Japan's economic expansion into Southeast Asia which began during World War I laid the foundations for the contemporary regional order. Based mainly upon Dutch sources, the article reviews the interwar expansion of Japanese trade's shipping and investment in Indonesia, examines its corporate...

The author enquires how the metropolitan areas (Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya) of Japan and the Tokaido megalopolis have been incorporated into the world system, what the primary functions of these areas are in the world system and what is the form and resultant spatial dominance of the incorporation...