Japan as a Manipulated Society

While the success of the Japanese economy is widely discussed, the thrust of the analyses have recently changed. In the late 1970s they were critical in the sense that this success was seen as based on cheap labor, employees' self-sacrifice, substandard housing and sewage systems, people's thrift, a “conspiracy” among government, big business and finance, and so on. In the 1980s, such explanations have turned to a reappraisal of “Japanese management” and other similar factors.2 Nonetheless, it remains that Japanese economic growth has been achieved at the expense of the folk tradition. A high degree of conformity and homogeneity in Japanese society and a banzai collectivity of corporate institutions have facilitated economic prosperity

Conformity · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Prosperity · Sacrifice · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law

• Japanese and American Principals

  David Blake Willis, Carol A Bartell•Comparative Education•1990

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