2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Indusutrial Adjustment in Japan : An Historical Approach
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22530336
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
WATANABE Junko 京都大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 教授 (90261271)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 産業調整 / 構造不況 / 繊維 / 石炭 |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to analyse the structural adjustment processes in Japan from a historical perspective, by making a comparison between the textile, coal mining, shipbuilding and steel industries, during the 1960s-70s.
By analysing government policies of the period, it is clear that there were serious attempts on the part of the government to construct a strategy to support the coal mining and textile industries, which had fallen into structural recession early in the decades. Concerning firms and industrial organisation, through quantitative observations and a firm-level analysis of the factors behind the bankruptcies of the coal and textile industries during the period, it is apparent that industrial collapse did not occur in a particular period, but was a drawn-out process that lasted over several decades.
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