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

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