IDE Advanced School (IDEAS) Post-Graduate Diploma Program in Development Studies

since 2001/12/12

The History of Japanese Industrial Policy

Yoshiki MIKAMI

Prof. Management & Information Systems Engineering

Nagaoka University of Technology

mikami@kjs.nagaokaut.ac.jp

Course Materials

	Slide: "Japanese Industrial Development and the Role of the State": Contains more than 50 slides, most of which are long-range historical charts, photos and pictures indicating the development of Japanese industry and the role of the government. Sample slides are ..... Industrial Revolution and Japan Government Spinning Factory 1872 International Trade 1868-2000 Ukiyo-e "Kobe Port" Energy Sources: 1880-2000 High Economic Growth in 1960s Government Subsidies 1868-2000 Who Innovate Semiconductor? Military Expenditure 1868-2000
	Text: "Japanese Industrial Development and the Role of the State: A Short History": A brief history of Japanese industrial development. Consisting of 10 chapters and 7,600 words. 22 pages in A4 standard format. Meiji Restoration: The dawn of Industrialization The Series of Wars and their Impact on Industries Post-War Reconstruction Trade Liberalization and the High Economic Growth The "Dollar Crisis", "Oil Crisis" and their Aftermath The U.S. - Japan High Tech trade New Faces of Technology Program The New paradigm in the 1990s The Government S&T Spending Structural Reforms Needed
	Reporting assignments

For Further Reading - Suggested books and papers

	Short List (focused on technology transfer and foreign direct investment issues in political-economic contexts)
	Andrew Gordon, A modern history of Japan - from Tokugawa times to the present, Oxford University Press, 2003 E. Herbert Norman, Japan's emergence as a modern state : political and economic problems of the Meiji period, ed. by Lawrence T. Wood ;-- 60th anniversary ed., UBC Press, 2000 Yuzo Akatsuka, Tsuneaki Yoshida, Systems for infrastructure development : Japan's experience, Japan International Cooperation Publishing, 1999 Mark Mason, American Multinationals and Japan: Political Economy of Japanese Capital Controls, 1899-1980, Harvard University Press, 1992. John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, The New Press, 1999. Richard J. Samuels, Rich Nation, Strong Army: National Security and the Technological Transformation of Japan, Cornell University Press, 1994. Hiroyuki Odagiri and Akira Goto, Technology and Industrial Development in Japan: Building Capabilities by Learning, Innovation, and Public Policy, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996. Marie Anchordoguy, Computers Inc.: Japan's Challenge to IBM, Harvard University Press, 1989. Michael Cusumano, The Japanese Automobile Industry: Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota, Harvard University Press, 1985. Laura Hein, Fueling Growth: The Energy Revolution and Economic Policy in Postwar Japan, Harvard University Press, 1990. Akira Kudo, Japanese-German Business Relations: cooperation and rivalry in the inter-war period, Routledge, 1998. Mark Lorell, Troubled Partnership: A History of U.S.-Japan Collaboration on the FS-X Fighter, Transaction Publishers, 1996. Shoichi Yamashita (ed.), Transfer of Japanese Technology and management to the ASEAN Countries, University of Tokyo Press,1991. Nomura Research Institute (NRI) and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), The New Wave of Foreign Direct Investment in Asia, ISEAS, 1995.
	Long List of Bibliographies by Hideki Hirota (Nagaoka University)

Useful Resources on the Web

Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry	Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
Contemporary journal includes commentaries on recent industry, and trade related policy issues.	Official website of the METI. Press releases and other important policy statements are available here.

1. WoPEc: Working Papers on Economics: WoPEc provides more than 50,000 documents from major economic journals in electronic form. You can search documents by topics, titles and authors.

2. MIT-Japan Program, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   http://web.mit.edu/mit-japan/www/

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Participants Records: 1998-2002

last updated 2004/01/16