A "unified" treatment of various features of Japanese practices is provided, and a consistent economic model that explains how Japanese firms operate and what they achieve is suggested. Examples of operational practices in Japanese firms. The hierarchy of ranks. The nature of bank-oriented...

1 Seven Intellectual Ventures -- 2 Student Movement -- 3 Three of My Seniors -- 4 “Reiji Himeoka” -- 5 Nouvelle Vague -- 6 From Whence My DNA -- 7 Childhood -- 8 Middle School Years -- 9 High School Years -- 10 Sugamo Prison and Anti-Security Treaty Struggle -- 11 Dissolution of the Bund --...