THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUBCONTRACTING SYSTEM IN JAPAN

本研究旨在以历史资料和文献为基础，分析日本分包制度的发展。然而，研究者认为了解分包制度的现状是很重要的。因此，他走访了几家公司，主要是汽车零部件制造商，并采访了几位官员，包括采购部部长等。他还认为，研究应该集中在汽车行业，而不是一般的制造业，因为分包的做法在不同的行业有很大的不同。1937年，他创建了爱知县和名古屋市制造企业的计算机数据库。研究者决定首先将研究结果总结为“日本供应商关系的形成”。

This research aims to analyze the development of subcontracting system in Japan based on historical materials and documents. The investigator, however, believe that it be important to understand the current situation of subcontracting system. So, he visited several firms, mainly automobile parts makers, and interviewed several officers, including the chief of the purchasing department and so on.He also thought the research should focus on the automobile industry, rather than on the manufacturing industries in general, because the practice of subcontracting be widely varied from a industry to another industry. Then he created the computer-based database of manufacturing firms in Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya City in 1937.The investigator decided to summarize the result of research as 'The formation of the suppliers' relationship in Japan' at first.