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Date of correction: June 28, 2010Reason for correction: -Correction: CITATIONDetails: Right : 1 See Juro Hashimoto,Nihon keizai ron-21seiki shisutemu to Nihon keizai[On the Japanese economy:Twenty-first century systems and the Japanese economy](Kyoto:Minerva Shobo,1991),p.25,and Seiichira Yonekura,“Kyodo genso to shite no Nihongata shisutemu no shutsugen to shuen”[The emergence and demise of the Japanesestyle system as an illusion of cooperation],in Nihon keiei shi5:Kodo seicho o koete[Japanese business history5:Going beyond high growth],ed.Hidemasa Morikawa and Seiichiro Yonekura(Tokyo:Iwanami Shoten,1995),p.340. 2 The Shako Chukin Bank Research Division,comp.,Shitauke chusho kigyo no shinkyokumen[A new situation in small and medium-sized subcontractor enterprises](Tokyo:Shoko Chukin Bank,1983),pp.44-47. 3 Reports of these incidents can be found in the issues of Nihon Keizai Shinbun and Asahi Shinbun published on the days following their occurrence.In regard to the Aisin incident a 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