In the half-century since the end of World War II, Japan has grown spectacularly out of the war's ruins. The country now faces a new economic era with harsh reality. It is an opportune time to take stock of Japan's economic performance. With this in mind, this issue presents a survey of the...

The Japan Communist Party (JCP) published its position paper on the Japanese economy in June 1977. Its general summary is translated and presented in this issue of uJapanese Economic Studies/u in the hope that it will give the reader a clearer idea of how the JCP looks at the Japanese economy...

The ever more conspicuous success of Japanese business has put Japanese-style management into the limelight. Outside observers searching for the secret of Japan's high productivity growth and product quality have quite naturally turned their attention to the country's distinctive management...

It is true that individuals formulate and implement their consumption-saving plans based on the expected economic environment. As the economic environment is always in a state of flux, individuals must keep on revising their plans as they go along. The question is: How do they revise their plans...

It goes without saying that the dual structure is a hallmark of Japan's production economy. It has attracted a great deal of attention in Japanese economic studies, especially in the historical context.sup1/sup Its theoretical underpinnings, however, do not seem to have been fully explored. In...