with the industrialized world, but throughout this process, many aspects of Japanese policy and culture…
Unfortunately, labor unions became controlled by the Communist Party, causing shortages of goods. Strikes began nationwide. United States and Japan made economic and social stability their top priority. United Stated and Japan withdrew their support for labor unions. This conservative social policy set the pattern for Japanese capitalism in the decades to come. The U.S. occupation authorities installed in Japan a type of democratic, free enterprise system that promoted political and economic practices closely resembling those in Japan in the 1920”s (Brower, 2006).…
Early industrialization raised new issues in Japan in all of the following areas EXCEPT? Strong women’s rights protests…
During WWII however, Japan takes Nazi Germany's side and as a result in 1945, the United States drop two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This leads Japan to surrender and to disband its military and naval forces. During the war Japan lost 25% of its national wealth, its production levels were 10% of what the were before the war and this all caused hyper-inflation as well as commodity shortage. The West tried to democratize Japan politically and economically and this led to things such as the dissolution of the Zaibatsu, large conglomerates of major companies which lead to the more even spreading out of the country's wealth. In 1947 American fair market rules were introduced, securing market competition and transparency. Furthermore, labor movements were legalized and the compulsory education was extended from 6 to 9 years. However high inflation persisted and so to rapidly reconstruct the economy, the government implemented a strategy to concentrate resources in priority industrial sectors such as steel, coal mining, electricity, marine and railway transportation, and chemical fertilizer. Due to this industrial production rapidly recovered and in just two years, production levels increased from 31% of prewar levels to 80%. In 1949, a series of policies were conducted by Joseph Dodge, a US banker who came to Japan as an economic adviser to the Allied force General Headquarters…
Japan is one now of the most advanced countries in the world and but it hasn’t always been this way. It has had to overcome many problems to succeed against all odds. This essay will be finding out how it has managed this.…
We see a technological upgrade in Japan’s military as well as a brand new Constitution. This constitution states that “ all people are equal under the eyes of the law”. Many countries have started a constitution similar to this, and it was a great step into the future. The Japanese take a full turn in the opposite direction they were a hundred years ago, and went from being 100% anti Western, to being totally influenced by the Western Society. Japan becomes an industrial power due to there being many new factories and the production of silk rocketing. There are now new schools, higher education, yet women were still seen as unequal.…
In conclusion, stated by John Dower in “The Useful War” Japan has went through a period of drastic economic growth and development after the end of the World War II, yet apparently faced an economic depression and recession that Japan experiences even at present (Dower). Japan is famous for its industrial advances and robotics. Service industries appear to be rather popular too, and Japanese government further privatizes state-own strategic corporations. The government cooperates greatly with the most favored companies of Japan while places numerous trading barriers on imported goods. Japan has experienced major problems in the past like property bubbles, reliance on large corporations, unwillingness to open Japanese market to foreign goods, and bank and financial problems. At present Japan as two major problems that can be resolved quickly namely, market inefficiencies and lack of consumption. The problems that are unlikely to be changed and resolved are the opportunity/competitiveness lost and dependence on foreign…
According to Komuro, the most important issues for achieving a work-life balance in Japan are the “personnel assessment system” and “overtime payment” at companies. “People see the ‘merit system’ from an achievement-oriented viewpoint. What is actually important is how efficiently people work during normal hours. Even if companies pay overtime, it is not good for employees to become reliant on it because all they end up doing is working even longer hours to achieve target sales.”…
The Tombow Pencil Co. established in the early 20th Centaury has survived many difficult times in Japanese history, including the Second World War, numerous recessions and fundamental technological changes affecting its market. However, profits have declined and remained low during the 1990’s despite efforts to modernise.…
Takashi, I. (1997). Changing Japanese labor and employment system. Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry, 16(4), 20-24.…
In the post-war period, Japanese manufacturing companies significantly increased their share of the global market of automobiles (Automotive News-Market Data Book, quoted in Womack, Jones, and Roos 1991, 69) as well as achieving more than 50 percent of the world markets in cameras, video recorders, watches, calculators, microwave ovens, motorcycles, and colour televisions (Oliver and Wilkinson 1992, 5). Much of this success was attributed to the forms of human-resource Management found in Japanese companies (Abegglen and Stalk 1987; Clark…
Japan: collective capitalism: collective identity, interlocking share ownership, lifetime employment, pensions/social protection of workers, focus on benefitting citizens/country as whole (Fulcher, 2004).…
These authors, in their interviews with exchange students from Japan, can help us understand the big difference between the U.S. and Japan. They help put it into a real life example and show the different views of what is best for a country. Is it better to have “the government wither away and be individually free”, as Woodward says, or to “turn all power over to the state”?…
Japan is one of the important countries of the world. However, in sexual gap situation Japan is place on lowest position in group of eight countries that have largest economies or called G8. According to the world economic forum (2012), report that Japan ranked at 101st on year 2012 in gender gap of all counties around the world. The report of gender gap was based on four factor; employment rate and salary, educational background, health and survival rate, and political participation. In Japan most of Japanese women are being housewives and this is a one point that making Japan being lager gender gap.…
2. Other nations can learn a lot from Japan. They can learn from Japan that government regulation is not always the answer to problems. With Japan having a high level of deflation and the working class has become smaller than the class of people that are retired, they may need an immigration reform. America can play close attention to this issue due to the immigration reform we have going on in this country.…