Abstract
The aim of this paper is to examine the fluidity of youth employment and the tertiary industrialization that is part of international trade and the change in Japan's industrial policy. This process, known as “post-industrialization, ” occurred in every developed country; however, Japan contained the following unique characteristics : (a) a cruel division, known as “company-centricism, ” existed between employees inside/outside the companies; (b) the two Oil Crises had comparatively weak consequences in Japan because of the strong cooperation between capital and labor, so that the dominant position of existing large corporations did not collapse, as in the case of the United States and UK; (c) lower-class labor, which inevitably increases during the “post-industrialization” process, was supplied by the nation itself and not by immigrants. At that time, the increase in the fluidity of youth employment was explained by policymakers as a positive contribution to the national economy, although the same phenomenon is viewed as a symptom of economic crisis today.
