ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to explore the reasons why the mechanized factory was established in the domestic market-oriented silk-weaving district in Japan after the First World War. Whereas the export-oriented silk-weaving districts adopted the factory system based on power looms in the early stage of development, the putting-out system based on hand looms was dominant in the traditional silk-weaving districts, whose products were almost all for the domestic market. In the 1910s, some traditional districts upgraded the puttingout system through concentration on out-weaver per clothier (Nakabayashi 2003).
