CHRONOLOGY
1905 |
Railway concession in Manchuria leads to trade penetration weakly independent Korea occupied piecemeal |
1798 |
Toshiaki Honda publishes 'Secret Proposals on Political Economy' Japan should copy the English Trade Model |
1635 |
Foreign trade restricted to Nagasaki, country closed sakoku daimyo made subject to control by 'alternate residence' |
GLOSSARY
Fair Trade Commission |
FTC kosei torihiki iinkai |
occasionally slaps wrists for yet another price fixing performance cf dango |
FTC Fair Trade Commission |
competition regulator kosei torihiki iinkai |
a Cabinet Office External Agency for Anti Monopoly Act enforcement purposes |
gaitameho |
Foreign Trade and Forex Act |
maintaining information control for tax policy and forex emergency purposes |
gyokaishi |
trade journal |
banking, pharmaceuticals, securities etc industry newspaper mildly derogatory |
JETRO |
Japan External Trade Organisation |
overseas cover for NTA once used to study private banking in Zurich/New York |
keizaisangyosho keisansho |
Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry METI |
MITI and EPA loss of power via Hashimoto Reform etc a warning to MoF |
kosei torihiki iinkai |
Fair Trade Commission |
rote regulation and slaps wrists for the common run of price fixing cf dango |
METI keisansho |
Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry |
MITI/METI switch meant a major loss of power offering a strong warning to MoF |
norenwake |
sharing trade name |
Edo Period paying off apprentices with trade name a distant form of MBOs |
casualisation |
a generalised globalisation impact on employment |
absolute advantage of trade hollowing out employment cf globalisation, pato |
gyosha |
those in the particular business |
as gyoshakan torihiki dealing between those in the trade mildly derogatory |
Hakodate |
port city of South Hokkaido |
major entrepot for the old Russia trade extremely attractive townscape |
JAS |
Japan Agricultural Standard |
a well used pattern of non tariff trade barriers for barrier sake cf JIS |
JIS |
Japan Industrial Standard |
well used pattern of non tariff trade barriers for barrier's sake cf JAS, PDC |
JSDA |
Japan Securities Dealers Association |
securities houses trade association launched the OTC market 1963 cf JASDAQ |
Maekawa Report |
commissioned by the Nakasone Cabinet |
to plot a course away from the mid 1980s trade friction in a structured fashion |
Mercantilism |
immediately post feudal economics |
objective is a surplus in external trade for the Prince as wealth vs Cameralism |
nichibenren |
Japan Federation of Bar Associations |
all Japan trade association with a progressive orientation founded in 1948 |
oyobi |
and in legalese |
as gaikoku kawase oyobi gaikoku boekiho Foreign Exchange and Trade Act |
sogo |
mutuality reciprocity |
as sogo ni tasukeau to help each other, sogo boeki mutual trade |