Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Introduction: Shibusawa Eiichi and the Idea of Confucian Capitalism; Global Concern for Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility; Virtue Versus Compliance in the East Asian Tradition; The Contested Relationship Between Confucianism and Capitalism; Shibusawa Eiichi's Vision of Confucian Capitalism; References; 2: Economic Change and Intellectual Innovation in Tokugawa Japan; Changing Economic Conditions and Entrepreneurial Initiative; Confucianism and Japanese Economic Thought

Shibusawa Eiichi's Blend of Confucianism and CapitalismReferences; 3: Government Bureaucrats and Capitalist Institutions in 1870s Japan; Establishing Economic Institutions as a Government Official; Joint-Stock Companies and Model Factories; Reforming the Currency System and Establishing National Banks; Leaving Government for the Private Sector; Banking for Profit and the National Interest; References; 4: The Ethical Entrepreneur as a Servant of Japan's National Interest; Jitsugyo: A New Term for Business; Distinguishing Jitsugyoka from Zaibatsu; Shibusawa's Business Network

Promoting the Message of Confucian CapitalismReferences; 5: Competing Priorities of Infrastructure Investment and Military Expansion in Late Meiji Japan; Gradual Versus Rapid Modernization of Japanese Industry; National Diet and New Avenues of Political Action; Investment in the Future Before Military Spending Now; Debates Over Potential Effects of the Gold Standard; Conservatism and Protectionism; Private-Sector Development as Means to Confucian Humanistic Ends; References; 6: Business Leaders as Civilian Diplomats in Early Twentieth-Century Japan