Assembled in Japan : electrical goods and the making of the Japanese consumer /

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This volume investigates the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. It discovers that behind the meteoric rise of electrical goods companies was neither the iron hand of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry nor a government-sponsored export-led growth policy.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Partner, Simon, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999.
Subjects:
Electronic industries > Japan.
Consumers > Japan.
Industries électroniques > Japon.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Service.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
Consumers
Electronic industries
Japan
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Electrifying Japan: techno-nationalism and the rise of the mass society
  • Reenvisioning Japan
  • The vision of America: bringing television to Japan
  • The technologies of desire
  • Creating the "bright life"
  • Nimble fingers: the story of the transistor radio.

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