I reported on the future aspects of the Japanese steel industry in the general meeting of the Society for Industrial Studies, Japan. It was based on the structure and function of the steel industry system peculiar to Japan.
I also analyzed the drastic change of the Japanese steel industry today, and the direction of its realignment in the near future.
I described the details in my book titled ‘The Japanese Steel System; the Mechanism of crisis Management and the Perspective toward Reform’, published by Dobunkan Publishing Company in the spring of 1996. This book is a completion of my studies on the Japanese steel industry. In this thesis I will avoid overlapping the content of that work.
In my previous book I could not include the articles on the materials, technology and skills concerning the Japanese steel industry. These are to be organized individually, based on the concept of the steel production system and will be published in the form of other books.
By the way, I could glimpse the steel production system in the framework of the Japanese steel system. But there's much left to be examined theoretically.
So I will give carefull consideration to the steel production system that functions as a core in each company. Firstly I must make clear the concept of the production system before examining the Japanese production system. Furthermore I will take a close look at the steel production system as the sub-system of the Japanese steel system and make a re-alignment of its whole concept.
But I was unable to analyze the structure and function of the steel production system, still less refer to its historical position and the problem confronting it. Someday I'm sure to deepen my theory on them and deal with it in another book.
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