Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 22, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(1):220-222; doi:10.1093/es/khn108
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Peter von Staden. Business–Government Relations in Prewar Japan
Peter von Staden. Business–Government Relations in Prewar Japan. Routledge Series in the Modern History of Asia. London: Routledge, 2008. xiii + 181 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-39903-6, $135.00.
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Business–Government Relations in Prewar Japan by Peter von Staden deals with the Japanese iron and steel industry from the late 1910s through the early 1930s. The period was the turbulent years for the industry, finally leading to the formation of Japan Steel Corporation in 1934. Japan Steel Corporation was a huge production firm, by Japanese standard, whose market share was over 90 percent in pig iron and over 50 percent in finished steel of the Japanese market, so that it became virtually a monopoly firm. How and why was such a semimonopoly iron
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