The first showing of Cinerama in Japan was in early 1955. This new type of film, titled uThis Is Cinerama/u, introduced in documentary style some main features of a number of countries. The part on Japan, represented as usual by Mount Fuji and geisha girls, was too repulsive to me. But the...

Starting from almost null in the late 1990s, China's mobile phone handset industry has grown to account for more than 40 percent of the current world production. While export growth has been overwhelmingly led by multi-national corporations (MNCs), increasingly fierce competition in the domestic...

In the recent decade China witnessed an upsurge of privatization of small and medium state-owned enterprises (SOEs). In contrast to the consequent sharp reduction in the number of firms, however, the estimated share of broadly-defined SOEs that includes limited liabilities companies controlled...

What was the foundation of the Japanese industrial organization which supported Japan's postwar economic development? On the one hand, Japan's industrial organization positively contributed to high economic growth, but, on the other hand, it created friction between the market and the...