...Laura E. Hein The Era of High-Speed Growth: Notes on the Postwar Japanese Economy . By Yutaka Kosai . Translated by Jacqueline Kaminski . Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press , 1986 . xiv , 223 pp. $24.50. (Distributed by Columbia University Press) Copyright © The Association...

... will be surprised by neither his elegant prose nor his themes. All three essays on the economy, by E. Sydney Crawcour, Takafusa Nakamura, and Yutaka Kosai, while lucid and valuable, reiterate material the three have published accessibly elsewhere. By contrast, the trenchant essay by Taichiro Mitani...

... title and mission, is that of Yutaka Kosai in his chapter on government-business relationships and competitiveness. Kosai draws the following four conclusions: (1) macroeconomic policies (such as fixed exchange rates) have really accounted for Japanese growth; (2) the government matters as a rule-setter...

... countries. A puzzling contribution, given the volume's title and mission, is that of Yutaka Kosai in his chapter on government-business relationships and competitiveness. Kosai draws the following four conclusions: (1) macroeconomic policies (such as fixed exchange rates) have really accounted for Japanese...

...Bai Gao Japan's Political Marketplace . By J. Mark Ramseyer and Frances McCall Rosenbluth . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1993 . viii, 262 pp. $39.95. The Japanese Experience of Economic Reforms . Edited by Juro Teranishi and Yutaka Kosai . New York : Martin's...

..., the pro-Russian Japanese merchant who served as mediator in the release of the Russian Captain Golovnin, and on the amazing Tachibana Kosai, who in the course of his life became tutor to Iosif Antonovich Goshkevich, the first Russian Consul in Japan, served as an official in the Russian Ministry...

... and Gary Saxonhouse show that, contrary to popular belief, government subsidies for industrial research and development are far lower in Japan than in the United States and Europe. Murakami, Muramatsu Michio and Ellis Krauss, and Kosai Yutaka all suggest that the contribution of the elite bureaucracy...

... theory of Western social science the rational choice perspective to the Japanese case, assuming that the applicability of this theory is universal, while in The Japanese Experience of Economic Reforms, Juro Teranishi, Yutaka Kosai, and their associates try to identify the Japanese characteristics...

...-dependent as Yutaka Kosai and Fumihide Takeuchi (p. 316) conclude. What were considered assets at one time for example, the people's proclivity for high savings and low consumption, the government's inclination for fiscal conservatism, the elite bureaucrats' penchant for administrative guidance...

... (Akiyoshi Horiuchi and Hans-Eckart Scharrer) and anti-inflation policy (Yutaka Kosai and Giinter Steinmann) are discussed in two separate chapters. Until the first oil shock of 1973, Japanese monetary management and anti-inflationary policy were subordinated to the needs of growth. Moderate rises...

... returns. Although these desiderata can spur initial growth, they may not be able to sustain it in the long run. Thus, the East Asian model of growth (even admitting its many empirical variations, Rowen, p. 342) may be time-bound and 470 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES context-dependent as Yutaka Kosai...

... are the pages on Takada Kahei, the pro-Russian Japanese merchant who served as mediator in the release of the Russian Captain Golovnin, and on the amazing Tachibana Kosai, who in the course of his life became tutor to Iosif Antonovich Goshkevich, the first Russian Consul in Japan, served as an official...

... down to talk and decide the issues. Japan's "modern" economists, moreover, such as Kosai Yutaka and Nakamura Takafusa are less than enthusiastic about MITI's credentials as a "pilot agency." One of the lessons of this book, however, is that MITI flourishes in times of adversity. (MITI's predecessor...

... no seiritsu,” p. 60ff. 23 Tsutomu Kōsai , “ Ebina no Nan'ami ,” Yōkyoku kai [ The World of Nō Texts ] Vol. ILIX , no. 4 (Oct. 1, 1939 ), pp. 38 – 41 . 24 Hayashiya Tatsusaburō, Chūsei ni okeru toshi to nōson no bunka [ The Culture of Cities and Farming Villages...

...: 1850–1920 , eds. Sven Saaler and Christopher W. A. Szpilman , 195 – 203 . Lanham, Md .: Rowman & Littlefield . Fujimoto Katsuji 藤本勝次 , Ban Kōsai 伴康哉 , and Ikeda Osamu 池田修 , trans. 1970 . Sekai no meicho 世界の名著 [Great books of the world], vol. 15 : Kōran コーラン [Koran]. Tokyo...

... Japan [WILLIAM JOHNSTON] KING, Passionate Journey: The Spiritual Autobiography ofSatomi Myodo [WINSTON DAVIS] KITAGAWA, On Understanding Japanese Religion [THEODORE M. LUDWIG] KONISHI; GATTEN ( t r a n s . ) , A History ofJapanese Literature. Vol. 2: The Early Middle Ages [MEERA S. VISWANATHAN] KOSAI...

... History of Japanese Cities] [YUKIO NISHIMURA] T A N A B E , Myoe the Dreamkeeper: Fantasy and Knowledge in Early Kamakura Buddhism 232 [WILLIAM R. LAFLEUR] T A N A K A , Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History [ K Y U H Y U N K I M ] 233 T E R A N I S H I and KOSAI (eds The Japanese Experience...

... of Japan, Inc., 1955. 7 1. 69-70. SAKAMOTO, TAR6. Historical research in HEIDRICH, P. Liturgie in Japan. ZMR 39. Japan. JQ 2 (Apr./June 1955), 235-46. (1955), 62-65. SAKANISHI, SHIO. Publishing trend. JQ 2 HIRANO, UMEYO, tr. Myoe Shonin [by] Jan./Mar. 1955), 121-26. (Period covered: Kosai Chigiri. Young...

... Business Administration. Annals, no. 10 (1966), RINYA KOSAI KAI. Forestry in Japan. Tokyo, 9-16. Forestry Agency, 1966. 64 p. illus. TAKEZAWA, SHIN-ICHI. Socio-cultural aspects of SMITH, THOMAS CARLYLE. The agrarian origins management in Japan: historical development of modern Japan. New York, Atheneum...

..., 222 Rinchen, 100, 103 Rinchen, Biambyn, 100 Rinya kosai kai, 126 Rishabhchand, 274 Rispaud, Jean, 226 Ritschl, E., 283 Ritti, Shrinivas, 279 Rivett, Eleanor, 258 Riviere, J(uan) Roger, 99, 274 Rixhon, Gerhard, 162 Rizvi, Amjad A. B., 242 Rizvi, S. Alim Ali, 247 Rizvi, Syed Amjad Ali Bahadur, 247...