- modern warfare, war finance, debt sustainability
- Miller (2005: 474) correctly notes the role of the press in determining Japanese creditworthiness throughout the Russo-Japanese War: discuss. Do you think that the very realization of this made 'news' and public opinion a matter of national interest? Consider the role of rumors and 'fake news' in the formation of the modern press.
- Also, Miller (2005: 478) briefly mentions the 'propping' of Russian bonds by French bankers. What could this have entailed?
- in order to grasp the accounting wizardry (and its surprisingly 21st century touch!) explained in Ono's paper, see: Addogram. n.d. Japan’s Debt Problem Visualized. Accessed November 7, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njp8bKpi-vg.
Note: compulsory readings have been marked in bold
- Best, Gary Dean. 1972. “Financing a Foreign War: Jacob H. Schiff and Japan, 1904–05.” American Jewish Historical Quarterly 61 (4): 313–24. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23880523.
- Gower, A. 2016. “Jacob Schiff and the Financing of Japan.” Doctoral, UCL (University College London). http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1522336/.
- Gower, Adam. 2018. Jacob Schiff and the Art of Risk: American Financing of Japan’s War with Russia (1904-1905). Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90266-1.
- Miller, Ed. 2005. “Japan’s Other Victory: Overseas of the War.” In THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE - World War Zero, by John W Steinberg, Bruce W. Menning, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, David Wolff, and Yokote Shinji, 465–84. Leiden, Boston: Brill Publishers.
- Ono, Keishi. 2007. “Japan’s Monetary Mobilization for War.” The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective, January, 251–69. https://brill.com/abstract/book/edcoll/9789047411123/Bej.9789004154162.i-583_011.xml.
- Sherman, A. J. 1983. “German-Jewish Bankers in World Politics: The Financing of the Russo-Japanese War.” The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 28 (1): 59–73. https://doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/28.1.59.
- Suzuki, Toshio. 1994. Japanese Government Loan Issues on the London Capital Market, 1870-1913. London ; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Athlone Pr.
- Jacar 'Topics": The Russo-Japanese War
- Oyama, Hisashi., Gōtarō Ogawa, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. 1923. Expenditures of the Russo-Japanese War. Japanese Monographs / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Economics and History. New York: Oxford University Press, American Branch. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001153773.
- “August 10: Funding the the Russo-Japanese War.” n.d. Accessed November 4, 2018. https://jewishcurrents.org/jewdayo-grid/august-10-jacob-schiff-russo-japanese-war.
- “War Finance (Japan) | International Encyclopedia of the First World War (WW1).” n.d. Accessed November 4, 2018. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war_finance_japan.
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- Diplomat, James R. Holmes, The. n.d. “The Russo-Japanese War: Dollars and Cents.” The Diplomat. Accessed November 4, 2018. https://thediplomat.com/2012/11/the-russo-japanese-war-dollars-and-cents/.