with the industrialized world, but throughout this process, many aspects of Japanese policy and culture…
Early industrialization raised new issues in Japan in all of the following areas EXCEPT? Strong women’s rights protests…
During WWII however, Japan takes Nazi Germany's side and as a result in 1945, the United States drop two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This leads Japan to surrender and to disband its military and naval forces. During the war Japan lost 25% of its national wealth, its production levels were 10% of what the were before the war and this all caused hyper-inflation as well as commodity shortage. The West tried to democratize Japan politically and economically and this led to things such as the dissolution of the Zaibatsu, large conglomerates of major companies which lead to the more even spreading out of the country's wealth. In 1947 American fair market rules were introduced, securing market competition and transparency. Furthermore, labor movements were legalized and the compulsory education was extended from 6 to 9 years. However high inflation persisted and so to rapidly reconstruct the economy, the government implemented a strategy to concentrate resources in priority industrial sectors such as steel, coal mining, electricity, marine and railway transportation, and chemical fertilizer. Due to this industrial production rapidly recovered and in just two years, production levels increased from 31% of prewar levels to 80%. In 1949, a series of policies were conducted by Joseph Dodge, a US banker who came to Japan as an economic adviser to the Allied force General Headquarters…
Japan: collective capitalism: collective identity, interlocking share ownership, lifetime employment, pensions/social protection of workers, focus on benefitting citizens/country as whole (Fulcher, 2004).…
Because of the changes to the demand, the labor force in Japan began to become active in the industries. When they thought the retail and minor business were under different control, several of the new firms were starting to be under the supervision of the government. The government later changed these new companies into banking, mining, shipbuilding, and textiles. With the modification of the industrialization, it started to effect was positions of the workers. Japan was trying to obtain students and train them for jobs that they will work for, for their entire lifetime. That was another influence Japan adopted because of the western influences. Former and current workers worked as an individual worker, these workers had to beyond flexible, and accomplish their jobs. With the western influences, numerous of the oldest skills workers had started to become obsolete, because the new skill set was starting to be introduced. Therefore, with the new skill set and the flexible work set, Japan wanted additional workers that would adopt the new technology ways. (Do7) As the same with militarism, Japan started to realize that industrialization was just slowing the process of…
Unfortunately, labor unions became controlled by the Communist Party, causing shortages of goods. Strikes began nationwide. United States and Japan made economic and social stability their top priority. United Stated and Japan withdrew their support for labor unions. This conservative social policy set the pattern for Japanese capitalism in the decades to come. The U.S. occupation authorities installed in Japan a type of democratic, free enterprise system that promoted political and economic practices closely resembling those in Japan in the 1920”s (Brower, 2006).…
Japan is one now of the most advanced countries in the world and but it hasn’t always been this way. It has had to overcome many problems to succeed against all odds. This essay will be finding out how it has managed this.…
2. Other nations can learn a lot from Japan. They can learn from Japan that government regulation is not always the answer to problems. With Japan having a high level of deflation and the working class has become smaller than the class of people that are retired, they may need an immigration reform. America can play close attention to this issue due to the immigration reform we have going on in this country.…
POSITIVE: The increase in education opportunities for Japanese girls ultimately allowed them to question the status quo and strive to make further changes to better their situation. The Meiji reforms saw widespread changes to the education system by making it accessible to all. This created intense competition for placement in academic schools offering good prospects for entry into a noted university and ultimately enhancing employment opportunities and chances of success, in turn reflecting positively on the ie. NEGATIVE: In traditional society, the ie. had the role of instilling cultural values, whereas in modern Japan, the education system is now charged with that task, teaching junior students the importance of continuity and group identity within a hierarchical context. POSITIVE: Such increased education opportunities for girls gave them the necessary tools to reinforce the ideal of equality of the sexes, introduced by the post WWII democracy, written in the Japanese constitution in form of voting rights and equal opportunity employment, ultimately leading to a dramatic change in the status of women. Statistics also show that one third of Japanese women are entering institutions of higher education and re-entering the workforce as their children enter school. NEGATIVE: On the contrary, some within Japanese society consider such changes to be…
We see a technological upgrade in Japan’s military as well as a brand new Constitution. This constitution states that “ all people are equal under the eyes of the law”. Many countries have started a constitution similar to this, and it was a great step into the future. The Japanese take a full turn in the opposite direction they were a hundred years ago, and went from being 100% anti Western, to being totally influenced by the Western Society. Japan becomes an industrial power due to there being many new factories and the production of silk rocketing. There are now new schools, higher education, yet women were still seen as unequal.…
The modernization of countries around the world couldn’t keep up with its advancements and is recognized today as one of the biggest world powers. This benefited Japan greatly and the good outweighs the bumpy start to the…
The Tombow Pencil Co. established in the early 20th Centaury has survived many difficult times in Japanese history, including the Second World War, numerous recessions and fundamental technological changes affecting its market. However, profits have declined and remained low during the 1990’s despite efforts to modernise.…
Takashi, I. (1997). Changing Japanese labor and employment system. Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry, 16(4), 20-24.…
These authors, in their interviews with exchange students from Japan, can help us understand the big difference between the U.S. and Japan. They help put it into a real life example and show the different views of what is best for a country. Is it better to have “the government wither away and be individually free”, as Woodward says, or to “turn all power over to the state”?…
Japan is one of the important countries of the world. However, in sexual gap situation Japan is place on lowest position in group of eight countries that have largest economies or called G8. According to the world economic forum (2012), report that Japan ranked at 101st on year 2012 in gender gap of all counties around the world. The report of gender gap was based on four factor; employment rate and salary, educational background, health and survival rate, and political participation. In Japan most of Japanese women are being housewives and this is a one point that making Japan being lager gender gap.…