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Book Synopsis Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan’s High-Growth Era by : Haruhito Takeda
Download or read book Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan’s High-Growth Era written by Haruhito Takeda and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to analyze Japan's high-growth economy, in particular to clarify the kinds of changes in people’s lives that were generated by high growth. The present volume focuses not on the macro-economic mechanisms that expanded the scale of the economy, but on the micro-economic changes that were effected in everyday life. The emergence of a mass consumption society as a result of economic growth suggests that people's lifestyles and consumer behavior changed in various ways. The first chapter focuses on the apparel industry's expanding market as it corresponded to changes in consumer behavior. Even as consumer life became more comfortable and abundant, consumers were becoming uneasy about the environmental deterioration associated with high growth. The second chapter examines how the Japanese government addressed emissions regulations while drawing on the lessons of America's experience with the same issue. The change in industrial structure brought about by economic growth inevitably resulted in the decline of other industries. Chief among these was the coal-mining industry, which, with the onset of a full-scale energy revolution, lost its role as energy supplier owing to the import of cheap crude oil. The third chapter discusses the government's industrial policies as they addressed the coal industry's adjustment in the high-growth era, concluding that they reduced such problems as stagnation, unemployment, and local industrial decline. The adjustments in employment practices contributed positively to the gradual shift of labor from declining industries to growth industries. The fourth chapter investigates changes in labor management in the steel industry, which was one of the high-growth era's leading industries. This publication will serve as a valuable resource for those who are interested not only in the post-war history in Japan but also in high growth economies in recent East Asia.
Book Synopsis The Era of High-speed Growth by : Yutaka Kōsai
Download or read book The Era of High-speed Growth written by Yutaka Kōsai and published by [Tokyo] : University of Tokyo Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes a retrospective look at rapid growth in Japan, 1945-1970. Argues that economic growth was achieved not on the basis of the distinctive value customs, and behavioral style of Japanese society but rather through reliance on the market mechanism of classical capitalist theory. Rapid growth is seen as a process in which external dependence on raw materials and a high level of domestic consumption were combined with the development of exports and technical revolution in the processing industries.
Book Synopsis Dr. Osamu Shimomura's Legacy and the Postwar Japanese Economy by : Kozo Horiuchi
Download or read book Dr. Osamu Shimomura's Legacy and the Postwar Japanese Economy written by Kozo Horiuchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book elucidates the economic conditions and policies during the post War Japanese economy from the view point of an influential policy maker. Dr. Osamu Shimomura is one of the most eminent economists in Japan. He entered the Ministry of Finance and played a crucial role in actualizing the High-Growth era from the late 1950s to the early 70s. "The Doubling Income Plan", which is issued by the Ikeda cabinet, originates from him. It should be noted that while most economists held pessimistic view on the future, Shimomura is brave and foresighted. Shimomura’s theory is not merely one of the pioneer works in macroeconomics, but also suits the economic conditions of Japan. Shimomura extends the principle of effective demand, which means that his theory includes effects of capital accumulation to production capacity. While one may argue that Harrod (1939) and Domar (1946) have already achieved that, Shimomura’s theory centers policy recommendations for sustaining the high economic growth against the productivity growth that would cause excess supply in the market. Succinctly, Shimomura is a Keynesian who believes the vigor in its private sector but recognizes that Japanese economy urgently needs the government’s auxiliary macroeconomic policies. This book emphasizes that the rapid Japanese growth owes mainly to affluent entrepreneurship filled in the economy not to the sheer government’s planning. Dr. Shimomura’s theory endorses our assertion.
