Japanese Research in Business History. (ISSN 1349-807X) Formerly: Japanese Yearbook on Business History. (ISSN 0910-2027) Published by Business History Society of Japan, Tokyo. Distributed by Yushodo Press, Co., Ltd., Tokyo. Vols. 1-25 (1984-2008). Soft and Hard Bound. Vols. 1-20 Available on demand. ISBN 978-4-8419-3158-7 (set) Volume. 1-25 Set Set price: Yen 125,000 Price per one copy Yen 5,000 (prices for customers out of Japan)
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Volume 25 (2008) ISBN 978-4-8419-0545-8 Regional Finance in Modern and Contemporary Japan A Business Model of Silk Filature Financing by Local Banks --The Case of the Koide Bank-- Takao Naito The Evolution of Financial Institutions Serving Small Businesses in Japan in the Interwar Period Toru Imajoh Local Banks and Local Magnates in Modern Japan--A Historical Overview-- Keishi Shiratori ARTICLE The Entrepreneurial Activities of Eiichi Shibusawa--the Creation of a Joint Stock Company System in the Prewar Period and the Role of the Investor-Exective-- Masakazu Shimada A Reconsideration of the Corporate Finance of Large Japanese Manufacturing Firms during the Intrerwar Period Nao Saito Nissan's Business Strategies in the 1960s--The Process of the Nissan-Prince Merger-- Masachika Shinomiya Volume 24 (2007) ISBN 978-4-8419-0506-9 Production Systems and Industrial Districts in Postwar Japan Industrial District and the Multi-Tiered Supplier System --With Particular Reference to Secondary Suppliers of Metal Pressings in the Automobile Industry-- SHIGERU MATSUSHIMA The Development of the Motorcycle Production System in Hamamatsu JUN OTAHARA The Rise and Growth of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Industrial Districts --Mechanical Engineering in the Higashi-mikawa District-- TOMOKO HASHINO ARTICLES Local Markets and the Development of Agriculture and the Agricultural Processing Industry in 19th Century Japan SHIGEHIKO IOKU Successes and Failures among Porcelain Trading Firms in the Early Meiji Period --The Cases of Morimura Bro., Inc. and Kiryu Kosho & Co. -- HIDETOSHI MIYACHI Volume 23 (2006) ISBN 978-4-8419-0478-9 MERCHANT CAPITAL AND THE MODERNIZATION OF JAPAN Vertical Integration and Commercial Accumulation in the Management of Merchant Business Satoru Nakanishi Merchants' Investment in Securities and the Enterprise Boom: The Case of the House of Sotaro Hiromi Naofumi Nakamura The Development of Bill Circulation in the Late Edo Period Money Exchange Transactions of the House of Hiromi, Rice and Fertilizer Merchants in Kaizuka, Senshu Province Kosuke Nishimukai ARTICLES The Development of the Agricultural Machinery Industry in Prewar Japan Keishi Okabe Beyond the "Lost Decade": Problems Confronting Japanese Companies, and Solutions Takeo Kikkawa Activities of the Shibusawa Memorial Museum during 2006 Jun Inoue Volume 22 (2005) ISBN 978-4-8419-0477-2 RESTRUCTURING IN JAPANESE BUSINESS The Development of Financial Restructuring in Japan, Making Use of the Assumption Company Strategy: Five Default Examples in the Kansai Region in the Early 20th Century Isao Ogawa The Establishment of Hitachi, Ltd Hidetatsu Satoh Restructuring in Cotton-spinning Companies Junko Watanabe ARTICLES The Origins and Development of Honda's Globalization Motorcycles: The Establishment of the Honda Brand, and the Localization of Sales and Production Tsutomu Demizu Origins of Innovation in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry: The Case of Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Company (1923-1976) Julia Yongue Recent Developments at the Shibusawa Memoiral Museum Jun Inoue Volume 21 (2004) ISBN 978-4-8149-0476-5 THE EVOLUTION OF "TRADITIONAL" INDUSTRIES IN JAPAN A Comparative Business History of the Soy Sauce Industry: Yuasa, Tatsuno, and Shodo-shima in Western Japan Masatoshi Amano Traditional Markets and Product Development: The Case of Gekkeikan Kenjiro Ishikawa The Development of the Pottery Industry: The Case of the Tokoname Ceramic Industry Kazuhiro Omori ARTICLES Wartime Mitsubishi Aircraft Engine Manufacturing and the Formation of Production Technology Hiroko Maeda General Electric's International Patent Management before World War II: The "Proxy Application" Contract and the Organizational Capability of Tokyo Electric Shigehiro Nishimura Modernization and Industrialization in Japan and the Unites States: An Attempt at a Comparison Jun Inoue Volume 20 (2003) ISBN 978-4-8419-3157-0 THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY