Adapting to the Market : Institutional Change in Japan Agricultural Cooperatives -- The Postwar JA Model : 1945-1990 -- Japan's Changing Agricultural Landscape : 1990-2018 -- Putting Farmers First : The Post-1990 Era of JA Reform -- A Tale of Two Coops : The Processes of Strategic Adaptation --...

Kushida and Shimizu examine Japan's financial system, both the conventional financial sectors, such as banking, securities, and insurance, as well as the massive postal savings system. They argue that Japan's pattern of change is syncretic, whereby new ideas and practices are coexisting with...