E-Journal

January/February 1997 Issue

January/February 1997 Issue

Consumer Activity in Japan

Cover Story : Consumer Activity in Japan
Japanese Consumers Begin to Enjoy Life: A Return to Pre-Meiji Era Pleasure-seeking?
by Sekizawa Hidehiko
Cover Story : Consumer Activity in Japan
The Two Consumers: What’s Happening to Japanese Marketing in the 90’s?
by Katahira Hotaka
Cover Story : Consumer Activity in Japan
Reading Consumption through Trends in Consumer Activity
by Sano Michiko
JAPANOMICS
Is Administrative Reform Feasible?
By Hamano Takayoshi
CLOSE UP
The State of Digitalization in Modern Japan: the Road to an Advanced Information Network Society
by Iwasaki Ieo
JAPAN EYE
Across Two Millennia
by Michael E. Stanley
FINANCE
Bank, Security Think Tanks Foresee Decelerated Growth in the Next Fiscal Year
by Sakamoto Sakae
GALLERY
Tableaux of Newly Imagined Landscapes: Hori Kosai
by Iseki Masaaki
OBSERVER
State-holders and Japanese Enterprises
by Robert J. Ballon
TOP DRAWER
The Success of De Beers’ Marketing Activities in Japan
by Keith Ives
FOREIGN BUSINESS
Imports of Special Forest Products in Bloom
by Hayden Stewart & Keith Blatner
ANTENA
Japan Should Learn From Hong Kong’s Bubble – Free Real Estate Market
by Tamura Hideo
FEATURE
A History of Japanese Industry (5): Industrial Development between Two World Wars
by Tsukamoto Takeshi
OUTING
Kyoto-city Fabric
by Bill Tingey
BOOKSHELF
Japanese Industry in the American South
by Prabhu Guptara
ECONOMIC INDICATORS
Charts January/ February 1997
EDITORIAL NOTE & TOPICS
EDITORIAL NOTE & TOPICS Jan/Feb 1997

Japan SPOTLIGHT