Japanese Working Class Lives is an ethnographic study of the lives of Japanese workers in small firms and examines their experiences of working life, leisure and education. This case study of the Shintani Metals Company illustrates the ways in which employees' lives extend beyond their work....

Preface: Dr Gordon Daniels, Reader in History at the University of Sheffield, presented his paper on the Social History of Occupied Japan at a one-day workshop on the Teaching of Japanese Economic and Social History, hel at the Suntory-Toyota International Centre on 16 May 1990. We are grateful...