... panel of motorboat racers in Japan, and estimates a fixed-effects negative binomial regression model to analyze determining factors in the number of wins in a final, focusing on not only physical factors but also social capital. Findings Bridging social capital, measured by the number of racers...

...Eiji Yamamura Purpose There is controversy between Putnam and Olson concerning the role of groups. Putnam argued that small groups contribute to economic growth, whereas Olson asserted that small groups hamper economic growth through rent‐seeking behavior. Since the end of the 1990s in Japan...

... Time discount Japan Stochastic games Individual behaviour The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 explains the survey design. Section 3 formalizes our dictator game, which considers both social and time discounting in its conjoint analysis. Section 4 displays the estimation results...

... to increased levels of special interest spending in Japan. Much like the 1861 Constitution of the Confederate States of America, the Japanese constitution was similar to the US Constitution in some (though fewer in number) respects, and it was written by individuals who had lived/worked under the US...

... Japan Politics A most interesting aspect from the viewpoint of social economics is that Japan, rather than being colonized at the time of the Western Powers’ advances in East Asia, continued as an independent nation, and subsequently was rapidly modernized, in preparation for the development...

...Hiroshi Ishida What were the spinning industries like in the initial stage in Japan? From which class did the founders of these industries come, ex‐warrior or commoners (merchants or farmers)? This will interest readers. Viewed from a capital investment, it was most significant in Japan whether...

...Dominic Smith; Paul Riethmuller Food safety, always an important issue, has recently gained a higher profile following a number of highly publicised incidents in Australia and overseas. Consumers in Australia and Japan were surveyed to obtain information on a range of issues including food safety...

...Wanda Anasz Part two, also comprising seven chapters, looks at the role of labour unions in changing labour markets. Shinoda probes the role of Rengo, the only federation of labour unions in present‐day Japan, in shaping policies at the national level, Ohmi outlines labour issues...

.... Mari   Sako , Hiroki   Sato Editors . Japanese Labour and Management in Transition . Routledge , 1997 . © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> Industrial relations Japan Human resource management Personnel policy Part two, also comprising seven chapters, looks at the role...

... and recipients of technology. This paper presents in part some of the results of the study conducted in Brunei Darussalam. The study focuses on Brunei‐Japan joint ventures located in Brunei. Based on these results, this study suggests three types of technology transfer models across cultures; that is, a success...

...Yoshihiro Toyama Reports the lead up to the privatization of the three public corporations in Japan and the performance of the resultant privatized enterprises. Examines the problems associated with privatization such as denationalization and deregulation and suggests ways that future...

... at the Takashima coal mine (Kojima, 1988). Originally, the Takashima coal mine had been modernized by an English man, Thommas Blake Glover. He is thought to have been an agent of Jardine Matheson, a large trading company. In those days, the Takashima coal mine was the most famous one in Japan because of its...

...K. Tsuchiya; P. Riethmuller Spotlights important developments in the Japanese food distribution system over the past two to three years. States that, foreign pressure, combined with economic and social change in Japan, has forced the Japanese Government to alter some government regulations...

.... Discusses the factors which cause the restriction of the yen, with particular reference to other Asian countries and their shift of official reserves from the dollar towards the yen. Suggests that Japan must find new trade relations which are less dependent on the US market if the yen is to increase its...

...Paul A. Herbig; Pat Borstorff The Shinjinrui are those Japanese who came of age during the 1970s and afterwards. They have had little or no experience with the postwar traumas their parents encountered. Quite the contrary, they have experienced only awareness of Japan as a rich country, success...

... the economy of post‐war Japan as an economic system, and the necessity for government intervention and market competition to promote industrialization. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Competition Industry Japan Central Government International Journal of Social Economics 19,10/11/12 Implications...

... the growth of the tourism industry, and not just the privileged few. The article concludes by discussing the prospect of this happening, given existing social,political and institutional constraints. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Australia Economic theory Japan Tourism Economic growth Foreign...

.... The role of the power elite is discussed in greater detail with particular reference to the taxation system and the structure of wealth which operates within Japan. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Japan Taxation Management styles Conglutination and Managerial Dominance versus Diversification of Life...