TY - JOUR
AU - CASTELLVI, César
AB - Social Science Japan Journal Vol. 19, No. 2, pp 209–258 2016 Book Reviews César CASTELLVI /École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the University of Tokyo The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism, by Sébastien Lechevalier, ed. London: Routledge, 2014, 204 pp., $135.00 (ISBN 978-0-415-71766-3) doi:10.1093/ssjj/jyw027 Sébastien Lechevalier’s book, The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism, deals with the trans- formations of Japanese capitalism caused by the neoliberal policies implemented by Japanese govern- ments throughout the last three decades. By taking an original position from previous research on the transformation of Japanese capitalism, Sébastien Lechevalier’s book aims to rethink institutional and organizational changes in Japan in the last 30 years. While recent scholarship attributes Japan’s decline to its inability to follow worldwide trends such as growing globalization (Lincoln 2001; Cargill and Sakamoto 2008) and technological innovation (Aoki 2000), Lechevalier argues that Japan’s capitalistic transformations came from Japan itself and began well before the economic crisis of the 1990s during the golden age of Japanese econ- omy. Lechevalier points out the role played by a series of neoliberal reforms implemented between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s with a quiet period during the early 1990s. Although neoliberal reforms had been presented as solutions to 
TI - The Great Transformation of Japanese Capitalism
JF - Social Science Japan Journal
DO - 10.1093/ssjj/jyw027
DA - 2016-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-great-transformation-of-japanese-capitalism-9ioBoJio6y
SP - 209
EP - 211
VL - 19
IS - 2
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