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The Japanese economy expanded rapidly after World War II. Most industrialised facilities had been destroyed, large financial companies had been dissolved by the occupying forces, and people were in need of food, money, and homes. Consequently, after 1945, the Japanese economy began its revival from a starting point of nothing, without financial, material, or human resources. The ‘stability of life’ was the basic need of workers.
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The author participated in the International Symposium on Japanese Employment in Paris (at Chateau de la Muette) organised by the Japanese government and the OECD in October 1989. This meeting attracted a large audience of many policymakers, business managers, and researchers. Well-known Japanese experts contributed to the symposium.
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The author worked at the headquarters of the International Labour Organization (ILO) from 1988 to 1991. The catchphrase of ‘from IR to HRM’ was identified at several meetings there.
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This theory was advocated by Oliver and Wilkinson (1988), The Japanization of British Industry, Oxford: Blackwell.
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This explanation is in basic accordance with the presentation of Koichiro lmano at the Japan-Singapore joint symposium on human resource development (HRD), held in Singapore in March 1997.
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Kuriyama, N. (2017). Stereotypes of Japanese Human Resource Management and Labour–Management Relations. In: Japanese Human Resource Management. Palgrave Macmillan Asian Business Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43053-9_1
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