Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-9q27g Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-19T23:49:25.804Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Industrial Policy of Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Jill Hills
Jill Hills
Affiliation:
Department of Government, University of Manchester
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Japan has been characterised as the most successful industrialised country in its ability to attain growth in GNP, even during a world recession. This article explores the background to the Japanese economic success of postwar years. It emphasises in particular the part played in that success by the Japanese banking sector and cheap credit extended to expanding industries. The article discusses the respective roles of the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Finance. It concludes that both domestic and international pressures are producing changes within the Japanese economy which are reflected in alterations in the tasks and influence of these institutions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Public Policy , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 63 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Alhadeff, D. A. (1975) Bank-business conglomerates: the Japanese experience, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review, no. 114, 09 1975.Google Scholar
Allen, G. C. (1978) How Japan Competes: A Verdict on Dumping, Hobart Paper 81. London: Institute of Economic Affairs.Google Scholar
Amaya, N. (1970) The Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Socio-Economic Institute Bulletin, No. 24. Tokyo: Sophia University.Google Scholar
Anglo-Japanese Economic Institute (1981) Bulletin of the Anglo-Japanese Economic Institute, no. 227, 11.–12., 1–2.Google Scholar
Bronte, S. (1980) The Bank of Japan strikes back, Euromoney, 11 1980, 65–75.Google Scholar
Business International (1980) Japan plans for the 1980's pose global challenge for Western firms, Business International, 14 November 1980.Google Scholar
Caves, R. with Uekusa, M. (1976) Industrial organization in Japan. In Patrick, H. and Rosovsky, H. (eds.), Asia's New Giant, Washington DC: Brookings Institution.Google Scholar
Curtis, G. L. (1975) Big business and political influence. In Vogel, E. (ed.), Modern Japanese Organization and Decision-Taking. Berkeley: University of California Press.Google Scholar
Engwall, L. (1974) Industrial structure in a dual economy, Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 14(2), 76–86.Google Scholar
Gregory, G. (1979) Japan's Asian Challenge, Columbia Journal of World Business, 2, 65–73.Google Scholar
Hills, J. (1981) Government relations with industry: Japan and Britain – a review of two political arguments, Polity, 14 (2), 15–24.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Japan Economic Research Centre (1979) Fifth 5-Year Economic Forecast. Tokyo: Japan Economic Research Centre.Google Scholar
Japan Quarterly (1963) Help for Japanese shipbuilding, Japan Quarterly, 10 (2), 149–53.Google Scholar
Johansson, J. K. (1981) Japanese Export Management: The Organizational, Institutional and Market Factors behind a World Force. Sweden: Marknadstekniskt Centrum.Google Scholar
Kaplan, E. (1972) Japan: The Government-Business Relationship. Washington DC: US Department of Commerce.Google Scholar
Kataoka, H. (1980) The administrative system of the Japanese national government, Waseda Political Studies, 15, 1–52.Google Scholar
Kiyoshi, K. (1975) Japan and multilateral trade, Oriental Economist, 43 (04), 32–40.Google Scholar
Lippitt, V. D.Fukui, H. and Gibney, F. (1976) Japanese and planning, Centre Magazine, 9(11), 66–71.Google Scholar
Long, T. D. (1975) Japanese technology: achievements and perspectives, Research Policy, 4, 2–26.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Magaziner, I. C. and Hout, T. M. (1980) Japanese Industrial Policy. London: Policy Studies Institute.Google Scholar
Miyoshi, M. (1972) Government/industry co-operation. Paper for the Japanese Chamber of Commerce in London.Google Scholar
Nihon Keizai Shimbun (1979) Industrial Review of Japan. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shimbun.Google Scholar
Nihon Kogyo Shimbun (1978) 26 05 1978. In Daily Translations of the Japanese Press. Tokyo: American Embassy.Google Scholar
Pempel, T. J. (1974) The bureaucratization of policymaking in post-war Japan, American Journal of Political Science, 18, 656–64.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rapp, W. V. (1975) Japan industrial policy. In Frank, I. (ed.), The Japanese Economy in International Perspective, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 37–66.Google Scholar
Ratcliffe, T. C. (1977) Japanese Corporate Finance 1977–80. London: Financial Times.Google Scholar
Statistical Handbook of Japan (1979) Tokyo: Office of the Prime Minister.Google Scholar
Ueno, H. (1976/7) Conception and evaluation of Japanese industrial policy, Japanese Economic Studies, 75 (2).Google Scholar