The Japanese Industrial Economy: Late Development and Cultural Causation

by Inkster Ian and Ian Inkster

This book reveals that the manipulation of culture was of more importance than the character of the original cultural stock in explaining Japan's modern industrialization. Thus the features of private enterprise culture that are so often isolated as keys to the nation's historical competitiveness may have been only temporary reflections of this wider process of cultural engineering: a necessary input into the program of technology transfer and late...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415250013
• ISBN13: 9780415250016
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"