Intro
Preface
Contents
Editors and Contributors
1 Introduction: The Development of KUBS and the History of Business Administration in Japan
1.1 The Creator of the Study of Business Administration
1.2 Declining Presence of the Long-established Faculty
1.3 Establishment of Imperial University and Human Resource Development
1.4 Training of Commercial Personnel
1.5 From Merchant Training to University Education
1.6 Kobe and Research in Business Administration
1.7 The Academic Nature of Business Administration
1.8 Today's Business Administration in Japan

1.9 About This Book
References
Part I History of KUBS
2 History of Modern Business Education in Japan
2.1 Issues in the History of Modern Business Education in Japan
2.2 Commerce Education in the Period When the School System was Stablished
2.2.1 Early Turmoil
2.2.2 Collegiate Commerce Education
2.3 Characteristics of the Higher Education of Commerce Before 1945
2.3.1 Curriculums
2.3.2 Was the Tokyo HCS Model Dominant for the Higher Education of Commerce?
2.3.3 Comparison Between the Tokyo HCS and Kobe HCS

2.4 Establishment of an Academic Society on Commerce and Management Studies
2.5 Business Education after World War II
2.6 Conclusion
2.6.1 Summary of Issues for Discussion
2.6.2 Japanese Business Education in the Twenty-First Century
References
3 A Captain Pioneering the New Academic Field of Business Administration in Japan: Yasutaro Hirai
3.1 Establishment of Kobe Higher Commercial School
3.2 Yasutaro Hirai and the Creation of Business Administration
3.2.1 Career
3.2.2 Study Abroad
3.2.3 The Emergence of Business Administration

3.2.4 The Establishment of the Japan Academy of Business Administration
3.3 System of Hirai's Business Administration
3.3.1 Introduction of German Business Administration and "Quellenbuch der Betriebswirtschaftslehre (Sourcebook of Business Administration)"
3.3.2 Hirai's "Introduction to Business Administration"
3.3.3 Commercial Science and Business Administration
3.3.4 Individual Economy as an Object of Business Administration
3.3.5 The Purpose of the Individual Economy

3.3.6 Hirai's Achievements: Systematization of Courses, A Compilation of the "Dictionary of Business Administration," and Establishment of the Doctor of Business Administration
3.4 Theory and Practice in Business Administration
3.4.1 Pragmatism in Business Administration
3.4.2 Publication of "Industrial Rationalization Catalog" and Training Students
3.5 Succession and Development of Hirai's Business Administration
3.5.1 Ichihara's Theory of Economic Efficiency
3.5.2 Ichihara's Theory of Management Maintenance
3.5.3 Codetermination and Theory of the Management Community