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Arts Graduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
JST4910
Advanced studies in Australia-Japan economic relations
Proposed to be offered next in 1997
Takamichi Mito
12 points + 2 hours per week + Clayton + Prerequisites: A Japanese studies
sequence, politics, economics, finance or management or the permission of the
instructor
Synopsis This subject reviews the economic relationship between Japan
and Australia. It examines major issues in Australian exports and imports,
marketing and distribution, Japanese investment in Australia, the transfer of
Japanese management and technology into Australia, Japanese tourism and the
implications of Australia-Japan economic relations for Pacific economic
cooperation.
Students who have not studied this subject at the undergraduate level are
required to attend two additional hours of undergraduate lectures per week.
Assessment Written (4500 words): 50% + Test (3 hours): 40% + Seminar
participation and assignments (1500 words): 10%
Preliminary reading
- Allen G C The Japanese economy St Martins, 1981
- Ito T The Japanese economy MIT Press, 1992
- Mito T Contending perspectives on the Japanese `Economic miracle'
(Working Papers in Japanese Studies No. 2) Japanese Studies Centre, Monash U,
1992
Recommended texts
- Drysdale P International economic pluralism Allen and Unwin, 1988
- Drysdale P and others The Australia-Japan relationship: Towards 2000
Australia-Japan Research Centre, ANU, 1989
- Edgington Japanese business downunder: Pattern of Japanese investment in
Australia Routledge, 1989
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