YSI – Economic History Graduate Webinar: Alejandro Ayuso

Alejandro Ayuso, PhD Candidate at the University Carlos III University will present his work: *Winners of Japanese colonization in Manchuria 1907-1945 *

Abstract:
This paper studies the Sate and business cooperation during the Japanese colonization in Manchuria 1907-1945. We use business information of the main Japanese companies operating in Manchuria and we debate on the mechanisms of cooperation with political and military elites. We find that there were two differentiated development strategies during the period of colonization according to the intensity of military intervention before and after 1932. In both periods the multinational business and the ruling elites were able to win establishing a cooperation strategy coined by the literature as Elite Exchange. This cooperation was balanced along both periods, prevailing first the commercial interests of Japanese business followed by a second period of more intense Military benefits from State control, but in both periods the elite winners stablished a balanced mix of both strategies of Business-State interactions.