IN JAPAN Yet Another Route for Growth in Japan's Automobile Industry: The Formation and Development of the Three-Wheeler Sector Inman Yeo The Kanban System's Permeation within Toyota: Production Control Integration in an Enterprise Group Haruhito Shiomi Institutional Fatigue in the Automobile Franchise System: Problems within the Sales Practice of Giving Price Concessions Hiromi Shioji ARTICLE The Evolution of Market Structure in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Collective Continuous Transactions in the Fish Fertilizer Market Satoru Nakanishi Volume 19 (2002) ISBN 978-4-8419-3156-3 ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN MEIJI JAPAN How Eiichi Shibusawa Offered Models of Investment and Management to Introduce Modern Business Practices into Japan Masakazu Shimada Takashi Masuda: Resolute Determination on the Strength of Meticulous Care Kunio Suzuki Soichiro Asano: The Man Who Worked All Day on Only Four Hours' Sleep Satoshi Saito ARTICLES Wartime Enterprises in Japan: Their Organization, Workers, and Staff Osamu Nagashima The Evolution of Fertilizer Trading in the Meiji and Taisho Eras Takehisa Yamada Volume 18 (2001) ISBN 978-4-8419-3155-6 INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS The "Sudden Growth" of the Enshu Cotton Textile Industry between the Two World Wars Hiroaki Yamazaki Competition and Cooperation in Japan's Industrial Districts: The Case of the Banshu Textile District after World War II Yasuhiro Ota The Automobile Industry and Industrial Clustering: An Interim Examination Based on Fieldwork in Toyota City and Its Environs Shigeru Matsushima ARTICLES Japan's Telephone Business: Why Did Privatization Take So Long? Nobuyuki Fujii The Rise of the Modern Silk Reeling Industry and Financial Institutions: The Formation of the Institution of Providing Advances on Documentary Bills Masaki Nakabayashi Volume 17 (2000) ISBN 978-4-8419-3154-9 THE OVERSEAS BRANCH ACTIVITIES OF GENERAL TRADING COMPANIES The Business Activities of Mitsubishi in Prewar France Terushi Hara The Activities of General Trading Company Branch Offices in the United States Prior to World War II: Mitsubishi Trading Company Nobuo Kawabe The Business Activities of Mitsui & Co.'s London Branch, 1879-1896 Makoto Kasuya ARTICLES The Development of the Rolling Stock Industry in Prewar Japan Minoru Sawai An Evolutionary Phase of Honda Motor: The Establishment and Success of American Honda Motor June Otahara Volume 16 (1999) ISBN 978-4-8419-3153-2 THE JAPANESE RAILWAY INDUSTRY IN HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Nationalization of Railways: The Japanese and British Cases Takeshi Yuzawa The Formation of a Railway Transportation System in Japan's Railway Industry Naofumi Nakamura Cement Industry Use of Railways ca. 1890-1930: The Case of Asano Cement Keiichi Watanabe ARTICLES Hisaya Iwasaki and the Wharton School Takayasu Miyakawa The Machine Industry in the Meiji Period Jun Suzuki Volume 15 (1998) ISBN 978-4-8419-3152-5 THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS IN JAPAN The Development of Marketing Management in Japan: The Interwar Years Eisuke Daito The Innovativeness and Adaptability of Department Stores in Japan: Birth, Growth, Maturity, and Crisis Kazutoshi Maeda Japan's "Distribution Revolution" and Chain Store Supermarkets Mika Takaoka The Municipal Retail Market in the Modernization of the Structure for Distributing Daily Necessities in Japan's Cities: From the End of the Nineteenth Century until World War II Makoto Hirota ARTICLE Marine Transport Management in Early-Modern Japan Masahiro Uemura Volume 14 (1997) ISBN 978-4-8419-3151-8 THE HISTORY OF JAPAN'S INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RELATIONS WITH ASIAN COUNTRIES The Rise of Salaried Managers: Comparing Japan and South Korea Tamio Hattori Modern Family Business and Corporate Capability in Thailand: A Case Study of the CP Group Akira Suehiro Half a Century of Enterprise Management in Colonial Taiwan: From a "Quasi-National-Policy Company" to a National-Policy-Company Fumikatsu Kubo Origin of the Adoption of the Toyota Production System in China Chunli Lee ARTICLE Competition and Cooperation among Paper and Pulp Enterprises in Modern Japan Prior to World War II: The Rise to Prominence of a Powerful Triumvirate of Enterprises, and Transitions in Cartel Activities Toshiyuki Shinomiya Volume 13 (1996) ISBN 978-4-8419-3150-1 THE WARTIME ECONOMY AND CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE-STYLE MANAGEMENT How and When Japanese Economic and Enterprise Systems Were Formed Juro Hashimoto Industrial Associations as Interactive Knowledge Creation: The Essence of the Japanese Industrial Policy Seiichiro Yonekura Problems of Technology Choice Faced by the Private-Sector Steel Industry in Prewar Japan: Nippon Steel Pipe's Steel Manufacturing Integration and the Introduction of Converters Yoichi Kobayakawa The Subcontracting System during the Japanese Wartime Economy Hirofumi Ueda ARTICLE The Management Systems of Edo Period Merchant Houses Mataro Miyamoto Volume 12 (1995) ISBN 978-4-8419-3149-5 POSTWAR REVIVAL AND AMERICANIZATION Americanization and Postwar Japanese Management: A Bibliographical Approach Takenori Saito American Technical Assistance Programs and the Productivity Movement in Japan Kinsaburo Sunaga The Emergence of the Productivity Improvement Movement in Postwar Japan and Japanese Productivity Missions Overseas Satoshi Sasaki The Introduction and Development of Quality Control in the Communication Equipment Industry, 1945-1955 Toshihiro Wada ARTICLE The Emergence and Transformation of the Divisional Management and Accounting Systems in the House of Mitsui, 1673-1872 Noboru Nishikawa Volume 11 (1994) ISBN 978-4-8419-3148-8 THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT RELATIONS AS RELATED TO JAPAN The Transfer of Leading-edge Technology to Japan: The Krupp-Renn Process Akira Kudo International Oil Cartels and the Japanese Market: Relations between International Cartels and Cartels within Japan As Seen in the 1932 Gasoline Agreement Takeo Kikkawa Baring Brothers & Co. and Japanese Railway Investments, 1901-1906 Toshio Suzuki ARTICE A Comparative Business History of Management in the Cotton Industry Shin'ichi Yonekawa Volume 10 (1993) ISBN 978-4-8419-3147-1 THE GROWTH OF MANAGERIAL ENTERPRISES IN JAPAN Japanese Top Management Hidemasa Morikawa Owners and Salaried Managers in Hitachi Engineering Works: Namihei Odaira's Management Style Masaru Udagawa Postwar Reform in Enterprise Management: Managerial Revolution from Above and the Emergence of the "Japanese-Type" Firm Hideaki Miyajima ARTICLE From the Ford System to the Just-in-Time Production System: A Historical Study of International Shifts in Automobile Production Systems, their Connection, and their Transformation Koichi Shimokawa Volume 9 (1992) ISBN 978-4-8419-3146-4 THE DEVELOPMENT OF DOMESTIC INDUSTRIES The Development of the Producing-Center Cotton Textile Industry in Japan between the Two World Wars Takeshi Abe The Evolution of Indigenous Cotton Textile Manufacture before and after the Opening of the Ports Masayuki Tanimoto Trends in Textile Mill Operations within the Senboku Weaving Industry in the 1920s and 1930s Takanori Matsumoto ARTICLE Management Philosophy in the Early Years of Industrialization in Japan: In Search of a Theoretical Framework for International Comparison Hiroshi Hazama Volume 8 (1991) ISBN 978-4-8419-3145-7 BUSINESS SYSTEMS Corporate Groups and Keiretsu in Japan Masahiro Shimotani The Development of Tiered Inter-firm Relationships in the Automobile Industry: A Case Study of Toyota Motor Corporation Kazuo Wada The Enterprise System in Japan: Preliminary Considerations on Internal and External Structural Relations Tsunehiko Yui ARTICLE The Bureaucratization of Japanese Firms and Academic Credentialism: A Case Study of Hitachi, Ltd. Shinji Sugayama Volume 7 (1990) ISBN 978-4-8419-3144-0 ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS The Move into Manchuria of the Nissan Combine Masaru Udagawa Business Activities of the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. in Japan Prior to World War II Takeo Kikkawa Trends in Research on Overseas Expansion by Japanese Enterprises Prior to World War II Tetsuya Kuwahara Volume 6 (1989) ISBN 978-4-8419-3143-3 HUMAN RESOURCES IN JAPANESE BUSINESS Distribution of Engineers in Private Enterprise in Mid-Taisho - Their Role at the Inception of Entry into Heavy and Chemical Industries - Hoshimi Uchida A Historical Examination of Mitsui's Strategies for Promoting Long-Term Continuous Service Akiko Chimoto ARTICLES The Organizational Problems of the Prewar Mitsui Trading Company with Special Reference to the Shipping Department Kazutoshi Maeda The Overseas Branches of Mitsubishi Limited during The First World War - With Particular Reference to the London Branch - Yasuaki Nagasawa REPORTS Business History