The history of capitalism in Nippon (Japan)

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Employers plan tough wage stand
JPN, Asahi Shimbun, [11 January 1996]. It will be the fourth straight year that Nikkeiren, the Japan Federation of Employers' Associations, has taken a no-wage-increase stand—although workers did get increases the previous three years.
Salaryman vs. the Yankee Invader: Once-Sure Jobs at Risk as Ailing Japanese Firms Sell to U.S. Ones
By Sandra Sugawara, The International Herald Tribune, Paris, Wednesday 10 February 1999. The plot: a U.S. company acquires a Japanese bank. Despite years of loyal service, the Japanese employees receive an ultimatum: Bring in new business or risk being fired.
Tokai-Asahi alliance
Editorial, Mainichi Shimbun, 8 October 1999. Asahi Bank and Tokai Bank plan for a joint holding company is a sign that the consolidation of the nation's banking sector is accelerating. But creating a mega-bank to take on the world market is not the only way to go. Holding companies [blamed in part for World War II] are likely to become the preferred method for consolidation in the financial sector.
Overwork suicide ruling
Editorial, Mainichi Shimbun, 25 March 2000. Ten years ago, the nation's largest advertising agency, Dentsu Inc., formulated 10 ruthless rules, one of which urges workers to stick with a project until their objective has been reached, even if they must put their lives on the line. This was a factor in the suicide of one its employees.
Microsoft workers dodge stock taxes
Mainichi Shimbun, Wednesday 23 August 2000. About 150 executives and employees of Microsoft failed to report about 7 billion yen in income they earned for the three years to 1999 via stock options.
Restructuring transfers many workers to jobs from hell
By Shinichi Yanagida, Mainichi Shimbun, 5 June 2001. Restructuring efforts aimed at pushing workers to quit by dumping them into a hostile or useless work environment is not the sole product of major video-game manufacturer Sega Enterprises. Many businesses are still trying to cut down staff numbers by assigning them jobs with no meaning.
Three arrested over union affiliate scam
The Japan Times, 11 October 2001. Special investigators, suspecting money was paid to gangsters who were to stop parties close to UBC from making public accounting irregularities at the firm, raided the Tokyo office of UBC, a company with ties to the All Japan Prefectural and Municipal Workers' Union (Jichiro).