Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Part I.
5. 1. Japan's Combines, Target of Occupation Reform 3
6. 2. Combine Enterprise in Japan 20
7. 3. Japanese-developed Zaibatsu 32
8. 4. Combine Dissolution: Severing Ownership Ties 61
9. 5. Combine Dissolution: Severing Personnel Ties 77
10. 6. The Deconcentration Law and the Antimonopoly Law 107
11. 7. The Public Debate: FEC 230 and All That 125
12. 8. The Dissolution of Two Trading Giants; Financial Institutions Untouched 147
13. 9. The United States Reorients Its Economic Policy in Japan 166
14. 10. The Sale of Securities and Other Deconcentration Developments 181
15. Part II.
16. 11. Zaibatsu Yesterday, Business “Groupings” Today — Is There a Difference? 205
17. 12. Other “Headless” Combines and Financial Groupings 257
18. 13. Still More Groupings: Subsidiaries and Kombinato 291
19. 14. Concentration Without Monopoly 316
20. 15. Cartels 357
21. 16. Government in the Economy 390
22. 17. The Postwar Performance of the Economy 408
23. 18. Assessment 439
24. APPENDIX 455
25. Index 519