Research in 1987: Japan Teiichiro Fujita, Makoto Seoka, Yoshimi Uekawa Business History Research in 1987: Other Nations Takuji Sakamoto, Tomoaki Saito, Namiko Harumi, Toshikatsu Nakajima Volume 5 (1988) ISBN 978-4-8419-3142-6 BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY IN MODERN JAPAN Japanese Management in Historical Perspective: Informal, Integrative, Democratic, and Focused on the Long Term Keiichiro Nakagawa The Development of Large Enterprises in Japan: An Analysis of the Top 50 Enterprises in the Profit Ranking Table (1929-1984) Hiroaki Yamazaki Development, Organization, and Business Strategy of Industrial Enterprises in Japan (1915-1935) Tsunehiko Yui ARTICLES I. G. Farben's Japan Strategy: The Case of Synthetic Oil Akira Kudo The Products and Market Strategies of the Osaka Cotton Spinning Company: 1883-1914 Matao Miyamoto REPORTS Business History Research in 1986: Japan Takeshi Oshio Business History Research in 1986: Other Nations Reiko Okayama, Takao Tanaka, Jun Sakudo Volume 4 (1987) ISBN 978-4-8419-3141-9 TECHNOLOGY AND LABOR IN MODERN JAPAN The Inside Contract System in Japan: With Particular Reference to the Coal Mining Industry Yukio Yamashita Modernization of Technology and Labor in Pre-War Japanese Electrical Machinery Enterprises Toshiaki Chokki Scientific Management Movements in Pre-War Japan Satoshi Sasaki ARTICLES The Development of Yasukawa Electric Co. and its Entrepreneurial Activities Shin Hasegawa The Foundations and Amalgamation of Miike Nitrogen Industries Inc. and Toyo Koatsu Industries Inc. Tsuneo Suzuki The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry, 1929-33, and the Establishment of the Nippon Steel Co. Tetsuji Okazaki REPORTS The Works of Japanese Business Historians in 1985: Business History of Japan Toshiyuki Shinomiya The Works of Japanese Historians: Foreign Business History Haruhito Shiomi Volume 3 (1986) ISBN 978-4-8419-3140-2 THE HISTORY OF COMPANIES IN JAPAN The Early History of Japanese Companies Shigeaki Yasuoka The Formation and Evolution of the Corporate Business System in Japan Hisashi Masaki ARTICLES The Progress of Shipping Operators Belonging to Trading Companies: The Scheduled Services to North America of the Shipping Division of Mitsui Trading Company Between the Two World Wars Shin Goto Management and Regulation of the Electric Power Industry (1923-1935) Takeo Kikkawa The Establishment of Oligopoly in the Japanese Cotton-Spinning Industry and the Business Strategies of Latecomers: The Case of Naigaiwata & Co., Ltd. Tetsuya Kuwahara Employment in the Meiji Period: From "Tradition" to "Modernity" Akiko Chimoto REPORTS The Works of Japanese Business Historians in 1984: Business History of Japan Kazutoshi Maeda The Works of Japanese Business Historians in 1984: Business Histories of Foreign Countries Etsuo Abe Volume 2 (1985) ISBN 978-4-8419-3139-6 THE JAPANESE BUSINESS SYSTEM The Formation of General Trading Companies: A Comparative Study Shin'ichi Yonekawa Labor Management in Japan Hiroshi Hazama Japan's Early Industrialization and the Transfer of Government Enterprises: Government and Business Masaaki Kobayashi ARTICLES The Prewar Japanese Automobile Industry and American Manufacturers Masaru Udagawa Succeeding Against Odds, Courting Collapse: How Mistubishi Shipbuilding and Kawasaki Dockyard Managed the Post-WWI Slump Takao Shiba The Formation of the Riken Industrial Group Satoshi Saito REPORTS The Works of Japanese Historians in 1983: Business History of Japan Seishi Nakamura The Works of Japanese Business Historians in 1982/83: Business History of Foreign Countries Kinsaburo Sunaga Volume 1 (1984) ISBN 978-4-8419-3138-9 THE JAPANESE BUSINESS SYSEM The Development of the Organizational Structure of Top Management in Meiji Japan Tsunehiko Yui Business Finance in Japanese Business History Kazuo Sugiyama ARTICLES A History of the Process Leading to the Formation of Fuji Electric Hisashi Watanabe Flow-of-Funds Analysis of the Sumitomo Zaibatsu Shoichi Asajima The Retreat from Diversification and the Desire for Specialization in Konoike: Late Meiji to Early Showa Matao Miyamoto, Kensuke Hiroyama REPORTS Report of the Long-term Trends of the Business History Society of Japan Hidemasa Morikawa The Works of Japanese Business Historians in 1982: Business History of Japan Yasuaki Nagasawa The Works of Japanese Business Historians in 1982: Business History of Foreign Countries Terushi Hara

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