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Author : Satoshi Kamata
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Japan in the Passing Lane written by Satoshi Kamata and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1982 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Taggart Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190213256
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Japan and the Shackles of the Past written by R. Taggart Murphy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path; military catastrophe, political atrophy, and economic upheavals have made regular appearances from the feudal era to the present. Today, Japan is seen as a has-been with a sluggish economy, an aging population, dysfunctional politics, and a business landscape dominated by yesterday's champions. Though it is supposed to be America's strongest ally in the Asia-Pacific region, it has almost entirely disappeared from the American radar screen. In Japan and the Shackles of the Past, R. Taggart Murphy places the current troubles of Japan in a sweeping historical context, moving deftly from early feudal times to the modern age that began with the Meiji Restoration. Combining fascinating analyses of Japanese culture and society over the centuries with hard-headed accounts of Japan's numerous political regimes, Murphy not only reshapes our understanding of Japanese history, but of Japan's place in the contemporary world. He concedes that Japan has indeed been out of sight and out of mind in recent decades, but contends that this is already changing. Political and economic developments in Japan today risk upheaval in the pivotal arena of Northeast Asia, inviting comparisons with Europe on the eve of the First World War. America's half-completed effort to remake Japan in the late 1940s is unraveling, and the American foreign policy and defense establishment is directly culpable for what has happened. The one apparent exception to Japan's malaise is the vitality of its pop culture, but it's actually no exception at all; rather, it provides critical clues to what is going on now. With insights into everything from Japan's politics and economics to the texture of daily life, gender relations, the changing business landscape, and popular and high culture, Japan and the Shackles of the Past is the indispensable guide to understanding Japan in all its complexity.
Author : Morris Low
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521654258
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (542 download)
Download or read book Science, Technology and Society in Contemporary Japan written by Morris Low and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamic relationship between science, technology and Japanese society, examining how it has contributed to economic growth and national well-being. It presents a synthesis of recent debates by juxtaposing competing views about the role and direction of science, technology and medical care in Japan. Topics discussed include government policy, the private sector and community responses; computers and communication; the automobile industry, the aerospace industry and quality control; the environment; consumer electronics; medical care; and the role of gender. This is an ideal introductory text for students in the sociology of science and technology, the history and philosophy of science, and Japanese studies. Up-to-date research and case studies make this an invaluable resource for readers interested in the nature of science and technology in the twenty-first century.
Author : Kaye Broadbent
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136133380
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Women's Employment in Japan written by Kaye Broadbent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The low status accorded to part-time workers in Japan has resulted in huge inequalities in the workplace. This book examines the problem in-depth using case-study investigations in Japanese workplaces, and reveals the extent of the inequality. It shows how many part-time workers, most of whom are women, are concentrated in low paid, low skilled, poorly unionised service sector jobs. Part-time workers in Japan work hours equivalent to, or greater than, full-time workers, but receive lower financial and welfare benefits than their full-time colleagues. Overall, the book demonstrates that the way part-time work is constructed in Japan reinforces and institutionalises the sexual division of labour.
Author : Jon Woronoff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131548787X
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Japan as (Anything but) Number One written by Jon Woronoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full scale examination of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War - the events that led to it, the Cold War aftermath, and the implications for the region and beyond.
Author : Josef Kreiner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004105164
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Modern Japanese society / edited by Josef Kreiner, Ulrich Hohwald and Hans Dieter Olschleger. written by Josef Kreiner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Japanese society essentially different from other modern industrialized societies, or not? This survey work with contributions from the leading scholars in this complicated field, presents a full overview of the most important aspects of Japanese society which may lead the reader to find an answer to these two often-asked questions. Japanese society, defined as those institutions shaping the life of individuals and groups, as well as being responsible for the dynamics of social development, is shown to be as modern as any other industrialized society; definitely distinct, though, are the ways in which institutions are defined and organised as a result of different social and historical roots of the process of modernization.
