...Joan R. Piggott The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel Taira Masakado . By Karl F. Friday . Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley , 2008 . xii , 220 pp. $24.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 In this excellent book written...

...Koji Taira Unkept Promises, Unclear Consequences: U.S. Economic Policy and the Japanese Response . Edited by Ryuzo Sato and John A. Rizzo . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1988 . x, 200 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK...

...Kōji Taira British Factory—Japanese Factory: The Origins of National Diversity in Industrial Relations . By Ronald Dore . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1973 . 432 pp. Appendix, Index. $11.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974...

...Koji Taira Beyond Mass Production: The Japanese System and Its Transfer to the U. S. . By Martin Kenney and Richard Florida . New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xii, 410 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 212...

...Koji Taira Japanese Workers and the Struggle for Power, 1945–1947 . By Joe Moore . Madison, Wisc. : University of Wisconsin Press , 1983 . xx, 305 pp. Tables, Figures, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $22.50. Contemporary Industrial Relations in Japan . Edited by Taishiro Shirai...

...Koji Taira Comeback, Case by Case: Building the Resurgence of American Business . By Ezra F. Vogel . New York : Simon and Schuster , 1985 . 320 pp. Bibliography, Index. $17.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1986 1986 616 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the attention...

...Koji Taira Patchwork Protectionism: Textile Trade Policy in the United States, Japan, and West Germany . By H. Richard Friman . Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press , 1990 . x , 209 pp. $27.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1991 1991 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN...

...Koji Taira Abstract Economic development makes resources available for a variety of desirable social goals. However, many of these goals are not automatically related to the economic mechanism of production and income distribution in a private enterprise economy. The social values that sustain...

...William K. Cummings Abstract In recent years, several empirically based studies of blue collar and white collar Japanese workers—notably by Taira, Hazama, Marsh and Mannari, Cole, and Evans—have resulted in a substantial “revision” of our understanding of Japanese labor markets. 2 These studies...

... Economies of Japan and the United States compares numerous aspects of the allegedly impersonal labor market of the United States; he finds the differences surprisingly small and the parallels surprisingly large. Koji Taira's Economic Development and the Labor Market in Japan is primarily a series of studies...

... and early Kamakura periods, the differences between the two systems tended to dissolve as both moved toward becoming private fiefs (pp. 588-89). Six of the seventeen articles in the second volume deal with Kyushu. While everyone claims that the Taira family had a strong local base in western Japan...

... everyone claims that the Taira family had a strong local base in western Japan, particularly Kyushu, there are few concrete studies dealing with this base. Iida Hisao has done an excellent job of investigating Taira family connections with Kyushu in "Heishi to Kyushu" (The Taira Family and Kyushu...

... by warriors in the late twelfth century and tells us nearly as much about court life at the time as about the Taira and Minamoto elite of emerging warrior society. I regard the Heike as second in excellence only to The Tale of Genji as a work of Japanese prose literature. % t the Heike has received...

... is a period of Japanese history that, while relatively short in duration, is a major turning point: the end of direct rule by the imperial court, the beginning of warrior rule, and the shifting of the locus of government to the east have all been traced back to the Minamoto victory over their Taira foes...

... and institutional history of the Kamakura shogunate. James Murdoch relied upon it exclusively for his coverage of the political events of the time, and two years ago Sir George Sansom supplemented its accounts with private diaries of the times in the engrossing account of the Taira-Minamoto wars he provided in his...

... has sunk to the bottom of the sea.” Shinoda, 302–03. An earlier account in the Azuma pagami , under date of Genreki 2/3/24 (April 25, 1185), states: “The imperial second rank Taira Tokiko, widow of Kiyomori, and the Lady Azechi sank to the bottom of the sea, the former clutching the Sacred Sword...

... consists of fourteen chapters: an introduction by the editor, six articles on politics and foreign policy, four on the economy, (including Koji Taira's contribution on the labor market), one on rural society, and two on intellectual developments. As this list indicates, the emphasis is overwhelmingly...

...Byron K. Marshall An Outline of Japanese Economic History 1603–1940: Major Works and Research Findings . Edited by Mikio Sumiya and Koji Taira . Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press , 1979 . xiv, 372 pp. Index. Y 5,400. Japanese Business: A Research Guide with Annotated Bibliography...

...: Stanford University Press, 1980. $17.50. This book is a full translation of Kenreimon'in Ukyo no Daibu sbii (Poetic Collection of Kenreimon'in Ukyo no Daibu, ca. 1220). The author, Ukyo no Daibu, had been a lady-in-waiting to Taira no Tokuko (daughter of Kiyomori, consort of Emperor Takakura, and mother...

... centuries" (p. 7). This is a badly outdated view, out of tune with all recent work in Japanese and most in English. Another problem is Varley's portrayal of the Taira as courtier-warriors, as if this were something unusual or responsible for their undoing. Japanese historians have come to distinguish...