Inside the Japanese System

Part I. Culture and Society: 1. The family as an ethical system Watsuji Tetsuro; 2. The family as an economic unit Thomas C. Smith; 3. Hierarchy in Japanese society Nakane Chie; 4. Childrearing and personality formation William A. Caudill and Carmi Schooler; 5. Children and their mothers; 6. Dependency in human relationships Doi Takeo; 7. Education in Japanese society Thomas P. Rohlen; 8. The Japanese will to work Inagami Takeshi; 9. Confucianism as a basis for capitalism Morishima Michio; Part II. The Economy: 10. Organization for economic reconstruction Sakakibara Eisuke and Noguchi Yukio; 11. The banking-industrial complex M. Therese Flaherty and Itami Hiroyuki; 12. Japanese bond and stock markets Edward J. Lincoln; 13. The Japan-United States savings-rate gap Nagato Kazuhiko; 14. Industrial groups Rodney Clark; 15. A statement against free competition Morozumi Yoshihiko; 16. The closed nature of Japanese intercorporate relations Okumura Hiroshi; 17. Japan's subcontractors: the buck stops here; 18. Small business in Japan Robert C. Wood; 19. Japan's new bankruptcies Gary R. Saxonhouse; 20. Goodwill and the spirit of market capitalism Ronald Dore; Part III. The Company Pattern: 21. The company as family: historical background Rodney Clark; 22. Economic realities and enterprise strategies Peter E. Drucker; 23. Allocation of labor and capital in Japan and the United States Imia Ken'ichi and Itami Hiroyuki; 24. Debt and equity financing: implications Daniel I. Okimoto; 25. Japanese policies: past and future Murakami Yasusuke; 26. People management is what it's all about Thomas J. Nevins; 27. The education of a Japanese banker Thomas P. Rohlen; 28. Working women in Japan Alice H. Cook and Hayashi Hiroko; 29. Permanent employment policies in times of recession Thomas P Rohlen; 30. Productivity changes in Japan, 1960-1980 Ohta Hajime; 31. The Ma,-da Turnaround Richard Fawale and Thoinas P Rohlen; Part IV. Government Institutions and Policy Making: 32. Liberal-democratic party dominance in the diet Daniel I. Okimoto; 33. The liberal-democratic party's 'grand coalition' Daniel I. Okimoto; 34. The exchange of political goods and services Daniel I. Okimoto; 35. Liberal-democratic party factions Daniel I. Okimoto; 36. Bureaucrats and politicians: shifting influence Inoguchi Takashi; 37. Ex-bureaucrats in the liberal-democratic party Daniel I. Okimoto; 38. Dispute resolution in contemporary Japan Kawashima Takeyoshi and Noda Yosiyuki; 39. The role of law and lawyers in Japanese society Tanaka Hideo; 40. The way of the bureaucrat Suzuta Atsuyuki; 41. New support for the liberal-democratic party Murakami Yasusuke; 42. Japanese political economy today: the patterned pluralist model Ellis S. Krauss and Muramatsu Michio; 43. Japan, the societal state Daniel I. Okimoto; 44. Market rationality vs. plan rationality Chalmers Johnson; 45. Procartel policy: the advantages Kozo Yamamura; 46. Japanese industrial policy: international repercussions Kozo Yamamura; 47. T