Book Synopsis Postwar Japanese Economy by : Mitsuhiko Iyoda
Download or read book Postwar Japanese Economy written by Mitsuhiko Iyoda and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of World War II, the Japanese economy has seen rapid changes and remarkable progress. It has also experienced a bubble economy and period of prolonged stagnation. The book seeks to address three major questions: What kind of changes have taken place in the postwar years? In what sense has there been progress? What lessons can be drawn from the experiences? The book is organized as follows: It begins with an overview of the postwar Japanese economy, using data to highlight historical changes. The four major economic issues in the postwar Japanese economy (economic restoration, rapid economic growth, the bubble economy and current topics) are addressed, with particular focus on the meaning of economic growth and the bubble economy. The next chapters examine the important economic issues for Japan related to a welfare-oriented society, including income distribution, asset distribution, and the relative share of income. Another chapter deals with the household structure of Japan, the pension issue, and the importance of the effect of demographic change on income distribution. The final chapter gives a brief summary, examines quality of life as a lesson of this research, and briefly outlines a proposal for a basic design towards achieving a high satisfaction level society. This book will be of interest to economists, economic historians and political scientists and would be useful as a text for any course on the Japanese economy.
Download or read book The Growth Idea written by Scott O'Bryan and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth. Scott O’Bryan reinterprets this seemingly familiar history through an innovative exploration, not of the anatomy of growth itself, but of the history of growth as a set of discourses by which Japanese "growth performance" as "economic miracle" came to be articulated. The premise of his work is simple: To our understandings of the material changes that took place in Japan during the second half of the twentieth century we must also add perspectives that account for growth as a new idea around the world, one that emerged alongside rapid economic expansion in postwar Japan and underwrote the modes by which it was imagined, forecast, pursued, and regulated. In an accessible, lively style, O’Bryan traces the history of growth as an object of social scientific knowledge and as a new analytical paradigm that came to govern the terms by which Japanese understood their national purposes and imagined a newly materialist vision of social and individual prosperity. Several intersecting obsessions worked together after the war to create an agenda of social reform through rapid macroeconomic increase. Epistemological developments within social science provided the conceptual instruments by which technocrats gave birth to a shared lexicon of growth. Meanwhile, reformers combined prewar Marxist critiques with new modes of macroeconomic understanding to mobilize long-standing fears of overpopulation and "backwardness" and argue for a growthist vision of national reformation. O’Bryan also presents surprising accounts of the key role played by the ideal of full employment in national conceptions of recovery and of a new valorization of consumption in the postwar world that was taking shape. Both of these, he argues, formed critical components in a constellation of ideas that even in the context of relative poverty and uncertainty coalesced into a powerful vision of a materially prosperous future. Even as Japan became the premier icon of the growthist ideal, neither the faith in rapid growth as a prescription for national reform nor the ascendancy of social scientific epistemologies that provided its technical support was unique to Japanese experience. The Growth Idea thus helps to historicize a concept of never-ending growth that continues to undergird our most basic beliefs about the success of nations and the operations of the global economy. It is a particularly timely contribution given current imperatives to reconceive ideas of purpose and prosperity in an age of resource depletion and global warming.
Book Synopsis The Era of High Speed Growth by : Yutaka Kosai
Download or read book The Era of High Speed Growth written by Yutaka Kosai and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Postwar Economic Growth in Japan by : Ryutaro Komiya
Download or read book Postwar Economic Growth in Japan written by Ryutaro Komiya and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of the Miracle by : Arthur J. Alexander
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Miracle written by Arthur J. Alexander and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan is living in the shadow of its economic miracle. Its stagnation and decline relative to other advanced economies since the early 1990s is a consequence of business and government difficulty in breaking away from once-successful practices. The Japanese postwar economic miracle created the world's second largest capitalist economy. This remarkable performance, in the face of such enormous obstacles, helped solidify, even sanctify, the institutions, methods, and political arrangements associated with the economic miracle. Based upon a decade of research articles distributed in the Japan Economic Institute's weekly report on Japan, In the Shadow of the Miracle analyzes the sources of Japanese growth and the nature and scale of its current economic problems. Chapters examine the steps being taken by Japan's government and business leaders to address the mounting national economic problems and the impact on Japan of the wider Asian financial crisis (1997-99). A final section addresses the question of whether Japan is fundamentally different from other advanced economies.
Book Synopsis Economic Policy in Postwar Japan by : Kōzō Yamamura
Download or read book Economic Policy in Postwar Japan written by Kōzō Yamamura and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Japan's Growing Technological Capability by : National Research Council
Download or read book Japan's Growing Technological Capability written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1992-02-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perspectives of technologists, economists, and policymakers are brought together in this volume. It includes chapters dealing with approaches to assessment of technology leadership in the United States and Japan, an evaluation of future impacts of eroding U.S. technological preeminence, an analysis of the changing nature of technology-based global competition, and a discussion of policy options for the United States.
