Reprogramming Japan : The High Tech Crisis under Communitarian Capitalism

Acknowledgments

• Peter Katzenstein and anonymous referees for comments.

• Chalmers Johnson, Gary Hamilton, and Fujimoto Takahiro for comments on the first chapter.

• Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Japan Foundation’s Abe Fellowship Program, and the Japan Studies Program at the University of Washington for financial support.

• Yonekura Seiichiro for welcoming me to the Institute of Innovation Research at Hitotsubashi University.

• Officials from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Company, Japan’s top computer, software, semiconductor, and telecommunications makers, and various trade associations and banks for their time and knowledge.

• Aoshima Yaichi, Chuma Kiyofuku, Imamura Yumio, Iyori Hiroshi, Kurosawa Yoshitaka, Morimoto Tetsuo, Murakami Mutsuko, Nakayama Ichiro, Seki Keiichiro, Tanaka Akiyoshi, Tanaka Tsutomu, Terada Noriyuki, Umezawa Shigeyuki, Yokokawa Hiroshi, and Glen Fukushima for helping me better understand the workings of Japanese business and politics

• Don Hellmann and Ken Pyle for support at the University of Washington.

• Hiro Sasada for help gathering data and creating charts.

• Hyun Joo Kang helped with the painstaking task of confirming the footnotes.

• Martha Walsh for helping edit the manuscript before submission.

• Roger Haydon of Cornell University Press for insightful comments and pa