The Asian Merchants’ Networks and Japan’s Trade Recovery from the Great Depression in the 1930s

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze Indo-Japanese commercial relations during the 1930s, focusing on the problem of the international rivalry between the cotton industries and the important commercial role of Asian merchants in the Asian markets. The major trade friction between Britain, British India and Japan was over cotton textile markets, as a result of bitter commercial rivalry between the Lancashire and Osaka cotton industries in British India.