock exchanges in Japan have tended to focus on the Dojima (Osaka) Rice Exchange in the Tokugawa period and historians have paid little attention to commodity exchanges from the Meiji era onward. However, the beginning of transactions in commodities other than rice on the exchanges after the enactment of the Exchange Law in 1893 was one of the important characteristics of 1890s when the base formation of the modern market progressed. Accordingly, hoping to contribute to a better understanding of the process by which the commodity exchange system was established as a general trading system with the rise of capitalism in Japan, I consider periodical transactions on the exchange around the early twentieth century. This paper shows that index price formation function of the Tokyo Commodity Exchange had two limitations. Firstly, periodical transaction price functioned only as an index price of Shinsaida-shio (low-grade salt made in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan) price. In other words, periodical transaction price did not function as an index price of any other salt. Secondly, the function of the Tokyo Commodity Exchange was diachronically unstable especially after around 1900 when salt consumers began to buy more imported than domestic salt. The Tokyo Commodity Exchange was one of the largest commodity exchanges and the center of salt periodical transactions in Japan. We can say therefore, during the later Meiji era, if a trader in the market had used periodical transactions on the commodity exchange to hedge against the risk of price changes, the trader could not have been able to hedge in many cases. Even if traders succeeded in hedging in the short term, they could not use the commodity exchange to hedge stably in the long term.

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The salt industry’s countermeasure against an increase in salt imports after the First Sino-Japanese War: Focusing on the establishment of the Japan Salt Industry Association

Maeda Kiyotaka

Research in the Japanese Salt Industry 32   51 - 77 2011.03

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