A Comparison of Specific and Non-specific Characteristics

随着日本经济国际实力的增强，对日本经济和社会发展至今的各种制度和习俗进行重新审视的时候到了。当然，日美之间的“结构性障碍”会议也是链条上的一环。因此，本研究的目的不仅是重新审视日本的“特殊性”，而且要找出其中的“非特殊性”特征，即大学，客观地了解日本经济在世界范围内的状况。因为我们认为，日本传统思维方式的影响是非常普遍和强大的，只以西方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”特征进行具体的重新审视，例如公司之间的交易关系、企业集团、经济团体、劳资关系、土地所有权模式、环境问题和企业会计等。从1987年到的3年时间里，我们共召开了28次普通研究会议，共12次座谈会。我们从座谈会上获得的成果已经在《日本经济社会研究的问题》三本书中按顺序排列。

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.