Japan's Budget Politics
Japan's Budget Politics

Author: Takaaki Suzuki

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781555878870

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What is the source of the increasing politicization of Japan's budgetary policy? In this text, Takaaki Suzuki explores this question, finding answers in the interplay of domestic and international politics from the early 1970s through the 1990s.

Crisis and Compensation
Crisis and Compensation

Author: Kent E. Calder

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9780691023380

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An analysis of nonindustrial domestic policies in post-war Japan.

Japanese Cost Management
Japanese Cost Management

Author: Yasuhiro Monden

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 1860941850

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This book deals with the systems of cost reduction that originated in Japan. These are mostly new systems that did not exist in western practices before they were utilized in Japan. The book also presents the Japanese ways of carrying out the globally popular cost reduction practices.(1) It describes the strategic cost management conducted by top management through alliances between companies and/or between government and industry.(2) It shows the functional cost reduction systems along the various phases of the product life cycle, as follows: R&D ? Product development ? Manufacturing ? Administration and indirect operations(3) It conducts some humanistic or behavioral aspects of Japanese cost reduction systems.