著者

野口 幸洋

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.10, pp.101-109, 2003-03-31 (Released:2017-08-01)

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I feel that today's social environment in Japan is very similar to that of the ending period of Tokugawa Government. In both cases, the most serious problem is the leader's lack of confidence to make effective policies and decisive actions to deal with the rapidly changing circumstances. "Perry's Black Ships" in 1853 and "Anglo-Saxon Standard" at present time are good examples which is difficult for the leaders how to handle. Meiji Restoration was initiated by the formal return of political authority to Emperor by the last Shogun in 1868, but in 1871, Meiji Government consolidated "Domains (Hans)" into more rationally structured "Prefectures (Kens)" (Haihan Chiken) which gave the most profound impact on society. The magnitude of disaster would have been great as all the big corporations today dissolve over-nightly and all the emplyees lose job automatically. The impact of "Haihan Chiken" was enormous because the biggest emplyers (Hans) were abolished and Samurais who worked for "Hans" were dismissed. Meiji Government had to save jobless Samurais and help "Hans" for their financial rescheduling. For that purpose, Meiji Government issued Government Bond equal to 1.2 times of GDP (yen 200 million at that time) and gave 80% of them to Samurai class at free of charge as the expences for survival and the rest was used for financial rescheduling of "Domains (Hans)". The reforms were proceeded by the initiative of young key restoration leaders from Satsuma,Choshu,Tosa & Saga. Japan's economy has no sign of recovery for very long time but we must get rid of such stagnation as soon as possible. I trurt now is the time to do something which gives strong & positive impact on Japanese economy. Through the experience of Meiji Government at the time of "Haihan Chiken", I discovered a great hint in the skillful "Utilization of Government Bond". I proposed a very radical but very interesting economic strategy in this report which will be particularly effective at emergency. I named it "Special National Bonus Strategy." In my mind, the sub-title of this report is "Learning from the Cultural Heritage of Meiji".

著者

野口 幸洋

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.6, pp.169-177, 1999-03-31 (Released:2017-07-28)

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This report is originally intended to search for the person who was the greatest promotor of economic development of Meiji Era in Japan. After careful study,I came to the conclusion that the team of Kaoru Inoue & Eiichi Shibusawa made the most important contribution to the development of Japanese industries in Meiji Era. Kaoru Inoue was only one influential polititian & high government officer who firmly believed that the economy was the decisive factor of the power of a nation while other leaders were entirely involved in politics & war. Therefore, it was quite natural that capable & ambitious business people got together around Inoue, in some case asking for government support or in some case simply for his advices. Eiichi Shibusawa attended Paris EXPO in 1867 as the accountant of Japanese delegation team. He discovered there the system of "Public Limited Liability Company" which was very effective to support big project financially by amalgamating small capital into big one. He advocated this system throughout Japan to help develop big projects. It is said that the number of companies he related was more than 500. More important is "Shibusawa Business Philosophy" which had been until recently the Japanese standard of business way & ethics based on Confucius Philosophy. The characteristics of his Philosophy is that the development of business & ethics of business must be coexistent through the cooperation of business community. They once worked together as Ministry of Finance officers, Inoue as Secretary General,Shibusawa as manager of a department. These two unique characters were exquisitely mixed and created a great leadership in the development of industries in MeijiEra.

著者

野口 幸洋

出版者

日本経営倫理学会

雑誌

日本経営倫理学会誌 (ISSN:13436627)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, pp.73-82, 1996-03-31 (Released:2017-07-28)

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As you may know, Tokushichi Nomura (1878-1945) was the founder of Nomura Securities while Genichi Toyama (1890-1972) was the originator of Nikko Securities. This report is firstly intended to trace back the Activities and Philosophies of these two great pioneers of Japanese Securities Industry in relation to the development of Japanese economy and to examine how their business philosophies affected their respective corporation's culture and business strategy. And, in the final part of this report, the problems covering the Japanese securities industry today and the most essential part of the business conducts will be discussed from Business Ethics viewpoint.