A Japanese Entrepreneur on Business in America

[A General Survey of the US] Beikoku tsukan

Mizutani, Tomotsune

Publication: Tokyo: Yihikaku Shobo Hatsubai, 1900 (Meiji 33). First Edition.

Notes: An economic survey of the United States, covering geography, the political system, transportation, banking, insurance, agriculture (including chapters on specific crops), manufacturing (with sections devoted to more than twenty separate industries), newspapers, and religion, plus an appendix on Canada. The book makes few references to Japanese already in the US and is aimed at investors and entrepreneurs in Japan.

Mizutani (styled as Mizutany in the US) was the Chicago representative of the Japan Central Tea Traders Association in the 1890s, As a principal of Gottlieb, Mizutany & Co. and later T. Mizutany & Co., he imported tea from Japan for decades.

12, 14, 832 pages.

OCLC: 38313444, 672477852

Edition + Condition: First edition. A very good copy; no publisher's slipcase or sleeve.

Item No: #361865

Price: $1,000