The aim of this paper is to make clear the role of zaibatsu in the prewar Japanese economy. Especially, we focus on the organization and function of the holding companies of zaibatsu. By early twenties century, several family businesses had accumulated large amount of capital, and invested it to...

The purpose of this research is to reveal the characteristics of the Home Video-Game industry of the United States and to examine the reason why Japanese software publishers don't fully succeed in the US market. First, we report the present state of US Home Video-Game industry, and then make a...

The Japanese government has advocated a wide range of policy measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, e.g. improvements of gas mileage, development of alternative fuel vehicles, shifts to walking, bicycles and public transportation for passenger transportation and to...

In 2005, Japanese firms were allowed to introduce the anti-takeover amendments. By using of the data of 2005, this paper examined the incentives and effects of anti-takeover amendments in Japan. It has shown that the performances of the ATA introduced firms dropped in 2005 fiscal year. These...

It is often said that Japanese traditional institutionalism in labor studies(JTILS) isn't necessarily useful for analyzing current problems, like inequality and poverty among workers. This kind of obsoleteness in JTILS is caused by two blind sides: inattention to the renewal of the theory about...

This paper is preliminary note on an empirical analysis that compares different interpretations and implementations of so called lean production system, by different automobile manufacturers in the world. This paper outlines an analytical framework and hypotheses by which the author tries to...

After "the Burst of the Bubble," Japan entered a long period of stagnation in 1990s, which observers call "the Lost Decade." This "Lost Decade" ended with "the Financial Crisis," after which the Koizumi Cabinet aggressively pursued a policy designed to reduce the amount of "bad loans" held by...

This is a draft of the textbook providing an introduction to economic history. Major targets of the book are senior undergraduate and master level graduate students. Unlike most of the textbooks in this area, it does not contain chronological history, but it covers several topics interesting...

Despite the many economic studies documenting the problems governments face in trying to control or guide economic growth, the literature on postwar Japan posits an exception: during the first three years after World War II, the Japanese government (working with the Allied occupation)...

This paper investigates the interplay between economic incentives and social norms in formulating rice planting contracts in the Philippines. In our study area, despite the potential for pervasive opportunistic behaviors by workers, a fixed-wage (FW) contract has been dominant for rice planting....