Business & Economics

Ashes to Awesome
Considered a miracle at the time, Japan’s emergence from devastation to become the world’s...

The Dojima Rice Exchange
The Dojima Rice Exchange of the Edo period (1603-1868), located in Osaka, Japan, is known among...

The Entrepreneur Who Built Modern Japan
In this penetrating biography of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840–1931), one of Japan's foremost...

Global Class Japanese SMEs
Thirty years have passed since Japan emerged on the global stage as the second largest economy...

Heritage Culture and Business, Kyoto Style
Kyoto, where world-class high-tech industries exist alongside heritage industries. Achieving highly...

Human Resource Development in Twentieth-Century Japan
For Japan, where natural resources are not abundant, the importance of human resources cannot be...

Population and the Japanese Economy
Japan, a country where population decline is progressing and the number of workers is decreasing....

The Story of Japan's Ohmi Merchants
From its very origins, Ohmi was a highly developed region bordering Kyoto, the center of political...