The Economic Development of Modern Japan, 1945-1995: From Occupation to the Bubble Economy

by Steven Tolliday (Editor)

Overview

This important collection throws light on the historical development and evolution of the economy, society and institutions in post-war Japan.

It covers trends in economic development and looks at areas such as the debate on the role and significance of industrial policy; the evolution of financial and banking systems; the changing patterns of labour relations; land reform and agricultural change; and the broader economic and social structures of modern Japan.

This two-volume set brings together the significant articles around these themes, including less well-known work first published in Japan. It will be an essential reference work for scholars and students of history, economics, political science and Asian studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840645859
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication date:	01/28/2002
Series:	Elgar Mini Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	1440
Product dimensions:	6.62(w) x 9.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edited by Steven Tolliday, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of Leeds, UK

Table of Contents

Contents:
Volume I :
Acknowledgements
Introduction Steven Tolliday
PART I TRENDS IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
1. Yasukichi Yasuba (1991), ‘Japan’s Post-war Growth in Historical Perspective’
2. Charles Yuji Horioka (1994), ‘Japan’s Consumption and Saving in International Perspective’
PART II THE INDUSTRIAL POLICY DEBATE
3. Gregory W. Noble (1989), ‘The Japanese Industrial Policy Debate’
4. Yutaka Kosai (1995), ‘Government-Business Relations and Competitiveness: The Japanese Case’
A Cases
5. Dennis J. Encarnation and Mark Mason (1990), ‘Neither MITI nor America: The Political Economy of Capital Liberalization in Japan’
6. Marie Anchordoguy (1988), ‘Mastering the Market: Japanese Government Targeting of the Computer Industry’
7. Chalmers Johnson (1989), ‘MITI, MPT and the Telecom Wars: How Japan Makes Policy for High Technology’
8. Michael R. Reich (1990), ‘Why the Japanese Don’t Export More Pharmaceuticals: Health Policy as Industrial Policy’
9. Mark Tilton (1994), ‘Informal Market Governance in Japan’s Basic Materials Industries’
PART III KEIRETSU AND CORPORATE GROUPS
10. Juro Hashimoto (1996), ‘How and When Japanese Economic and Enterprise Systems Were Formed’
11. Hideaki Miyajima (1994), ‘The Transformation of Zaibatsu to Postwar Corporate Groups – From Hierarchically Integrated Groups to Horizontally Integrated Groups’
12. Kunio Suzuki (1997), ‘From Zaibatsu to Corporate Complexes’
13. Takeo Kikkawa (1995), ‘Enterprise Groups, Industry Associations, and Government: The Case of the Petrochemical Industry in Japan’
14. Ronald J. Gilson and Mark J. Roe (1993), ‘Understanding the Japanese Keiretsu: Overlaps Between Corporate Governance and Industrial Organization’
15. Michael L. Gerlach (1992), ‘Twilight of the Keiretsu? A Critical Assessment’
PART IV SMALL BUSINESS AND SUBCONTRACTING
16. Hugh T. Patrick and Thomas P. Rohlen (1987), ‘Small-Scale Family Enterprises’
17. Michael J. Smitka (1990), ‘The Invisible Handshake: The Development of the Japanese Automotive Parts Industry’
18. Kazuo Wada (1991), ‘The Development of Tiered Inter-firm Relationships in the Automobile Industry: A Case Study of Toyota Motor Corporation’
PART V THE DEVELOPMENT OF JAPANESE MANAGEMENT
19. Otake Hideo(1987), ‘The Zaikai Under the Occupation: The Formation and Transformation of Managerial Councils’
20. Hideaki Miyajima (1993), ‘Postwar Reform in Enterprise Management: Managerial Revolution from Above and the Emergence of the "Japanese-type" Firm’
21. William M. Tsutsui (1996), ‘W. Edwards Deming and the Origins of Quality Control in Japan’
22. D. Eleanor Westney (1994), ‘The Evolution of Japan’s Industrial Research and Development’
Name Index

Volume II:
Acknowledgements
Introduction Steven Tolliday
PART I INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY
1. Seiichiro Yonekura (1991), ‘The Postwar Japanese Iron and Steel Industry: Continuity and Discontinuity’
2. Shin Goto (1994), ‘Competitive Advantage in the Japanese Shipbuilding Industry: the Case of IHI’
3. Karel Williams, Colin Haslam, Sukhdev Johal, John Williams, Andy Adcroft and Robert Willis (1995), ‘Management Practice or Structural Factors: The Case of America versus Japan in the Car Industry’
4. Haruhito Shiomi (1995), ‘The Formation of Assembler Networks in the Automobile Industry: The Case of Toyota Motor Company (1955–1980)’
5. Nobuo Kawabe (1993), ‘The Development of the Retailing Industry in Japan’
6. Mira Wilkins (1990), ‘Japanese Multinationals in the United States: Continuity and Change, 1879–1990’
7. Mark Mason (1992), ‘The Origins and Evolution of Japanese Direct Investment in Europe’
PART II MONEY AND BANKING
8. Chikage Hidaka (1997), ‘A Re-examination of Japan’s Post-War Financing System’
9. Tetsuji Okazaki (1995), ‘The Evolution of the Financial System in Post-War Japan’
10. Takeo Hoshi (1994), ‘The Economic Role of Corporate Grouping and the Main Bank System’
11. Frances McCall Rosenbluth (1993), ‘Financial Deregulation and Interest Intermediation’
PART III LABOUR
12. Katzutoshi Koshiro (1983), ‘Development of Collective Bargaining in Postwar Japan’
13. Sheldon M. Garon (1984), ‘The Imperial Bureaucracy and Labor Policy in Postwar Japan’
14. Shinji Sugayama (1995), ‘Work Rules, Wages, and Single Status: The Shaping of the "Japanese Employment System"’
15. Ikuo Kume (1988), ‘Changing Relations Among the Government, Labor, and Business in Japan After the Oil Crisis’
16. Lonny E. Carlile (1994), ‘Sohyo versus Domei: Competing Labour Movement Strategies in the Era of High Growth in Japan’
17. Kazuo Koike (1983), ‘Internal Labor Markets: Workers in Large Firms’
PART IV LAND AND AGRICULTURE
18. Toshihiko Kawagoe (1993), ‘Land Reform in Postwar Japan’
19. Toshihiko Kawagoe (1993), ‘Deregulation and Protectionism in Japanese Agriculture’
20. Aurelia George and Eric Saxon (1986), ‘The Politics of Agricultural Protection in Japan’
PART V EDUCATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL
21. Akiko Chimoto (1993), ‘The Improvement of School Education and the Development of Personnel Management in Post-Meiji Japan’
22. Tamotsu Nishizawa (1997), ‘Education Change and In-Firm Training in Post-War Japan’
PART VI GENDER AND SOCIETY
23. Robert J. Smith (1987), ‘Gender Inequality in Contemporary Japan’
24. Omori Maki (1993), ‘Gender and the Labor Market’
Name Index

Editorial Reviews

'Steven Tolliday has produced an excellent sequel to his earlier work with a similar title. . .'

Prabhu Guptara

'Was there really a Japanese miracle? Did industrial policy make any difference? Is the stagnation of the last decade a refutation of all that was said about the Japanese model in the 1980s? Or just the other side of the medal? Or a temporary blip? Tolliday has done a marvellous job of bringing the evidence together from an extraordinarily wide range of resources - and demonstrating thereby how far the depth and density of English-language analysis of the Japanese economy has improved in recent years.'

Ronald Dore