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On The Softening Of Japanese Industrial Structure

Posted on:2009-08-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D K GengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2189360245954224Subject:World economy
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The industrial structure soften is one of the manifestation of economy soften, and also a trend of current world industrial structure development and change. Its social background is post-industrial society which mainly featrues knowledge and technology. Its economic basis is knowledge economy that characterized by modern scientific technology as its core and based on the production, storage, usage and consumption of knowledge and information.The author believes that the industrial structure soften means, in the era of knowledge-based economy, when physical labor, visible product and physical resources contribute less and less during the process of social production and reproduction, while the contribution of mental labor, scientific technology and knowledge goes up, which leads to the rising proportion of technical, knowledge related department (the soft department) in all industries, as well as the increasing percentage of tertiary industry(soft industry) in national economy.Japanese economy took the second place in capitalism world in 1968.The industrial structure in Japan has been showing an increasing softening tendency since then in the background of knowledge economy.There are two main parts in process of industral structure softening in Japan:,on one hand, soft elements are increasing while hard elements decreasing in the agricultural production, and the processing and the high—tech factors are gradually take a dominant place in the manufacturing industry and service industry respectively;on the other hand, the tendency of information and service in industrial structure is becoming more and more obviouse. There are not only common reasons for such changes in Japan such as market demand, science and technology, industrial policy, international environment,but also their own reasons. Industral structure softening has promoted the advancing of industrial structure, the quality of economical growth and its competitive in international economy, while it also intensified the structural unemployment in Japan.
Keywords/Search Tags:Japan, Industrial Structure, Softening, Information, Service
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