Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: Marketing and Consumption from c.1905 to 1937 Historical Settings 1. ‘Reeks of Butter and Milk’? Marketing of Western-style Sweets through the Keiretsu Retail Network 2. ‘Miss Shiseido’: Marketing an Image with the Help of Keiretsu 3. Lighting as Enlightenment: Consumer Life with Modern Western Technologies 4. ‘Tomorrow I’ll go to Mitsukoshi’: The Department Store, a Dream or a Threat of Modernity? Part 2: Marketing and Consumption, High Economic Growth to the Present Historical Settings 5. ‘Discount is My Philosophy’: Consumption of Everyday Necessities from Super 6. ‘Sacred Treasures’ for Every Home: Keiretsu vs. Independent Retailers of Electrical Products 7. Convenience Stores: Born in America and Revised in Japan Summing up

About the Author

Kazuo Usui is a Professor at Saitama University, Faculty of Economics, Japan, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh, Business School, UK.

Reviews

"Professor Kazuo Usui has produced an original and insightful study of retail evolution and consumption in Japan. The use of a variety of sources to explain the changing distribution structures is an impressive template for studies of the retail and consumer history in other societies." – John Dawson, University of Edinburgh Business School