Japan's socio-economic evolution
Subtitle: continuity and change
By: edited by Sarah Metzger-Court & Werner Pascha.
Contributors: Metzger-Court, Sarah.; Pascha, Werner.
Publisher: Japan Library
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
Subjects: Japan -- Economic conditions -- 1868-  -- Congresses; Japan -- Economic policy -- 1868-  -- Congresses
Description: From the commercial and industrial transformation of Osaka in the late nineteenth century, to the role and status of Japanese multinationals in Europe, as well as such topics as 'the future of Toyotism', are representative of the issues both with regard to the time-span and the breadth of this volume which draws on the key papers given at the 1994 triennial conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, held in Copenhagen. Contributors from East and West Europe as well as Japan enhance the value of this in-depth study.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-401).
Most papers are revised versions of those read at the Economics/Economic and Social History Section of the Seventh Triennial Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, held in Copenhagen, 22-26 August 1994 (p. x).