Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan’s High-Growth Era

EditorHaruhito Takeda is a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo. He obtained a Ph.D.in economics from the University of Tokyo in 1988. His main research field is the economic and business history of Japan. His publications include “Nihon Sandougyō shi” (A History of Copper Mines in Japan)(Univ. Press of Tokyo, 1987).

• Part I Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan’s High-Growth Era.- 1 The Japanese Apparel Industry and Consumer Society from 1950 to the 1970s (Susumu Ishii).- 2 The Legislative Process of Automobile Exhaust Emissions Control in Japan—The 1966 Regulation and the Role of the Ministry of Transport (Akira Itagaki).- 3 Adjustment Policies in the Japanese Coal Mining Industry during the Period of High Economic Growth – Production Volume Maintenance and Adjustments in Employment(Jin Sung Chung).- 4 The Relationship between Labor Management Reform and Inter-Company Relations at the Industry Level: a Case Study of the Japanese Steel Industry(Hiroshi Sugiyama).- Part II Book Reviews.- 5 Review of Numagami Tsuyoshi, Ekisyō Display no Gijyutsu Kakushin-shi (The History of Technological Innovation in Liquid Crystal Displays)(Juroh Hashimoto).- 6 Review of Woo Jong-Won, “Mibun no Torihiki” to Nihon no Koyō Kankō (“Transactions over Status” and Japan's Employment Practices)(Hiroshi Ichihara).- 7 Review of Junko Watanabe, Sangyō Hatten, Suitai no Keizai-shi—“10-dai bō” no Keisei to Sangyō Chousei (The Economic History of Industrial Development and Decline: the Formation and Industrial Readjustment of the Cotton Industry's “Big 10”) (Kyohei Hirano).- 8 Review of Juroh Hashimoto, Sengo Nihon Keizai no Seichou Kouzou: Kigyō System to Sangyō Seisaku no Bunseki (The Structure of Postwar Japan's Economic Growth: an Analysis of Enterprise Systems and Industrial Policy )(Seiichiro Yonekura).- Index.