A History Of Japanese Trade And Industry Policy

Author : Mikio Sumiya
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 674 pages
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Release : 2000-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191584022

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A History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy by Mikio Sumiya Pdf

Despite the destruction of its social and economic infrastructure during the Second World War, Japan's subsequent remarkable recovery and growth propelled it rapidly into the ranks of the developed nations. In order to trace this post-war transformation formally, the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) convened a committee of independent academics to compile a seventeen-volume History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy, of which this volume acts as a summary. Translated for the first time into English, it examines the planning, drafting, and implementation of various policies adopted by MITI against their economic and industrial background in the period from 1945 to 1979. It provides an objective overview and analysis of the development of international trade and industry policy that will be of interest to economists, political scientists, policy-makers, and public administration lawyers alike.

Author : Mikio Sumiya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Industrial policy
ISBN : 1383018251

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History of Japanese Trade and Industry Policy by Mikio Sumiya Pdf

Author : RIETI
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811519871

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Dynamics of Japan’s Trade and Industrial Policy in the Post Rapid Growth Era (1980–2000) by RIETI Pdf

This open access book provides an in-depth examination of Japan's policy responses to the economic challenges of the 1980s and '90s. While MITI's earlier role in promoting rapid growth has been addressed in other studies, this volume, based on official records and exhaustive interviews, is the first to examine the aftermath of rapid growth and the evolution of MITI's interpretation of the economy's changing needs. Covering such topics as the oil shocks, trade conflict with the United States, and the rise and collapse of the so-called bubble economy, it presents a detailed analysis and evaluation of how these challenges were interpreted by government officials, the kinds of policies that were enacted, the extent to which policy aims were realized, and lessons for the longer term. This book is recommended especially to officials of countries concerned about the challenges that follow on high economic growth and to readers interested in Japan’s contemporary economic history.

Author : Daniel I. Okimoto
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780804718127

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Between MITI and the Market by Daniel I. Okimoto Pdf

Over the postwar period, the scope of industrial policy has expanded markedly. Governments in virtually all advanced industrial countries have extended the visible hand of the state in assisting specific industries or individual companies. Although greater government involvement in some countries has lessened the dislocations brought about by slower growth rates, industrial policy has also caused or exacerbated a number of other problems, including distortions in the allocation of capital and labor and trade conflicts that undermine the postwar system of free trade. Only Japan is widely cited as an unambiguous success story. The effectiveness of its industrial policy is revealed in the successful emergence of one government-targeted industry after another as world-class competitors: for example, steel, automobiles, and semiconductors. Foreign countries fear that a number of still-developing industries—like biotechnology, telecommunications, and information processing—will follow the same pattern. But is industrial policy the main reason for Japan's economic achievements? The author asserts that the reasons for Japan's spectacular track record go well beyond the realm of industrial policy into broad areas of the political economy as a whole. In this book, the author attempts to identify the reasons for the comparative effectiveness of Japanese industrial policy for high technology by answering the following questions: What is the attitude of Japanese leaders toward state intervention in the marketplace? What is the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) doing to promote the development of high technology? How has the organization of the private sector contributed to MITI's capacity to intervene effectively? What elements in Japan's political system help insulate industrial policymaking from the demands of interest-group politics?

Author : Chalmers Johnson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1982-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804765602

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MITI and the Japanese Miracle by Chalmers Johnson Pdf

The focus of this book is on the Japanese economic bureaucracy, particularly on the famous Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), as the leading state actor in the economy. Although MITI was not the only important agent affecting the economy, nor was the state as a whole always predominant, I do not want to be overly modest about the importance of this subject. The particular speed, form, and consequences of Japanese economic growth are not intelligible without reference to the contributions of MITI. Collaboration between the state and big business has long been acknowledged as the defining characteristic of the Japanese economic system, but for too long the state's role in this collaboration has been either condemned as overweening or dismissed as merely supportive, without anyone's ever analyzing the matter. The history of MITI is central to the economic and political history of modern Japan. Equally important, however, the methods and achievements of the Japanese economic bureaucracy are central to the continuing debate between advocates of the communist-type command economies and advocates of the Western-type mixed market economies. The fully bureaucratized command economies misallocate resources and stifle initiative; in order to function at all, they must lock up their populations behind iron curtains or other more or less impermeable barriers. The mixed market economies struggle to find ways to intrude politically determined priorities into their market systems without catching a bad case of the "English disease" or being frustrated by the American-type legal sprawl. The Japanese, of course, do not have all the answers. But given the fact that virtually all solutions to any of the critical problems of the late twentieth century--energy supply, environmental protection, technological innovation, and so forth--involve an expansion of official bureaucracy, the particular Japanese priorities and procedures are instructive. At the very least they should forewarn a foreign observer that the Japanese achievements were not won without a price being paid.

