Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan

by Timothy M. Yang

Book Overview

Winner of the 2022 Hagley Prize in Business History

In A Medicated Empire, Timothy M. Yang explores the history of Japan's pharmaceutical industry in the early twentieth century through a close account of Hoshi Pharmaceuticals, one of East Asia's most influential drug companies from the late 1910s through the early 1950s. Focusing on Hoshi's connections to Japan's emerging nation-state and empire as well as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501756249
• ISBN13: 9781501756245
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up