TOSHIAKI TACHIBANAKI is Professor of Economics at Kyoto University, Japan. He has also held several visiting and regular positions at INSEE, OECD, Stanford, Essex, London School of Economics and various government research institutions such as EPA, Bank of Japan, MOF, MITI. He is the author of Wage Determination and Distribution in Japan, Public Policies and the Japanese Economy, Wage Differentials: An International Comparison, and Capital and Labour in Japan. - TOMOHIKO NODA is Lecturer in Economics at Momoyama Gakuin University, Osaka, Japan. He is the author of The Economics of the Trade Union (in Japanese) and Who Runs Japanese Business?