Yet Another Route for Growth in Japan's Automobile Industry The Formation and Development of the Three-Wheeler Sector

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doi:10.5029/jrbh1984.20.9

Yet Another Route for Growth in Japan's Automobile Industry

The Formation and Development of the Three-Wheeler Sector

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2004 Volume 20 Pages 9-31

DOI https://doi.org/10.5029/jrbh1984.20.9

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Published: March 15, 2004 Received: - Available on J-STAGE: June 28, 2010 Accepted: - Advance online publication: - Revised: -
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Date of correction: June 28, 2010 Reason for correction: - Correction: CITATION Details: Right : 1 Phyllis A.Genther,A History of Japan's Government-Business Relationship:The Passenger Car Industry(Ann Arbor:Center for Japanese Studies,The University of Michigan,1990);Michael A. Cusumano,The Japanese Automobile Industry:Technology and Management at Nissan and Toyota (Cambridge,Mass.,and London:Harvard University Press,1985).
2 Masaru Udagawa,"The Prewar Japanese Automobile Industry and American Manufacturers,"Japanese Yearbook on Business History2(1985);Masachika Shinomiya,Nihon no jidosha sangya-kigyosha katsudo to kyosoryoku1918-70[Japan's automobile industry:Entrepreneurship and competitiveness1918-1970] (Tokyo:Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha,1998);Yoshio Oba,Nihon jidosha kogyo no seiritsu to jidosha seizo jigyoho no kenkyu[A study of the establishment of the Japanese automobile manufacturing industry and the Automobile Manufacturing Law](Tokyo:Shinzansha,2001).
4 John B.Rae,The American Automobile(Chicago:University of Chicago Press,1965).
5 Ken Hill,Three-Wheelers(Buckinghamshire:Shire Publications Ltd,1986).
6 Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association(JAMA),comp.,Jidosha[Draft history of the automobile manufacturing industry],vols.1-3(Tokyo:Japan
7 James M.Laux,The European Automobile Industry(New York:Twayne Publishers,1992).
8 This company was the forerunner of Briggs and Stratton Company,which presently manufactures motors for use in agricultural machinery such as grass cutters(see Jeffrey L.Rodengen,The Legend of Briggs ξ Stratton[Fort Lauderdale,Flor.:Write Stuff Syndicate Inc.,1995]).For an illustration of a Smith Motor Wheel and a discussion of its place in the beginnings of the Toyota Motor Co.,see Kazuo Wada and Tsunehiko Yui,Courage and Change:The Life of Kiichiro Toyoda(Toyota City:Toyota Motor Corporation,2002),pp.208-11.
9 Kikai Gakkai shi[Journal of the Society of Mechanical Engineers]34,no.166(1931),pp.227-28.
11 Daihatsu Motor Co.,comp.,Gojunen shi[Fifty-year history](Osaka:Daihatsu Motor Co.,1957),pp.34-35.
12 Committee for Compiling a History of Small Car Development,eds.,Kogata jidosha hattatsu shi[The history of the development of small cars],vol.1(Tokyo:Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association,1968),p.68.
13 "Jido sanrinsha to sono kikan ni tsuite"[On self-propelled three-wheel vehicles and their engines],Mota[Motor],November1930,p.36.
16 Kyokuto mota[Far Eastern Motors],January1935,p.79.
18 Daihatsu Motor Co.,Gojunen shi[Fifty-year history](Osaka:Daihatsu Motor Co.,1957);Daihatsu Motor Co.,Rokujunen shi[Sixty-year history](Osaka:Daihatsu Motor Co.,1967).
19 Toyo Kogyo,Gojunen shi-enkaku hen[Fifty-year history:The origin and development of the company](Hiroshima:Toyo Kogyo,1970).
20 Some of the topics referred to in this paragraph can be fleshed out by Wada and Yui(cited in note8above),pp.237,251,and262.
22 Nihon Kogata Jidosha Kogyokai[Japan Small Automobile Manufacturers Association],Kogata joho[Small vehicle news],several issues,esp.those for the years1952-53and1957-58.
23 Mota fan[The motor fan],October1956,p.82.
24 Ibid.,November1957,p.92.
25 Light three-wheelers were produced until1971,and small three-wheelers were produced until1974.Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association,Nihon jidosha sangyo shi[The history of Japan's automobile industry](Tokyo:Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association,1988),p.389.

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