The Institutional Foundations of Japanese Industrial Policy

Henderson Dan F. , Foreign Enterprise in Japan: Laws and Policies (Tokyo: Tuttle, 1975), p. 98.

On the workings of the Japanese state bureaucracy, see Johnson Chalmers , MITI and the Japanese Miracle (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1982), Chap. 2.

See Campbell John Creighton , Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977), Chap. 5.

On rural poverty in prewar Japan, see Hane Mikiso , Peasants, Rebels, and Outcasts: The Underside of Modern Japan (New York, NY: Pantheon, 1982).

Fodella Gianni , “Economic Performance in Japan and Italy,” in Fodella G. , ed., Japan's Economy in a Comparative Perspective (Tenterden, England: Paul Norbury, 1983), p. 26.

For current trends in Japanese administrative law, see Japanese-American Society for Legal Issues, Law in Japan: An Annual, Vol. 15 (1982), “Symposium on the Oil Cartel Case,” pp. 1–101.

For a fairly comprehensive example, see Schlossstein Steven , Trade War: Greed, Power, and Industrial Policy on Opposite Sides of the Pacific (New York, NY: Congdon and Weed, 1984).

Cf. Fodella , op. cit., pp. 1–2; Eckstein Alexander , ed., Comparison of Economic Systems (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1971); Grossman Gregory , Economic Systems (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967); and Aron Raymond , The Industrial Society (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1967).

Patrick Hugh , “Japanese High-Tech Industrial Policy in Broader Context,” unpublished paper for the Conference on Japanese High-Tech Industrial Policy in Comparative Perspective, sponsored by the Committee on Japanese Economic Studies, New York, March 17–19, 1984, p. 25.

See Cook Harry L. , “Scope and Method in Economics,” paper presented to the annual meeting of the Western Economics Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 27, 1984.

For further discussion of what makes Japan different from the Anglo-American countries and a comparison between modern Japan and medieval Venice as examples of “trading nations,” see Johnson Chalmers , “La Serenissima of the East,” Asian and African Studies (Journal of the Israel Oriental Society) 18 (March 1984):57–73.

For further analytical details, see Johnson C. , ed., The Industrial Policy Debate, (San Francisco, CA: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1984), pp. 3–26, 235–44.

“MITI Guides Biotech Industry,” Japan Times Weekly, August 11, 1984, p. 11.

See Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Background Information: White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan, 1983 (Tokyo: MITI publication BI–52, 1983), 108 pp.; Doe Paula , “Benchaa Boomu: Japanese for Venture Capital,” Electronic Business, January 1984, pp. 98–100; Japan Economic Journal, July 19, 1983 (on the JDB); “The Technopolis Plan: Recent Developments,” News from MITI, NR-289 (84–5), March 6, 1984; and Kuribayashi Yoshimitsu , “Japan's Venture Businesses Forge Ahead,” International House of Japan Bulletin 4 (Summer 1984), pp. 2–3.

Boltho Andrea , “Italian and Japanese Postwar Growth: Some Similarities and Differences,” in Fodella , ed., op. cit., p. 54.

Japan Economic Journal, June 26, 1984, p. 26.

Japan's policies and institutions for dealing with declining industries have not been thoroughly analyzed in English. For a good study of one industry, see Samuels Richard J. , “The Industrial Destructuring of the Japanese Aluminum Industry,” Pacific Affairs 56 (Fall 1983):495–509. In Japanese , the most important source is Tsūshω Sangyω-shω Sangyω Seisaku Kyoku (MITI, Industrial Policy Bureau), ed., Sankωhω no kaisetsu (Explanation of the Special Measures Law for the Stabilization of Designated Recessed Industries [of May 1983]) (Tokyo: Tsūshω Sangyω Chωsa Kai, 1983), 492 pp.

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