Empirical research on changes of the industrial structure, the region structure and the life-structure

我们对产业结构、区域结构和生活结构进行了实地调研，用了两年的时间收集整理了大量的主题资料。通过我们的研究，我们可以清楚地看到，在20世纪80年代，即使在以汽车工业和机械工业为主要产业的东海地区，产业结构也发生了从重工业向知识密集型产业的转变。这些变化与从“福特主义”向灵活生产系统的转变有关。日本的生产系统现在经常被认为是灵活生产系统的典范。但我们的研究清楚地表明，这是“新福特主义”，而不是“后福特主义”。

We have done field researches on the industrial structure, the regional structure and the life-structure, and have gathered and sorted out many material on our theme for two years.Through our research, we can make clear that in 1980s changes of the industrial structure were occurred from the heavy industries to the knowledge intensive industry even in Tokai area where main industries were the automobile industry and the machine industry.These changes are connected with a shift to the flexible production system from 'Fordism'. Japanese production system are now often thought as a model of the flexible production system. But our research showed clearly that it is 'Neo-Fordism', not 'Post-Fordism'.