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I have just published a new English book,
"Historical Development of Japanese Companies: Corporate Governance and Foreign Investment Expanded and Revised Second Edition"

I hope you will refer to the above title in Amazon.com. (2009.6.27)

Contents

Preface to the Expanded and Revised Second Edition
List of Tables and Figures

Introduction to the Expanded and Revised Second Edition
1 Objective of the Expanded and Revised Second Edition
2 The Global Financial Crisis and Japanese Companies
3 Japanese Corporate Governance: Past and Present
4 Japanese Foreign Investment: Past and Present
5 Japan and Japanese Companies at a Crossroads

Chapter 1 Market-centered Corporate Governance in Prewar Period
Introduction
1 Representative Japanese Companies in the Interwar Period
2 Representative Japanese Banks in the Interwar Period
3 Financial Information on Leading Companies and Banks
4 Securities Investment by Banks and Holding Companies
5 Survey on the Financial and Securities Markets in Prewar Japan
6 Insurance Companies as Institutional Investors
7 Summary of Japanese Corporate Governance in the Prewar Period
Conclusion

Chapter 2 Postwar Corporate Governance Reform and Institutional Investor
Introduction
1 Restoration of Market-centered Corporate Governance in Japan in the United States
2 Corporate Governance Reform and Shareholder Activism

Chapter 3 American Corporate Governance in the Interwar Period
Introduction
1 Dispersion of Stockholding in the United States
2 Companies and Financial Institutions
3 A Comparison of American and Japanese Corporate Governance in the Interwar Period
Conclusion

Chapter 4 Prewar Overseas Business of Japanese Companies
Introduction
1 Survey on Japanese Overseas Companies in the Prewar Period
2 Three Representative Infrastructure Industries and their Companies
3 The General Features of the Overseas Companies
Conclusion . to the Period of Mutual FDI

Chapter 5 Current FDI Characterized by Cross-border M&A
Introduction
1 The Current FDI Characterized by Cross-border M&A
2 Global Corporations by Industry and Cross-border M&A
3 Historical Development of FDI
Conclusion

Chapter 6 East Asian Corporate Governance and East Asian Community: From Economic System Competition to Corporate System Competition
Introduction
1 Securities Markets in East Asia
2 Chinese Corporate Governance
3 Corporate Governance in Russia, Singapore, Korea and Taiwan
4 East Asian Corporate Governance and East Asian Community

Postscript
Bibliography
Index



The book in the left side is the first edition of "Historical Development of Japanese Companies: Corporate Governance and Foreign Investment."
You will be able to refer to it in
Amazon.com,too.

Contents

Preface
List of Tables and Figures

Introduction
1 The Purpose of This Book
2 Japanese Corporate Governance
3 Japanese Foreign Investment
4 Japan and Japanese Company on Crossroads

Chapter 1 Market-centered Corporate Governance in Prewar Period
Introduction
1 Representative Japanese Companies in the Interwar Period
2 Representative Japanese Banks in the Interwar Period
3 Financial Information on Leading Companies and Banks
4 Securities Investment by Banks and Holding Companies
5 Survey on the Financial and Securities Markets in Prewar Japan
6 Insurance Companies as Institutional Investors
7 Summary of Japanese Corporate Governance in the Prewar Period
Conclusion

Chapter 2 Postwar Corporate Governance Reform and Institutional Investor
Introduction
1 Restoration of Market-centered Corporate Governance in Japan
2 Corporate Governance Reform and Shareholder Activism.

Chapter 3 Prewar Overseas Business of Japanese Companies
Introduction
1 Survey on Japanese Overseas Companies in the Prewar Period
2 Three Representative Infrastructure Industries and their Companies
3 The General Features of the Overseas Companies
Conclusion – to the Period of Mutual FDI

Chapter 4 Current FDI Characterized by Cross-border M&A
Introduction
1 The Current FDI Characterized by Cross-border M&A
2 Global Corporations by Industry and Cross-border M&A
3 Historical Development of FDI
Conclusion

Postscript
Bibliography
Index
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