Author : Committee on the History of Japan's Trade and Industry Policy RIETI
Publisher : Springer
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9811519862

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Dynamics of Japan’s Trade and Industrial Policy in the Post Rapid Growth Era (1980–2000) by Committee on the History of Japan's Trade and Industry Policy RIETI Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.This book provides an in-depth examination of Japan's policy responses to the economic challenges of the 1980s and '90s. While MITI's earlier role in promoting rapid growth has been addressed in other studies, this volume, based on official records and exhaustive interviews, is the first to examine the aftermath of rapid growth and the evolution of MITI's interpretation of the economy's changing needs. Covering such topics as the oil shocks, trade conflict with the United States, and the rise and collapse of the so-called bubble economy, it presents a detailed analysis and evaluation of how these challenges were interpreted by government officials, the kinds of policies that were enacted, the extent to which policy aims were realized, and lessons for the longer term. This book is recommended especially to officials of countries concerned about the challenges that follow on high economic growth and to readers interested in Japan’s contemporary economic history.

Author : Ira C. Magaziner,Thomas M. Hout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038991704

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Japanese Industrial Policy by Ira C. Magaziner,Thomas M. Hout Pdf

Author : James E. Vestal
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191584305

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Planning for Change by James E. Vestal Pdf

What has been the role of goverment industrial policy, through agencies such as MITI, in Japan's extraordinary post-war development? How has the role changed in successive phases of growth? What `lessons' can be learned from this experience by other nations, be they in the West, or developing countries or economies in transition attempting to introduce competitive market structures? These are some of the main questions addressed in this absorbing and thorough study. Dividing the period into three main phases, the author shows that policy played a crucial role in the initial period of post-war recovery. It did so not by `picking winners' but by creating a stable base from which development could occur by spreading the cost of introducing market competition over time. In the succeeding high growth period and more recently Japan's industrial policy attempts only to promote the development of new technology and smooth the decline of sectors that are no longer globally competitive. That Japan itself no longer practises industrial policy on a wide scale is an irony little appreciated by those advocating the adoption of a `Japan style' industrial policy elsewhere.

Author : Ryūtarō Komiya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Corporations, Japanese
ISBN : UCSD:31822006381446

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The Japanese Economy by Ryūtarō Komiya Pdf

Comprises nine essays focusing on three themes: international economic relations; Japanese enterprises; and the relationship between the government and industry.

Author : Bai Gao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521894506

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Economic Ideology and Japanese Industrial Policy by Bai Gao Pdf

A major addition to the literature on modern Japanese development, emphasizing the role of ideas and ideology.

Author : Aurelia George Mulgan,Masayoshi Honma
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137414564

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The Political Economy of Japanese Trade Policy by Aurelia George Mulgan,Masayoshi Honma Pdf

This study provides up-to-date coverage of the most important domestic and external political and economic influences on Japanese trade policy, as well as the evolutionary dynamics of that policy in the post-war period.

Author : Kenichi Ohno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315444024

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The History of Japanese Economic Development by Kenichi Ohno Pdf

This is an easy-to-read book that explains how and why Japan industrialized rapidly. It traces historical development from the feudal Edo period to high income and technology in the current period. Catch-up industrialization is analyzed from a broad perspective including social, economic and political aspects. Historical data, research and contesting arguments are amply supplied. Japan’s unique experience is contrasted with the practices of today’s developing countries. Negative aspects such as social ills, policy failures, military movements and war years are also covered. Nineteenth-century Japan already had a happy combination of strong entrepreneurship and relatively wise government, which was the result of Japan’s long evolutionary history. Measured contacts with high civilizations of China, India and the West allowed cumulative growth without being destroyed by them. Imported ideas and technology were absorbed with adjustments to fit the local context. The book grew out of a graduate course for government officials from developing countries. It offers a comprehensive look and new insights at Japan’s industrial path that are often missing in standard historical chronicles. Written in an accessible and lively form, the book engages scholars as well as novices with no prior knowledge of Japan.

Author : Robert M Stern,Gavin Wright,Hugh Patrick
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1145 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814468206

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Japanese Economy In Retrospect, The: Selected Papers By Gary R Saxonhouse (In 2 Volumes) by Robert M Stern,Gavin Wright,Hugh Patrick Pdf

Gary R Saxonhouse was one of the leading world scholars on Japanese economy. Born in New York City in 1943, he attended Yale University, where he received his PhD in Economics in 1971. He joined the Faculty of Economics at the University of Michigan beginning in 1970, where he taught throughout his career. The selection of his published papers that comprises this two-volume publication is a testimony and tribute to his remarkable accomplishments and influence that were cut short by his untimely death in November 2006, following a battle with leukemia.Volume I contains a selection of his published papers that have been instrumental in enhancing the understanding of Japan's modern economic history, focusing in particular on the Japanese cotton-spinning industry.Volume II features a selection of his published papers that look at how Japan's technology and innovation were key in promoting Japan's economic success; how its economy was shaped by its comparative advantage and related policies; and how its macro-financial policies were implemented in the course of its economic growth after World War II.

Author : Christopher Howe
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226354857

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The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy by Christopher Howe Pdf

In The Origins of Japanese Trade Supremacy, Christopher Howe locates the sources of Japan's current commercial and financial strength in events tnat occurred well before 1945.

Author : Takashi Shiraishi
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038607201

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Japan's Trade Policies 1945 to the Present Day by Takashi Shiraishi Pdf

This book describes and analyzes Japan’s foreign trade policies from 1945 onwards and considers the part they played in the economic expansion of the 1960s, the oil-shock of the 1970s, and consequent growth, with the leadership of MITI and the response of industry.