Japan S Quest For Growth

Author : Mr.Murtaza H. Syed,Ms.Jinsook Lee
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781455211753

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Japan’s Quest for Growth by Mr.Murtaza H. Syed,Ms.Jinsook Lee Pdf

As labor input in Japan shrinks with population aging, capital accumulation and productivity gains will drive growth over the medium-term. At the same time, a changing global landscape calls for a shift in export-oriented investment toward new markets and a new generation of products, as well as increased investment by domestically-oriented firms. What policies could be adopted to help firms adjust to the imperatives of the post-crisis global economy and boost medium-term growth? Using disaggregated data, this paper investigates the determinants of investment and R&D spending by Japanese firms. The results suggest that policies could usefully focus on four areas. First, raising the return on investment, including through reforms to the tax code. Second, decreasing uncertainty through improved risk management by firms and by bolstering the business climate. Third, improving SME access to finance, notably by encouraging venture capital investment in innovative areas and more risk-based lending. And fourth, reducing excess leverage and supporting corporate restructuring to enable new investments to flourish.

Author : Murtaza H. Syed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1308960321

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Japan's Quest for Growth by Murtaza H. Syed Pdf

As labor input in Japan shrinks with population aging, capital accumulation and productivity gains will drive growth over the medium-term. At the same time, a changing global landscape calls for a shift in export-oriented investment toward new markets and a new generation of products, as well as increased investment by domestically-oriented firms. What policies could be adopted to help firms adjust to the imperatives of the post-crisis global economy and boost medium-term growth? Using disaggregated data, this paper investigates the determinants of investment and R&D spending by Japanese firms. The results suggest that policies could usefully focus on four areas. First, raising the return on investment, including through reforms to the tax code. Second, decreasing uncertainty through improved risk management by firms and by bolstering the business climate. Third, improving SME access to finance, notably by encouraging venture capital investment in innovative areas and more risk-based lending. And fourth, reducing excess leverage and supporting corporate restructuring to enable new investments to flourish.

Author : Warren Hunsberger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315284996

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Japan's Quest: The Search for International Recognition, Status and Role by Warren Hunsberger Pdf

An international team of ten specialists in Japanese and American foreign relations address the crucial question: what role should Japan play in international affairs? They try to find a satisfactory answer to a concern which was first raised in the mid-19th century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814466202

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Snow on the Pine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kyoko Hatakeyama,Craig Freedman
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789814289993

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Snow on the Pine by Kyoko Hatakeyama,Craig Freedman Pdf

Snow on the Pine presents a compelling view of the Japanese foreign policy that runs counter to the common wisdom reducing Japan?s post-war efforts to the pursuit of purely commercial interests. This book takes a new approach ? the eventual Japanese defeat in the Second World War did not transform Japan into an ?exceptional state? seeking only economic interests. Like any other nations, economic issues have always played a crucial role in policy decisions. However, this is but only one amongst the many interweaving threads determining foreign policy decisions. In the authors? eyes, Japan?s foreign policy is characterized by the drive to dominate and influence the East Asia region, which has been a consistent motivation since the days of the Meiji restoration. Thus, the post-war period in this analysis provides a continuation rather than a break with the country?s previous history. Tactics, and even strategies, may have changed over time to meet the challenges of the ever evolving economic and political environments but the overall objective has essentially remained constant. The snow melts, but the pine endures.

Author : Scott O'Bryan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824832827

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The Growth Idea by Scott O'Bryan Pdf

Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth. Scott O’Bryan reinterprets this seemingly familiar history through an innovative exploration, not of the anatomy of growth itself, but of the history of growth as a set of discourses by which Japanese "growth performance" as "economic miracle" came to be articulated. The premise of his work is simple: To our understandings of the material changes that took place in Japan during the second half of the twentieth century we must also add perspectives that account for growth as a new idea around the world, one that emerged alongside rapid economic expansion in postwar Japan and underwrote the modes by which it was imagined, forecast, pursued, and regulated. In an accessible, lively style, O’Bryan traces the history of growth as an object of social scientific knowledge and as a new analytical paradigm that came to govern the terms by which Japanese understood their national purposes and imagined a newly materialist vision of social and individual prosperity. Several intersecting obsessions worked together after the war to create an agenda of social reform through rapid macroeconomic increase. Epistemological developments within social science provided the conceptual instruments by which technocrats gave birth to a shared lexicon of growth. Meanwhile, reformers combined prewar Marxist critiques with new modes of macroeconomic understanding to mobilize long-standing fears of overpopulation and "backwardness" and argue for a growthist vision of national reformation. O’Bryan also presents surprising accounts of the key role played by the ideal of full employment in national conceptions of recovery and of a new valorization of consumption in the postwar world that was taking shape. Both of these, he argues, formed critical components in a constellation of ideas that even in the context of relative poverty and uncertainty coalesced into a powerful vision of a materially prosperous future. Even as Japan became the premier icon of the growthist ideal, neither the faith in rapid growth as a prescription for national reform nor the ascendancy of social scientific epistemologies that provided its technical support was unique to Japanese experience. The Growth Idea thus helps to historicize a concept of never-ending growth that continues to undergird our most basic beliefs about the success of nations and the operations of the global economy. It is a particularly timely contribution given current imperatives to reconceive ideas of purpose and prosperity in an age of resource depletion and global warming.

