cial treatment that the workers receive is housing; some of thecompanies namely Honda have a special housing unite for their workers and theirfamilies and a company cemetery for all the workers and their families. Becauseof this the employees work habits are much more productive and a larger profitcan be turned and they can get a jump on the competition.In centralized economies very few luxuries are returned to the peopleand in market economies most of them are, in Japan there are to kinds of peoplefarmers and city dwellers, the farmers get no luxuries and live in poorconditions while the city dwellers on the other hand get just about all theluxuries like mass transit, hospitals and if you have a job financial security.The government keeps whatever is necessary and whatever the people will buy andwill export the rest. In the farmlands there is a strong sense of a commandsystem and in the city there is capitalistic economy. Farming is one of thelarger employers in Japan it employs 9% of the work force but it only accountsfor 3% of the GDP. There are few government owned companies the only ones theyown are some power plants, railways and some airlines as well as the commutingservices and civil services. The government employs about 1 in 10 people inJapan mostly civil services. There are some strict regulations set forth by thegovernment to insure that the countries stores are filled with Japanese goodsrather than foreign goods and they include trade restrictions such as tariffs,bands and quotas.After reviewing all this evidence the Japanese economy is leaningheavily towards a market economy but does have some socialist government viewsand laws but the market out weighs the command.Another major part of the Japanese economy is international trade .For years after the end of the second world war, the Japanese suffered from an inferiority complex. This was the result of the American aid to Japan which helped to rebuild their country. Soon th...
