Institutional change in Japan
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Bibliographic Information
Institutional change in Japan
(European Institute of Japanese Studies East Asian economics and business studies series, 8)
Routledge, 2006
Available at 33 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
"Transferred to digital printing 2009"--T.p. verso of 2009 printing
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a new analysis of recent changes in important Japanese institutions. It addresses the origin, development, and recent adaptation of core institutions, including financial institutions, corporate governance, lifetime employment, and the amakudari system.
After four decades of rapid economic growth in Japan, the 1990s saw the country enter a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Policy reforms were initially half-hearted, and businesses were slow to restructure as the global economy changed. The lagging economy has been impervious to aggressive fiscal stimulus measures and has been plagued by ongoing price deflation for years. Japan's struggle has called into question the ability of the country's economic institutions, originally designed to support factor accumulation and rapid development, to adapt to the new economic environment of the twenty-first century.
This book discusses both historical and international comparisons including Meiji Japan, and recent economic and financial reforms in Korea, Scandinavia, Switzerland, and New Zealand, placing the current institutional changes in perspective. The contributors argue that, contrary to conventional wisdom that Japanese institutions have remained relatively rigid, there has been significant institutional change over the last decade.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part 1: Institutional Change in Theory and Practice 1. Theories of Institutional Change: How Well Do They Apply to Japan? 2. Institutional Revolution: The Case of Meiji Japan 3. Institutional Reform in Japan and Korea: Why the Difference? Part 2: Japanese Institutions: What Has Changed, What Has Not, and Why 4. A Lost Decade For Corporate Governance? What's Changed, What Hasn't, and Why 5. Japan's Economic and Financial Stagnation in the 1990s and Reluctance to Change 6. Life-Time Employment: History and Response to Crisis 7. The Japanese Labour Movement and Institutional Reform 8. Is Amakudari Changing? The Case of Regional Banks 9. Divorce In Japan: Why It Happens, Why It Doesn't
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