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122 been ignored by theorists-provides the substantive base for a conceptual model of the Japanese political economy. The basic contours of our argument run as follows. We contend that the social organization of production in Japan has reached a level of development that is postfordist, and we refer to this new and unique social organization of production as &dquo; postfordist Japan. &dquo; Postfordist production replaces the task fragmentation, functional specialization, mechanization, and assembly-line principles of fordism with a social organization of production based on work teams, job rotation, learning by doing, flexible production, and integrated production complexes. These developments were in large measure tied to the intense industrial unrest, popular struggle, and class conflict of the immediate postwar period in Japan. The social organization of Japanese production is thus premised on the unique …