Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy

Janet Hunter is Saji Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has published widely on modern Japanese economic history, particularly on the development of the female labour market, and is working on a history of the country’s communications.Cornelia Storz is Professor of Japanese Economics at the Faculty of Economics and the Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Marburg. Her research focuses on the comparison of economic systems; genesis and change in institutions (especially institutional change in Japan); comparative institutional analysis; entrepreneurship and the modern Japanese economy.

• 1. Introduction: Economic and Institutional Change in Japan 2. Technology and Change in Japan’s Modern Copper Mining Industry 3. Professionalism as Power: Tajiri Inajiro and the Modernisation of Meiji Finance 4. Investment, Adaptation and Innovation: Genesis and Growth of Beer Corporations in Prewar Japan 5. Managing Female Textile Workers: an Industry in Transition, 1945-1975 6. Japan’s Industrial Organisation in Motion: Keiretsu at the Turning Point 7. Global Finance, Democracy and the State in Japan 8. Changes and Crisis in the Japanese Banking Industry 9. International Mergers and Acquisitions with Japanese Participation: Two Cases from the Automotive Industry 10. Environmental Protection and the Impact of Institutional Change 11. Changes in Conducting Foresight in Japan