This paper explores the development of household accounting practice in post‐war Japan through a review of reported experiences of the winners of an annual accounting prize scheme organized, since 1954, by the Central Council for Saving Information. While academic study of accounting at home...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to break the silence surrounding the politics of translation that influence cross-language/cultural accounting research. It gives due consideration to the ways in which translation gaps are produced and re-produced in qualitative interdisciplinary...

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to show how Japanese companies are assimilating the Anglo-Saxon model of corporate governance, by focusing on the changes in accounting and auditing in post-war Japan. Design/methodology/approach-It delineates the three key stages in the process by which...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to open up the Anglo-centred argument in gender and accounting by exploring the relationship of women and accounting in a different social and cultural context. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on in-depth ethnographical studies to explore...