The book attempts to examine whether trade unions in Japan contributed to raising wages, productivity and firm's performance. In the western world trade unions are often regarded as organizations which prevent firms from performing well. The Japanese case may be different from Europe and North...

This book provides a comprehensive appraisal of social security in Japan, where traditionally the burden of welfare provision has been the main responsibility of the family and employers, rather than the state. However, an ageing population, changes in family structure and continued recession...

This paper investigates the share ownership and lending activity of financial institutions with emphasis on the relationship between the two. We obtained the following results. The mobility of lending order was somewhat higher than that of shareholding order. The correlation between lending...