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Name: Jae-Won Sun
Email: jsun at fas.harvard.edu
Institution: Harvard University

Co-author: none

Title: Financing and Employment Adjustment: Enterprise Consolidation 
in Japan, 1945-49

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Language: English and Japanese

Abstract:
In this paper, I will examine the relationship between the government 
and business in the process of enterprise consolidation in Japan 
during the period of its postwar reconstruction from 1945 to 1949. 
The enterprise consolidation was the primary factor that enabled 
businesses to thrive in the period of rapid economic growth from 
1950s to the early 1970s. Previous studies have focused on the role 
of the US Occupation and have overlooked the fact that the Japanese 
government played a decisive role in the process of enterprise 
consolidation through the Policy of Enterprise Consolidation for 
Reconstruction (the ECR policy). Moreover, the corporations availed 
themselves of the ECR policy for resolving the two contemporary 
problems: the shortage of funds and the surplus of company employees.

Bibliography: Sun, Jae-Won. "Financing and Employment Adjustment: 
Enterprise Consolidation in Japan, 1945-49." Manuscript, Harvard 
University, 2001.

Subject: B
Geographical Area: 2
Country/Region: Japan
Time Period: 9

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