Asia in Japan's Embrace
Building a Regional Production Alliance
Part of Cambridge Asia-Pacific Studies
- Authors:
- Walter Hatch, University of Washington
- Kozo Yamamura, University of Washington
- Date Published: August 1996
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521565158
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This book is an incisive analysis of Japan's deepening economic presence in Asia. It challenges neoclassical economists, arguing that instead of simply building a 'yen bloc' or responding to market forces, Japanese business and government elites are working together to build an expanded - and potentially exclusive - production zone. The authors suggest that the transplantation of many standard Japanese business practices in Asia is based on the concept of keiretsu (enterprise group) which allows a complex web of production networks to develop. The book shows that such strategic control of technology is a unique model of globalisation. While informed by economic theory, Asia in Japan's Embrace is highly accessible, containing interviews and anecdotal evidence from factory floors and board rooms. It is comprehensive and controversial, outlining policy implications and the impact on global trade.
Read more- Written in an engaging, accessible style, including interviews and anecdotal evidence
- Offers challenge to neo-classical economic theory
- Recommends ways in which damaging 'trade wars' between Japan and the West can be avoided
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'Readers familiar with recent writings on Japan will find this book steers a middle course between the neoclassical view, which denies Japan's uniqueness, and the revisionist arguments pioneered by Chalmers Johnson and emphasised by James Fallows. The book is easy to read, well-written, and carefully explained. When it uses concepts or terms such as keiretsu it is careful to explain them. The first four chapters, in particular, are to be recommended to all readers.' Salim Rashid, The Economic Journal
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- Date Published: August 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521565158
- length: 298 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.44kg
- contains: 10 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface, Part I. Co-prosperity Again:
1. Crossing borders: the Japanese difference
2. Flying geese: an unequal alliance in Asia
Part II. The Embracer and the Embraced:
3. Cooperation between unequals
4. The political economy of Japan
5. The political economy of Asia
6. Holding technology
Part III. A Japanese Alliance in Asia:
7. The visible handshake
8. Vertical veins of humanity
9. The labor network
10. The supply network
Part IV. A Poweful Embrace:
11. The ties that bind
12. Loosening the knot.
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