Book Synopsis The Postwar Japanese Economy by : Takafusa Nakamura
Download or read book The Postwar Japanese Economy written by Takafusa Nakamura and published by [Tokyo] : University of Tokyo Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on postwar economic development and economic structure in Japan - discusses economic recovery, economic planning, industrialization, fiscal policy, monetary policy, dual economy, labour market, wage structure, international monetary system and petroleum price implications, economic policy trends and small scale industry, raw materials, industrial structure and economic growth related issues. Graphs, references and statistical tables.
Book Synopsis How Japan's Economy Grew So Fast by : Edward Fulton Denison
Download or read book How Japan's Economy Grew So Fast written by Edward Fulton Denison and published by Washington : Brookings Institution. This book was released on 1976 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on economic growth in Japan - analyses the sources of the exceptionally rapid post-war expansion of the country, and compares the 1970 Japanese output and consumption per capita with that of other highly developed countries, etc. References and statistical tables.
Book Synopsis The Japanese Experience of Economic Reforms by : Yutaka Kosai
Download or read book The Japanese Experience of Economic Reforms written by Yutaka Kosai and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese Experience of Economic Reforms offers a renewed investigation into the process of economic reforms and stabilization in Japan after the Second World War. Each chapter reviews policy measures undertaken during this process, discusses their economic rationale, and evaluates their effectiveness. The authors point out a gradual, step-wise process and the government's emphasis on micro and supply-side issues as main characteristics of the Japanese experience. Relevance of the Japanese experience to the developing and post-socialist countries is also discussed.
Download or read book Japan's Postwar Economy written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Poverty, Equality, and Growth by : Deborah J. Milly
Download or read book Poverty, Equality, and Growth written by Deborah J. Milly and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1950s, many Japanese lived in poverty. Today only a handful do. This book explains why and how the postwar Japanese state progressed from employing responses to poverty preferred in the prewar era to adopting equality as the basis for a social compromise. The author argues that to account for why political actors succeeded in crafting a program that won acceptance, it is necessary to look beyond their interests and to identify how they relied on knowledge and normative arguments.
Book Synopsis The Anatomy of Japan's Postwar Economic Development by : Hsiung Yuan Tsao
Download or read book The Anatomy of Japan's Postwar Economic Development written by Hsiung Yuan Tsao and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the anatomy of postwar Japanese economic development. It is illustrated by the reform and reconstruction era (1945-52) and those factors which caused the Japanese economy to grow during the 1953-73 period. Furthermore, on the basis of Japanese economic successes, the role of the Japanese in world affairs again became important. However, due to the world experiencing economic inflation and an oil shock after 1974, the Japanese economy also experienced slower growth. Discussed in detail are those factors that made the Japanese economy slow down in this period. This thesis stresses the three decades of Japanese economic development after World War II. Evaluation of the Japanese economy is necessary to analyze its weaknesses and strengths which will shape its future development and competitiveness. In particular, the end of Cold War brought new kinds of thinking and concern about what type of problems Japan might face in the next century. Of course those issues include regionalism, economic strategy shifts after the end of Cold War, and intricate major power relations among Japan, China and the United States. In reality the post-Cold War challenges are also a turning point for Japan, compelling it to deal with new problems and to decide what kind of roles it is going to play.
Book Synopsis The History of Japanese Economic Development by : Ken'ichi Ōno
Download or read book The History of Japanese Economic Development written by Ken'ichi Ōno and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- An overview : evolutionary history and translative adaptation -- The Edo society: preparing conditions for industrialization -- Transition from Edo to Meiji -- Importing and absorbing technology -- Development of key industries -- Budget, finance and the macroeconomy of Meiji -- World War I and the 1920s -- The banking crisis of 1927 -- The 1930s and the war economy -- Postwar recovery 1945-49 -- The high growth era -- Economic maturity and slowdown -- The asset bubble and prolonged recession -- Questions and answers
