The Japanese Experience of Economic Reforms [Paperback]

The Japanese Experience of Economic Reforms offers a renewed investigation into the process of economic reforms and stabilization in Japan after the Second World War. Each chapter reviews policy measures undertaken during this process, discusses their economic rationale, and evaluates their effectiveness. The authors point out a gradual, step-wise process and the government's emphasis on micro and supply-side issues as main characteristics of the Japanese experience. Relevance of the Japanese experience to the developing and post-socialist countries is also discussed.Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; J.Teranishi & Y.Kosai - Price and Goods Control in the Japanese Postwar Inflationary Period; M.Kuroda - Inflation Stabilization with Growth: Japanese Experience, 1945-50; J.Teranishi - The Postwar Hyperinflation and the Dodge Plan, 1945-50: An Overview; H.Yoshikawa & T.Okazaki - Japan's Experience in the Immediate Postwar Period: The Process Towards a Single Exchange Rate and Denationalization of Trade; M.Fukao, M.Oumi & K.Etch - Economic Effects of the Deconcentration Policies in Postwar Japan; Y.Miwa - Financial System Reform after the War; J.Teranishi - Land Reform of Japanese Agriculture; T.Kawagoe - Postwar Reforms in Management and Labour: The Case of the Steel Industry; S.Yonekura - National Economic Independence and the Rationalization of Industry; Y.Yonezawa - Technology Importation: Japan's Postwar Experience; A.Goto - The Role of Economic Planning in Japan; T.Komine - Trade and Capital Liberalization Policies in Postwar Japan; T.Nakakita - Deregulation and Protectionism in Japanese Agriculture; T.Kawagoe - Index