Firms and Industrial Organization in Japan

Yoshiro Miwa is Professor of Economics at the University of Tokyo and author of Japanese Trade Practices and Financial Administration Reform, both published in Japanese.

"Miwa has earned quite a name for himself in Japan for his brilliant but biting iconoclastic views. Now, Western readers will learn what the fuss has been about. Self-styled authorities on the Japanese economy will squirm, for Miwa takes no prisoners; his logic is relentless, merciless and-inevitably-right." -J. Mark Ramseyer,University of Chicago Law School "This is a monumental work, demystifying the Japanese economy and contesting the conventional view that 'Japan is different.' In doing so, Miwa paves the way for a new era of comparative study." -Kazuo Koike,Hosei University, Tokyo