Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations Used in the Text; Introduction; 1 Background to Reform: The Development of Japanese Banking, 1868-1945; 2 'Financial Demilitarisation', 1945-8; 3 The Banks and the Antitrust Programme, 1945-8; 4 Legal Reform of the Financial System, 1948-50; 5 Finance Under the Dodge Line, 1949-52; 6 Conclusions; Appendix I: Measures of Banking Concentration in Japan, 1901-52; Appendix II: Measures of 'Overloan', 1900-51; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
How Japan's banking system maintained continuity of development and avoided the occupiers' attempts at "democratisation" and "Americanisation" is the subject of this book. It explores why the Americans were committed to reform, the reasons they failed and how important the maintenance of the financial status quo was to the subsequent development of Japan's "miracle" economy
