CONTRIBUTORS

Albert M. Craig is Professor of History at Harvard University where he is also the Associate Director of the Japan Institute and the Chairman of the Committee on the Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages. He is the author of Choshu in the Meiji Restoration , co-author with John K. Fairbank and Edwin O. Reischauer of East Asia: Tradition and Transformation , and co-editor with Donald Shively of Personality in Japanese History .

Gerald L. Curtis is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University. He is the author of Election Campaigning Japanese Style and editor of Japanese-American Relations in the Seventies .

John Creighton Campbell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and author of the forthcoming volume, Contemporary Japanese Budget Politics . An earlier version of his article in this volume received the first John M. H. Lindbeck Prize of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

George A. De Vos is a psychologist and an anthropologist who is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His publications include Socialization for Achievement and, with Hiroshi Wagatsuma, Japan's Invisible Race and the forthcoming two-volume publication Heritage of Endurance .

Peter F. Drucker is Clarke Professor of Social Science at Claremont Graduate School, California, and Distinguished University Lecturer at the Graduate Business School, New York University. He is the author of The Age of Discontinuity and other works on international business. His latest publication is Management: Tasks; Responsibilities; Practices .

Ivan P. Hall currently resides in Japan where he is a consultant for the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Harvard Council on East Asian Studies. His publications include the biography Mori Arinori .

Kazuo Noda is Professor at Rikkyo University and Director of the Japan Research Institute in Tokyo. He is the author of Nihon no juyaku^[*] and other works on Japanese business.

Yoshihisa Ojimi is a former administrative vice-minister of the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry.

Herbert Passin is affiliated with the East Asian Institute and Chairman of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. His publications include Society and Education in Japan, The United States and Japan (ed.) In Search of Identity (with John W. Bennett).

Hugh Patrick is Professor of Far Eastern Economics and Chairman of the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University. His publications include Monetary Policy and Central Banking in Contemporary Japan .

Thomas P. Rohlen is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cowell College, the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of For Harmony and Strength: Japanese White Collar Organization in Anthropological Perspective .

Taishiro Shirai , Professor of Industrial Relations in the Faculty of Business Administration, Hosei University, is also a public member of the Central Labor Relations Commission in Japan. His publications include Rodo^[*] kumiai no zaisei, Rodo kumiai kanbu ron , and Kigyo betsu kumiai .

Nathaniel B. Thayer is Associate Professor and Director of Asian Studies at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of How the Conservatives Rule Japan .

Ezra F. Vogel is Director of the East Asian Research Center and Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. His publications include Japan's New Middle Class .

M. Y. Yoshino , currently on leave from the University of California, Los Angeles, is Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University. His publications include Japan's Managerial System: Tradition and Innovation, The Japanese Marketing System: Adaptation and Innovation , and the forthcoming volume Multinational Spread of Japanese Enterprises: Strategy and Structure .