Together with the collapse of the "Bubble" economy, the 1990s saw the occurrence of numerous scandals related to business ethics that shook Japanese society. This period has been called the "lost two decades". The concept of business ethics has fulfilled an important responsibility from a management strategy perspective as it has grown to encompass the perspectives of compliance, corporate governance, and CSR. In addition, the environments in which corporations operate have undergone striking changes, and these issues have been addressed through legal amendments and improvements to systems in order to enable safe and secure economic activities in Japanese society. In this paper, I will attempt to review the progress of business ethics in Japan over 20 years together with offering opinions on the ideal form for business ethics in the future in order to develop an ethical economic society through the demonstration of self-governance functions by corporations.
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