Human Resource Development in Twentieth-Century Japan

For Japan, where natural resources are not abundant, the importance of human resources cannot be overstated. It is the person, and the person only, that determines economic wealth. So what characteristics will emerge when reviewing the economic development of modern Japan through its history of human resources formation?

In this book, we will examine the formation and allocation of human resources that brought about economic growth, focusing on the form of education and training in schools, companies, and the military. In particular, how are knowledge and skills delivered in a "have-not" country like Japan? Following transitions from the Edo period to the present age, we approach the core of Japanese systems from both historical and theoretical perspectives.

TAKENORI Inoki
Born in 1945 in Shiga prefecture. Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Former Dean of Economics at Osaka University and Director of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies. Specially-appointed Professor of Graduate School of Economics at Aoyama Gakuin University until March 2016. His primary English works include Aspects of German Peasant Emigration to the U.S.: 1845-1914 (Arno Press, 1981), Skill Formation in Japan and Southeast Asia (with Koike, K.) (University of Tokyo Press, 1991), and College Graduates in Japanese Industry (with Koike, K.) (Japan Institute of Labor, 2003). Primary Japanese works include Keizai seichō no kajitsu (Fruits of Economic Growth) (Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2000) and Jiyū to chitsujo: Kyōsō shakai no futatsu no kao (Freedom and Order: Two Faces of Competitive Society) (Chuokoron-Shinsha, 2001).

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Japan Library series
Business & Economics

Publisher:
Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture

Hardcover
¥3,900 + tax
ISBN 9784916055781
220 mm x 148 mm / 264 pp. / March 2017

eBook
ISBN 9784866580036 (ePub)
ISBN 9784916055903 (PDF)

CONTENTS
Foreword to the English Edition
Introduction
1. Education in the Edo and Meiji Periods
2. Industrialization and the Labor Force
3. The Military and Industry
4. Postwar Schools and Educational Investment
5. Human Resource Development in Factories
6. White-Collar Workers
7. The Public Sector
8. Emigration and Immigration
Conclusion
Works Cited
Appendix
About the Author

資源小国日本にとって、人材の重要性は強調してもし過ぎることはない。近代日本の経済発展を人材形成の歴史として読みなおすと、どのような特徴が浮かびあがるのか。経済成⾧をもたらした人的資源の形成と配分を、学校、会社、軍隊などの教育・訓練の姿を中心に検証する。江戸期から現代へ、歴史と理論の両面から日本のシステムの核心に迫る。

猪木武徳
1945年滋賀県生まれ。京都大学経済学部卒業。米国マサチューセッツ工科大学大学院修了（Ph.D.）。大阪大学経済学部長を経て、国際日本文化研究センター所長。2016年3月まで青山学院大学大学院特任教授。主な著書に、『経済思想』（岩波書店）、『人材形成の国際比較』（小池和男との共編著、東洋経済新報社）、文芸にあらわれた日本の近代』（有斐閣）、『戦後世界経済史』『経済学に何ができるか』（中公新書）などがある。

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