Contents:
1. Introduction
2. General features of the labour and capital markets, and Japanese business
3. An analysis of labour mobility
4. The effect of individual characteristics and of parametric and non-parametric approaches on job duration
5. Theory of wage determination and its empirical test
6. Shareholding and lending activity of financial institutions
7. Dispatched directors: an aspect of the Japanese Main Bank system
8. Intercorporate shareholding and volatility in stock prices
9. Capital adequacy constraint for banks and the real economy: a general equilibrium evaluation under intercorporate shareholding
10. Stability of the Japanese company system
11. Concluding remarks