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Zaikai, Japan’s business world, consists of four major organisations: Keidanren, the Federation of Economic Organisations; Nikkeiren, the Federation of Employers’ Associations; Nissho, the Japan Chamber of Industry and Commerce; and Keizai Doyukai, the Association of Corporate Executives. There is also a large number of regional and sectoral associations within each of these national umbrella organisations.
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Chitoshi Yanaga, Big Business in Japanese Politics (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1968) p. 32.
Yonosuke Tanaka, ‘The World of the Zaikai’, in H. Murakami and J. Hirshmeier (eds), Politics and Economics in Contemporary Japan (Tokyo: Japan Culture Institute, 1979) pp. 64–78, esp. p. 68.
Journal of Japanese Trade and Industry no. 1, 1985, pp. 56–8.
See Keizai Koho Center, KKC Brief no. 59, Aug. 1990.
Keizai Koho Center, KKC Brief no. 55, June 1990.
Eiji Suzuki, in Nikkeiren, Toward Sound Growth: Report of the Committee for the Study of Labour Questions (Tokyo, 1990) p. 1.
Nikkeiren, Japan’s Federation of Employers’ Associations (Tokyo,.1982) p.3.
Nikkeiren, Current Labour Economy in Japan (Tokyo, 1990) p. 10.
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Rothacher, A. (1993). Zaikai — the Organisation of Big Business Interests. In: The Japanese Power Elite. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22993-2_9
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