Saving in Postwar Japan
Author: Tuvia Blumenthal
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1684171660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalyzes the rates and determinants of savings in postwar Japan.
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Postwar Japan as History
Author: Andrew Gordon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1993-10-20
Total Pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780520074750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs they examine three related themes of postwar history, the authors describe an ongoing historical process marked by unexpected changes, such as Japan's extraordinary economic growth, and unanticipated continuities, such as the endurance of conservative rule. --From publisher's description.
Welfare and Capitalism in Postwar Japan
Author: Margarita Estevez-Abe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-07-21
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1139471929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains how postwar Japan managed to achieve a highly egalitarian form of capitalism despite meager social spending. Estevez-Abe develops an institutional, rational-choice model to solve this puzzle. She shows how Japan's electoral system generated incentives that led political actors to protect various groups that lost out in market competition. She explains how Japan's postwar welfare state relied upon various alternatives to orthodox social spending programs. The initial postwar success of Japan's political economy has given way to periods of crisis and reform. This book follows this story up to the present day. Estevez-Abe shows how the current electoral system renders obsolete the old form of social protection. She argues that institutionally Japan now resembles Britain and predicts that Japan's welfare system will also come to resemble Britain's. Japan thus faces a more market-oriented society and less equality.
Understanding Saving
Author: Fumio Hayashi
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 532
ISBN-13: 9780262082556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalysis of consumption and saving decisions by households has always been one of the most active areas of research in economics--and with good reason. Private consumption is the most important component of aggregate demand in a capitalist economy, and explaining consumption is the key element in most macroeconomic forecasting models. To evaluate the effect of government policies invariably requires the knowledge of how they change parameters relevant for household decision making. Understanding Saving collects eleven papers by economist Fumio Hayashi, along with two previously unpublished chapters, for a total of thirteen chapters. The monograph, which brings together Hayashi's empirical research on saving, is divided into three sections. Part I, "Liquidity Constraints", contains five studies that test the well-known implication of the Life Cycle-Permanent Income hypothesis that households shield consumption from income fluctuations. Part II, "Risk-Sharing and Altruism", contains three papers that examine the interactions between related and unrelated households predicted by the hypothesis for the US and Japanese households. The three papers in Part III, "Japanese Saving Behavior", present the author's explanation of the high saving rate in postwar Japan.
The Economic Emergence of Modern Japan
Author: Kozo Yamamura
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-06-13
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780521589468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Economic Emergence of Modern Japan is a useful book for those interested in how Japan succeeded in transforming an agricultural economy into an advanced industrial economy. This volume brings together chapters from The Cambridge History of Japan, Volumes 5 and 6, and The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Volume 7, part 2. Each of the seven chapters, written by leading specialists in Japanese economic history, explains in an authoritative, detailed analysis how institutions, the behaviour of individuals and firms, and official policies changed in order to enable Japan to accumulate capital, adopt new technology, ensure a skilled labour-force, and increase exports of manufactured goods. The authors pay special attention to distinctive Japanese institutions and policies, the effect of the Tokugawa legacy, and the impact of various wars, and the global economy.
Postwar Japanese Economy, The; Its Development and Structure, 1937-1994, 2nd Ed.
Author: Takafusa Nakamura
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe economy of Japan, with its high rates of growth, exemplary productivity levels, overall stability, and resilience in the face of financial and other crises, has been one of the wonders of the postwar world. In this book, which has since its first publication in 1981 been a standard text and reference work on the postwar economy, one of Japan's leading economist-scholars describes its workings, its roots in the prewar and wartime years, and its structure and institutions. For this revised second edition, the author has written several new chapters, added data bringing the discussion up to the 1990s, and reorganized the presentation.
Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan
Author: J. Victor Koschmann
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1996-12
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780226451213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter World War II, Japanese intellectuals believed that world history was moving inexorably toward bourgeois democracy and then socialism. But who would be the agents—the active "subjects"—of that revolution in Japan? Intensely debated at the time, this question of active subjectivity influenced popular ideas about nationalism and social change that still affect Japanese political culture today. In a major contribution to modern Japanese intellectual history, J. Victor Koschmann analyzes the debate over subjectivity. He traces the arguments of intellectuals from various disciplines and political viewpoints, and finds that despite their stress on individual autonomy, they all came to define subjectivity in terms of deterministic historical structures, thus ultimately deferring the possibility of radical change in Japan. Establishing a basis for historical dialogue about democratic revolution, this book will interest anyone concerned with issues of nationalism, postcolonialism, and the formation of identities.
A Cultural History of Postwar Japan 1945-1980
Author: Shunsuke Tsurumi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 187
ISBN-13: 1136146180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1987. Japan’s surrender on 15 August 1945 was an unprecedented event in Japanese history. The shift from the life of hunger to the life of saturation that took place between 1945 and 1980 has brought about a great change in life style. The significance of this change will be a subject of reassessment for many years to come. This books presents an outline of such a change in the domain of mass culture, a sector of Japanese culture most indicative of the change after the defeat and the subsequent economic recovery.
Personal Savings and Consumption in Postwar Japan
Author: Toshiyuki Mizoguchi
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Victim as Hero
Author: James J. Orr
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2001-04-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0824865154
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first systematic, historical inquiry into the emergence of "victim consciousness" (higaisha ishiki) as an essential component of Japanese pacifist national identity after World War II. In his meticulously crafted narrative and analysis, the author reveals how postwar Japanese elites and American occupying authorities collaborated to structure the parameters of remembrance of the war, including the notion that the emperor and his people had been betrayed and duped by militarists. He goes on to explain the Japanese reliance on victim consciousness through a discussion of the ban-the-bomb movement of the mid-1950s, which raised the prominence of Hiroshima as an archetype of war victimhood and brought about the selective focus on Japanese war victimhood; the political strategies of three self-defined war victim groups (A-bomb victims, repatriates, and dispossessed landlords) to gain state compensation and hence valorization of their war victim experiences; shifting textbook narratives that reflected contemporary attitudes and structured future generations' understanding of the war; and three classic antiwar novels and films that contributed to the shaping of a "sentimental humanism" that continues to leave a strong imprint on the collective Japanese conscience.
