A Comparison of Specific and Non-specific Characteristics

随着日本经济国际实力的增强，日本经济和社会迄今所形成的各种制度和习俗，更应重新审视。当然，日美“结构性障碍”会议也是其中的一环。因此，本研究的目的不仅在于重新审视日本的“特殊性”，而且还在于找出其中的“非特殊性”，即大学性，客观地弄清日本经济在世界经济中的地位。只根据西方的标准来评价日本的制度和习俗。因此，在本研究中，我们试图对日本经济中的“特定”和“非特定”特征，如企业间的交易关系、企业集团、经连会、劳资关系、土地所有权模式、环境问题、公司会计等，进行具体的重新审视。从1987年到1989年的三年中，我们共召开了28次一般性的研究会，12次专题讨论会。这些研讨会的成果已被整理成《日本经济社会研究的问题》三书。

With the growth of international power of Japanese economy, it is high time now that the various institutions and customs that Japanese economy and society had mad up to this day have to be reexamine all the more. Of course, "the structural impediment" conference between Japan and U.S.A. is also a link in the chain. Therefore the aim of this research is not only to reexamine what is called Japanese "specific", but also to find out "non-specific" characteristics among them, that is university, and to make clear objectively the situation of Japanese economy among the world one.Because, we consider that influence of the traditional way of thinking in Japan has been very popular and powerful, that evaluates Japanese institutions and customs just on the basis of the western criteria. As the result, we have now too many Japanese "specific" institutions and customs around us.Therefore, in this research we tried to reexamine in the concrete on "specific" and "non-specific" characteristics in Japanese economy, for example, the transaction-relationships among firms, the corporate groups, the Keiretsu, the labormanagement relations, the patterns of landownership, the environment problems, and the corporate-accountings, so on.During these 3 years from 1987 to 1989, we had the 28 ordinary research meetings, and the 12 symposiums altogether. The fruits we got from the symposiums are already arranged in order in the 3 books titled "The Problems of Study on the Japanese Economy and Society.