Economics

2 August 2011
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Japanese Shipping and Shipbuilding in the Twentieth Century, The Writings of Peter N. Davies

This book consists of a series of studies about Japanese shipping and shipbuilding. These are of interest to anyone specialising in Japanese economic history. It includes chapters on the rise of Japan’s modern shipping industry, the development of Japanese shipping industries in post-war Japan, Japan’s merchant marine and Japanese shipbuilding.

24 May 2011
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The Japanese Consumer, An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan

by Penelope Francks Cambridge University Press, 2009, 249 pages including index and references, ISBN 978-0521-69932-7 (soft back) Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi Penelope Francks is an honorary lecturer in Japanese studies in the department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds. She has specialized in the study of Japanese economic history. Most books [...]

1 September 2009
JBR Contested Governance In Japan Sites and Issues

Contested Governance In Japan: Sites and Issues

Edited by Glenn D Hook
Sheffield Centre for Japanese Studies/RoutledgeCurzon Series, Abingdon,2005, 288 pages, 978-0-415-36419-5
Review by Roger Buckley

2 July 2009
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Kigyō Ketsugou Housei no Shōraizou (企業結合法制の将来像), The Future of Corporate Groups Law

By Eiji Takahashi (高 橋 英 治)
Chuokeizaisha, Tokyo, 2008, 312 pages, ISBN978-4-502-96390-2
Review by Manabu Matsunaka

1 July 2009
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Showa Japan: The Post-War Golden Age and Its Troubled Legacy

By Hans Brinckman
Tuttle, Tokyo and Singapore, 2008, 212 pages including index, glossary and plate section, ISBN-13:978-4-8053-1002-1
Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

1 July 2009
Ko Gakureki Wakingu Puua

Ko Gakureki Wakingu Puua (高学歴ワーキングプア) [Highly Educated Working Poor]

By Shodo Mizuki, Kobunsha Shinsho, 2007, 217 pages, ISBN-10: 4334034233 (700 yen)
Review by Fumiko Halloran

1 May 2009
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“Saraba Zaimusho!” さらば財務省 (Farewell, Ministry of Finance!)

By Yoichi Takahashi
Kodansha, March 2008 (11th printing in August 2008), 282 pages, 1700 yen
Review by by Fumiko Halloran

1 January 2009
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The Business, Life and Letters of Frederick Cornes: Aspects of the Evolution of Commerce in Modern Japan,1861-1910

By Peter N. Davies
Global Oriental, 2008, 514 pages including index and appendices, plus a CD of the letters, Hardback £75. ISBN 978-1-905246.
Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi

1 December 2008
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Outsourcing and Human Resource Management: an International Survey

Edited by Ruth Taplin

Routledge, September 2007, 244 pages. ISBN-13: 978-0415428910. Hardback £75

Review by James Brewer

1 December 2008
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Escape from Impasse: The Decision to Open Japan

By Mitani Hiroshi, translated by David Noble
I-House Press, 2006, 356 pages including notes and index, ISBN 978-4-903452-06-7, 3000 Yen
Review by Sir Hugh Cortazzi