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Japan under Tokugawa rule occupies a rather unique place in world history. For a little more than two centuries from the 1630s to the end of the 1850s, Japan was closed to the outside world; yet, her economic performance during much of this “seclusion” period was not necessarily bad. The conventional wisdom is that if there is no foreign trade, there will be no stimulus for growth. However, Tokugawa Japan achieved a modest but sustained improvement in living standards before the forced opening of the country into world trade in 1859 and managed to maintain the growth momentum throughout the subsequent periods of open economy. How to make sense of Tokugawa Japan’s economic performance in this autarkic period is one of the main topics of today’s talk. After taking a look in section II at the medieval-early modern transition period (from the thirteenth to the seventeenth century), section IV explores this issue. According to the latest version of estimates of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita for Japan since 16001, economic growth took off in the

Placing Early Modern Japan in World History: Growth, inequality and the state in a longer-term perspective