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Service activities of all kinds are now acknowledged as key players in economic development, societal change, and policy-making worldwide. This exciting new Handbook helps to clarify ongoing conceptual debates about the nature of service-led economies and push back the frontiers of current critical thinking and research agendas on the role and impact of service activities at a variety of scales. The Handbook features original and stimulating essays by international scholars from a range of disciplines. They actively raise awareness of and provoke debates on the opportunities and challenges pos

The development of the service industries is a recent and prominent trend in advanced nations. In the case of Japan too, this trend first became more or less visible during the 1960's. It took the form of a gradual shift of employment in both absolute numbers and in relative percentages to the service sector. However, the influence exerted by this trend differs according to the specific type of business within the service sector. Therefore, in this paper I intend to clarify the influence not merely of major groups, but also of subgroups as well; and at the same time to analyze the characteristics of Japan's service industries through an international comparison.