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This informative, multidisciplinary study provides an in-depth and authoritative analysis of the current state of one of the most important and influential societies and economies since the war.
List of contents
- Volume 1: The State or the Market?
- Introduction: The Historical Origins of Companyism: From Westernization to Indigenization
- Part 1: Structure
- 1: Hashimoto Juro: Corporate Structure and the Japanese Economy
- 2: Yamazaki Hiroaki: Introduction to Japanese Company History: Stability and Change in the Ranking of Large Manufacturing Enterprises
- 3: Tabata Hirokuni: Industrial Relations and the Union Movement
- 4: Watanabe Osamu: The Weakness of the Contemporary Japanese State
- 5: Baba Hiroji: Japanese Companyism and the End of the Cold War
- Part 2: Historical Origins
- 6: Narusawa Akira: The Social Order of Modern Japan
- 7: Nishida Yoshiaki: Labour and Farmers' Movements in Pre-War Japan
- 8: Okazaki Tetsuji: The Wartime Institutional Reforms and Transformation of the Economic System
- Volume 2: Internationalization and Domestic Issues
- Part 1: Internationalization
- 1: Kawai Masahiro: Japan as Creditor Nation: What is happening to its Net External Assets
- 2: Koike Kazuo: The Internationalization of the Japanese Firm: Japanese Working Practices and Indigenous Asian Workplaces
- 3: Hirowatari Seigo: Foreign Workers and Immigration Policy
- 4: Wada Haruki: Economic Co-operation in Place of Historical Remorse: Japanese Post-War Settlements with China, Russia, and Korea in the Context of the Cold War. Normalizing Relations with the Soviet Union, China, and South Korea
- Part 2: Domestic Issues
- 5: Osawa Mari: The Feminization of the Labour Market
- 6: Harada Sumitaka: The Aging Society, the Family, and Social Policy
- 7: Inamoto Yonosuke: The Problem of Land Use and Land Prices
- Part 3: Facing the Post-Cold War/Post-Bubble World
- 8: Nitta Michio: Employment Relations after the collapse of the Bubble Economy
- 9: Hiwatari Nobuhiro: The Argument: Explaining the End of the Post-war Party System
Summary
This informative, multidisciplinary study provides an in-depth and authoritative analysis of the current state of one of the most important and influential societies and economies since the war.
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...provides non-Japanese readers with an insight into a rich vein of research in the social and political structures associated with the historical development of the Japanese corporate economy. Through this book inventive and innovative methods of analysis are applied to analyse what is variously described as a compact form of society, corporatism, and "harmonist" organisation. The authors are interested in the minutiae and detail in recent Japanese history and have used a wealth of statistical, written and printed testimony in developing their complex thesis. This book should be read by all serious scholars of modern Japan. - Mark A Gray. Kellogg College, Oxford.