Author : Kōnosuke Matsushita
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : UCSD:31822004983185

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Quest for Prosperity by Kōnosuke Matsushita Pdf

Devides into three parts: the first covering Matsushita's childhood and the founding and early development of the Matsushita Electric Appliance. Factory (1894-1925). The secondary the period of rapid business expansion (1927-1933), and the third World War II and the postwar recovery up through the present.

Author : Brian Salsberg,Clay Chandler,Heang Chhor
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 142154086X

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REIMAGINING JAPAN by Brian Salsberg,Clay Chandler,Heang Chhor Pdf

REMINGINING JAPAN: Contributors to this volume include some of the world’s most brilliant thinkers from fields as diverse as business, politics, academia, science and technology, journalism and art and design. In the aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis of March 2011, Japan has become a bigger part of the world’s consciousness than it has been for years. But Japan also is grappling with other problems that, over the long run, pose a much greater challenge to its national well-being than the devastation in Tohoku.... How can the country compete with a rising China? Cope with a fast-aging society? Deal with its enormous debt? Rediscover its entrepreneurial verve? Regain its position as a leader in technology and innovation? In Reimagining Japan, McKinsey & Company, the world’s top management consulting firm, asked more than 80 global leaders and experts to consider these questions. In essays brimming with insight, affection and occasional humor, the authors offer their assessments of Japan’s past, present and --most important -- future. What sets Reimagining Japan apart is the breadth and diversity of its contributors. They range from Fortune 500 CEOs to acclaimed writers (including three Pulitzer Prize winners) to a star videogame creator, a soccer coach, a school principal and a manga artist. There has not been such a comprehensive book about Japan in the past generation - and perhaps ever. NOTABLE CONTRIBUTORS Bernard Arnault, Ian Buruma, Gerald Curtis, John Chambers, Steven Covey, John Dower, Bill Emmott, Victor Fung, Carlos Ghosn, Pico Iyer, Bob McDonald, Stephen Roach, Masahiro Sakane, Masayoshi Son, Howard Schultz, Klaus Schwab, Bobby Valentine, Steve Van Andel, Ezra Vogel, Robert Whiting, Tadashi Yanai and more than 50 others.

Author : Adam Simon Posen
Publisher : Peterson Institute for International Economics
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiscal policy
ISBN : UCSC:32106014223678

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Restoring Japan's Economic Growth by Adam Simon Posen Pdf

Criticism of current Japanese macroeconomic and financial policies is so wide spread that the reasons for it are assumed to be self-evident. In this volume, Adam Posen explains in depth why a shift in Japanese fiscal and monetary policies, as well as financial reform, would be in Japan's self-interest. He demonstrates that Japanese economic stagnation in the 1990s is the result of mistaken fiscal austerity and financial laissez-faire rather than a structural decline of the "Japan Model." The author outlines a program for putting the country back on the path to solid economic growth - primarily through permanent tax cuts and monetary stabilization - and draws broader lessons from the recent Japanese policy actions that led to the country's continuing stagnation.

Author : Bert Edström
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Japan
ISBN : UCAL:B4956206

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Japan's Quest for a Role in the World by Bert Edström Pdf

Author : Yutaka Kōsai
Publisher : [Tokyo] : University of Tokyo Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Economic development
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040484805

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The Era of High-speed Growth by Yutaka Kōsai Pdf

Takes a retrospective look at rapid growth in Japan, 1945-1970. Argues that economic growth was achieved not on the basis of the distinctive value customs, and behavioral style of Japanese society but rather through reliance on the market mechanism of classical capitalist theory. Rapid growth is seen as a process in which external dependence on raw materials and a high level of domestic consumption were combined with the development of exports and technical revolution in the processing industries.

Author : Kenneth K. Kurihara
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015055260783

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The Growth Potential of the Japanese Economy by Kenneth K. Kurihara Pdf

Author : Deborah J. Milly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023597904

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Poverty, Equality, and Growth by Deborah J. Milly Pdf

In the early 1950s, many Japanese lived in poverty. Today only a handful do. This book explains why and how the postwar Japanese state progressed from employing responses to poverty preferred in the prewar era to adopting equality as the basis for a social compromise. The author argues that to account for why political actors succeeded in crafting a program that won acceptance, it is necessary to look beyond their interests and to identify how they relied on knowledge and normative arguments.

Author : Chalmers Johnson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Warren S. Hunsberger
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0765635194

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Japan's Quest by Warren S. Hunsberger Pdf

An international team of ten specialists in Japanese and American foreign relations address the crucial question: what role should Japan play in international affairs? This question has not found a fully satisfactory answer since the forced opening to foreign contacts in the mid-nineteenth century. Having copied foreign models and achieved a series of stunning successes -- and some failures -- in many aspects of private and public life, Japan today stands at a pinnacle of economic power and affluence. Despite this, both economics and politics are undergoing major strains and changes during the 1990s, and the quest for true internationalization is fraught with problems and only partially fulfilled. This book is a joint project of the American University in Washington and Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.