AN OVERVIEW OF JAPANESE LABOR-EMPLOYER RELATIONS FROM THE 1870S TO THE 1990S

The Japanese style of labor-management relations first established itself in the 1920's. The present-day structure of this relationship, in other words ''contemporary Japanese labor-management relations'', began in the 1960's and became an increasingly larger social manifestation after the 1973 Oil Shock. The Heisei Recession of the 1990's has brought about a wage-based dissolution and reorganization of this modern labor-management system.