چکیده:
Japan was the first Asian nation in the nineteenth century which successfully implemented modernization. Therefore, to ensure its economic progress it sought new markets to sell its products. Iran, also with various motivations, to compensate for its backwardness sought to develop its relations with Japan. The present study attempts to study the ups and downs of trade relations between Iran and Japan in the contemporary era. Based on its findings, the study reveals that the First World War and the Bolshevik revolution in Russia boosted the trade between Iran and Japan and Japan became one of the Iran's top ten trade partners and the Japanese products officially entered Iran. Due to official relations, the trade activities between the two nations entered a new phase. Iran needed to be industrialized. Therefore, it hired Japanese experts and specialists to accelerate its progress. The trade balance between the two nations was equal in the beginning years of the Reza Shah era but gradually the Japanese benefitted more and this process continued.
خلاصه ماشینی:
The next study on this subject is an article entitled Trade Relations between Iran and Japan During Reza Shah (Ravabet-eh Tejari Iran va Japan dar dour-e Reza Shah) which has not used the archive documents of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the documents of the parliament of Iran (Shokrzadeh and Abadian, 1396 S.
Yoshida Masaharu, the First Marketer of Japanese Products in Iran in Qajar Period Yoshida Māsāharu was the first official ambassador of Japan in the Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah era, who under the order of Tsonetami Sano, Japan’s minister of finance, who liked to expand the economic ties of Japan with other Asian nations, came to Iran, He was sent to Iran for this mission (Furukāwa, 2004, p.
194) Two times during their conversations, Nāṣer-al-dīn Shah emphasized that Japan and Iran were both Asian nations, revealing his disillusionment about Iran’s relations with the west and their interferences in the affairs of Iran.
Moreover, a number of books written by the orientalists indicate that Iranians were interested in Japanese industries, in his book, Iran va Qazieh-e Iran, explaining Iran’s silk trade and Gilan’s silk and mentions that in the middle of the nineteenth century (1854) The growth of silk in Gilan was damaged and some silk was imported from Japan which was not good and didn't sell properly.
485) Reza Shah Era and the Approach of the Iran’s Government and Elites towards Japan Due to the political problems and turmoil, after the victory of constitutionalism in Iran, the effort for industrial and trade evolutions were not successful.
The Arrival of Low Quality Cheap Japanese Products in Iranian market During this era, Japan had become one of the ten trade partners of Iran.