Title Assembled in Japan : electrical goods and the making of the Japanese consumer / Simon Partner.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [1999]
	©1999

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 303 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index.
Summary	This volume investigates the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. It discovers that behind the meteoric rise of electrical goods companies was neither the iron hand of Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry nor a government-sponsored export-led growth policy.
Contents	Electrifying Japan: techno-nationalism and the rise of the mass society -- Reenvisioning Japan -- The vision of America: bringing television to Japan -- The technologies of desire -- Creating the "bright life" -- Nimble fingers: the story of the transistor radio.
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Subject	Electronic industries -- Japan.
	Electronic industries.
	Japan.
	Consumers -- Japan.
	Consumers.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Partner, Simon. Assembled in Japan. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1999 0520217926 (DLC) 98037375 (OCoLC)39811702
ISBN	9780520923171 (electronic book)
	0520923170 (electronic book)
	0585368139 (electronic book)
	9780585368139 (electronic book)
	9780520217928
	0520217926
	0520217926 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
	0520219392 (paperback ; alkaline paper)