TY - BOOK AU - Hunter,Janet AU - Storz,Cornelia TI - Institutional and technological change in Japan's economy: past and present T2 - Routledge contemporary Japan series SN - 0415368227 AV - HC462.9 .I59 2006 U1 - 330.95204 22 PY - 2006/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Japan KW - Economic policy KW - 1945- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Introduction : economic and institutional change in Japan; Janet Hunter and Cornelia Storz --; 2; Technology and change in Japan's modern copper mining industry; Patricia Sippel --; 3; Professionalism as power : Tajiri Inajiro and the modernisation of Meiji finance; Katalin Ferber --; 4; Investment, importation and innovation : genesis and growth of beer corporations in pre-war Japan; Harald Fuess --; 5; Managing female textile workers : an industry in transition, 1945-75; Helen MacNaughtan --; 6; Japanese inter-firm relations : on the way towards a market-oriented structure?; Andreas Moerke --; 7; Global finance, democracy, and the state in Japan; Takaaki Suzuki --; 8; Change and crisis in the Japanese banking industry; Mariusz K. Krawczyk --; 9; International mergers and acquisitions with Japanese participation : two cases from the automotive industry; Sigrun Caspary --; 10; Environmental protection and the impact of institutional changes in Japan; Ilona Koester --; 11; Changes in conducting foresight in Japan; Kerstin Cuhls ER -