Gendai Osaka keizaishi: Daitoshi sangyo shyseki no kiseki (Economic History of Contemporary Osaka: The Trajectory of Industrial Clusters in Metropolitan Area)
Gendai Osaka keizaishi: Daitoshi sangyo shyseki no kiseki (Economic History of Contemporary Osaka: The Trajectory of Industrial Clusters in Metropolitan Area)
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Gendai Osaka keizaishi: Daitoshi sangyo shyseki no kiseki(当代大阪经济史:首都圈产业集群的轨迹)
DOI:
10.1093/ssjj/jyab015
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
SUNAHARA Yosuke
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海野大地;城下賢一;田中将太;木多悠介;落合優翼;中村凌太郎;岡﨑晴輝;SUNAHARA Yosuke
This book is a comprehensive history of the Osaka economy, with a focus on the post-World War II period. As the author himself argues, it is not only an economic history of the Osaka area but also a history of a metropolis that struggled to change its industrial structure, with an emphasis on the micro perspective of individual companies. In contrast to the shining counterpart of Tokyo, Osaka, which had built up a cluster of light industry centred on textiles and attracted a large population, stagnated without developing new industries. It seems that this situation is the other side of the coin of Osaka’s political history which, as this reviewer has discussed in an earlier work, has been hampered by political constraints (Sunahara 2012).The first part of the book details how companies in Osaka responded to the military demand in World War II and how they promoted postwar reconstruction. During the war, it was difficult for individual firms to make autonomous management decisions, and even those companies originally engaged in light industry were forced to shift their production to munitions. In Tokyo and Aichi, the conversion to munitions industry led to the development of heavy industry, but Osaka, with its many small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), had difficulty adapting to this situation. The industrial structure of SMEs in Osaka had not changed significantly during postwar reconstruction. Several committees established by the Osaka prefectural and city governments provided technical and financial support to SMEs and tried to expand production while promoting competition. Nevertheless, Osaka’s industrial structure did not change sufficiently until the period of high economic growth. Although there was an increase in demand due to the Korean War, the demand for weapons production in Japan was limited. After the Korean War, the textile industry, which had supported Osaka’s prewar prosperity, was on the verge of a crisis due to a decline in exports and excessive competition. However, only a few companies could transform themselves into investmentdriven enterprises in the form of general trading companies. The formation of the Sakai-Senboku waterfront industrial zone was an attempt to change the industrial structure, which had been centred on the light industry. Away from Osaka City, which had been the centre of development up to that point, an industrial zone was established in the Sakai seaside area at the initiative of Osaka Prefecture. Although the petrochemical and steel industries were formed in the area, the synergy between such heavy industries and the SMEs that initially existed in Osaka was quite limited. During the period of high economic growth, an industrial accumulation of SMEs linked to the precision instrument industry developed in Osaka. It is understood that a flexible