Product Description: While globalization of the Japanese economy has been advancing with astounding speed, significant differences remain between the management philosophy and techniques used within Japanese companies and those used in the West. These include the significant differences in the use of capital budgeting techniques, economic and political assessment of projects, decision-making styles, and techniques of corporate governance...read more

Product Description: This book contends that structural reforms, the essential third arrow in Abe's 'Abenomics', will not happen. As a result, Abenomics is merely a combination of reckless monetary policy and ambiguous fiscal policies which will fail to regenerate Japan's fragile economy and cut sovereign debt...read more

Product Description: While Japan's export-oriented economy has been advancing with astounding speed, significant differences remain between the management philosophy and techniques used within Japanese companies and those used in the West. These include the significant differences in the use of capital budgeting techniques, economic and political assessment of projects, decision-making styles, and techniques of corporate governance...read more

Product Description: Japan has always been an odd man out from the standpoint of Western norm or Western finance. It is a country that is as developed as any in the West. However, it is also a country that possesses the significant institutional and cultural traits that separate it from the West...read more

Product Description: ‘Stable holdings of each other’s shares have been a significant, distinctive feature of Japanese major industrial companies and financial institutions and an integral component of its economic system of bank-based finance and permanent employment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The author develops a model of bank-firm relationships on the basis of the following general idea: Banks want to prevent moral hazard on the side of their customers. In particular they want to prevent their business customers to use bank credit for purposes different from those that have been negotiated thus damaging the bank's interest...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In characterizing the Japanese way of business, Hiroshi Okumura has made one of the most significant contributions to the study of economics. Following his study of the conversion of pre-war zaibatsu to post-war groups of enterprises, he worked on the role of comprehensive trading companies in these groups, the main banking system and the permanent employment system. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this book, the author describes that the relationship based shareholding was the hidden key factor to explain Japan's miraculous economic success after WWII. The stock market which valued the low profitability Japanese companies highly enabled them to provide 'better and cheaper' manufactured goods in the export markets, leading resource poor Japan to a leading exporter and economic and financial superpower...read more

Product Description: Was Japan's economic miracle generated primarily by the Japanese state or by the nation's dynamic private sector? In addressing this question, Kent Calder's richly detailed study offers a distinctive reinterpretation of Japanese government-business relations...read more

Product Description: This book investigates the changing and varying patterns of ownership and control to be found in the economies of Britain, the United States, and Japan today. Such an investigation has not been undertaken before at anything like this scale...read more

Product Description: Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc