This paper traces the evolution of the Japanese labor movement's stance toward institutional change from the early post …-World War II era to the present. It argues that, like most labor movements, the Japanese movement began as a movement that … Japanese labor movement shifted to a stance of active defense of institutional status quo in both industrial relations and the …

Japan and the Nordic countries similarly experienced a serious collapse of the Bubble economy in the early 1990s, but … the financial recovery of the former is extremely delayed compared with the latter. In Japan, the Ministry of Finance is …-making process is conceptualized as the network linking relevant public/ private actors, the Japanese financial authorities are …

The substantial institutional and organisational changes in Japan that followed the Meiji Restoration of 1868 have … Meiji reform process to indicate how far it might offer any lessons for institutional and organisational reform in Japan at … debates in Japan financial institutions, business enterprise and the labour market suggests that in all three cases the …

One of the curiosities about the Japanese banking sector for Westerners is the close connection between banks and the … in Japan. Previous studies, particularily Horiuchi and Shimizu (2001), examined the effect of the close connection … between banks and the financial authority in Japan, so-called amakudari. However, their observation did not cover the "post …

Japanese competition authority, the Fair Trade Commission (FTC), seems to be rather reluctant to participate in relevant …

"Investor Relations" has become one of the most fashionable phrases among Japanese companies in recent years …, particularly as a result of the rising impact of foreign investors in Japan. An English-language website may be one of the most … effective measures for providing corporate information to a non-Japanese audience, but the attitude of Japanese companies on …

This paper reviews the reasons why Japan has failed to resolve the economic and financial distress that started in 1990 … recovery not yet occurred, and is Japan in a second lost decade in terms of economic and financial development? I discuss how … restraints embedded in the Japanese financial system account for the slow and incomplete reform process. These include: financial …

Following the US and Europe, Japan is now becoming aware of the importance of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). In … fact, Japan has become the country with the largest number of participants in Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), which is … much. The Japanese approach to CSR may well differ from the Western approach, given various differences in their socio …

The development of newspapers in Japan and Sweden follow radically different paths. The newspapers fulfilled quite … paper will start by giving a short overview of the development of the newspaper industry in Japan and in Sweden. A … with a comparison of the popular press, the koshimbun in the Japanese case, a small format paper produced for a larger …

Analysis of Japanese corporate law reveals a striking amount of formal institutional change in the past ten years … straightjacket imposed on Japanese firms by the Commercial Code, and to a more competitive and market-responsive environment for the … production of corporate law. It has been a “sea change decade” for Japanese corporate law. Yet it has been an ambiguous decade …