Books by Ronald Philip Dore

A study of a village some 100 miles from Tokyo where the author lived first in 1955 and again in the early 1970s. It offers the reader insight into the rural life of Japan. It comments on the effects of the 1993 election - Shinohata in a non-LDP-governed Japan.

The Japanese way of work is notoriously different. But is it Japan or Britain which is the odd man out? This book explores the real differences, not by contrasting Japanese employment relations with a hazy ideal image of the West, but through a point-by-point comparison of two Japanese factories with two British ones making similar products.