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1. Introduction; 2. Small firms and Japan's small firm 'problem'; 3.Industrial districts; 4. Small firms and industrial districts: OtaWard; 5. Interfirm relations 1: 'vertical'; 6. Interfirm relations 2:'horizontal'; 7. Founders, entrepreneurship and innovation; 8.Employment, skills and technology; 9. Policy and politics; 10. Acomparative view: small factories in Birmingham; 11. Sunrise or sunsetfor Japan's small firms?; Index.