Author : K. S. Jomo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134820089
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Japan and Malaysian Economic Development written by K. S. Jomo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-10-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese presence in Southeast Asia is treated variously with either suspicion or encouragement. Japan and Malaysian Development critically assesses different dimensions of Japan-Malaysia economic relations. The work presents a balanced collection of essays examining Japanese involvement in Malaysia. The volume also discusses the impact and consequences of Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir's 'Look East' policy, which advocated greater emphasis on trading relations with Japan.
Author : Anthony Woodiwiss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134915985
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Law, Labour and Society in Japan written by Anthony Woodiwiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Japanese companies establish overseas production facilities at an ever more repid pace, it is increasingly important for people in the host countries to understand the preconceptions upon which the Japanese approach to industrial relations is based. This book traces the development of Japanese labour law and shows how labour law has been related to the prevailing social, economic and political circumstances.
Author : Glenn D. Hook
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134217730
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Contested Governance in Japan written by Glenn D. Hook and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-11 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contested Governance in Japan extends the analysis of governance in contemporary Japan by exploring both the sites and issues of governance above and below the state as well as within it. This volume discusses the contested nature of governance in Japan and the ways in which a range of actors are involved in different sites and issues of governance at home, in the region and the globe. It includes chapters on global governance, local policy-making, democracy, environmental governance, the Japanese financial system, corruption, the family and corporate governance.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Japan's Keiretsu System written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134927126
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan written by Roger Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The issue of how Japanese society operates, and in particular why it has `succeeded', has generated a wide variety of explanatory models, including the Confucian ethic, classlessness, group consciousness, and `uniqueness' in areas as diverse as body images and language patterns. In Ideology and Practice in Modern Japan the contributors examine these models and the ways in which they have sometimes been used to create a sense of `Japaneseness', that obscures the fact that Japan is actually an extremely complex and heterogenous society. In particular, `practice' at the micro-level of society is explored to illuminate or express a broader ideology. The contributors investigate a wide variety of subjects - from attitudes to death to the role of education, from film making to gender segregation - to see what can be said about the phenomenon in particular, what it tells us about Japan in general, and what conclusions can be drawn for our understanding of society in the broadest sense.
Author : Romit Dasgupta
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415683289
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Re-reading the Salaryman in Japan written by Romit Dasgupta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the figure of the salaryman to explore masculinity in Japan by examining the salaryman as a gendered construct, and is one of the first to focus on the men within Japanese corporate culture through a gendered lens. Not only does this add to the emerging literature on masculinity in Japan, but given the important role Japanese corporate culture has played in Japan's emergence as an industrial power, Romit Dasgupta's research offers a new way of looking both at Japanese business culture, and more generally at important changes in Japanese society in recent years.
Author : Mark Mullins
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0895819368
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Religion and Society in Modern Japan written by Mark Mullins and published by Jain Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for classroom study, this anthology provides the students with interpretations and perspectives on the significance of religion in modern Japan. Emphasis is placed on the sociocultural expressions of religion in everyday life, rather than on religious texts or traditions. A particular strength of this collection is the combination of current Japanese and Western scholarship.
Author : Tom Juravich
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780877225614
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Chaos on the Shop Floor written by Tom Juravich and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1988-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author note: Folksinger Tom Juravich has been a machine mechanic, and is currently Assistant Professor of Labor Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Author : Mikiso Hane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429961987
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Modern Japan, Student Economy Edition written by Mikiso Hane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the essential facts of modern Japanese history. It covers a variety of important developments through the 1990s, giving special consideration to how traditional Japanese modes of thought and behavior have affected the recent developments.
Author : Richard Perren
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719024580
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Japanese Studies from Pre-History to 1990 written by Richard Perren and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joy Hendry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136279172
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)
Download or read book Understanding Japanese Society written by Joy Hendry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the ever growing contact between Japan and the rest of the world comes an increasingly important need to understand a society that is fascinating but still often confusing to the outsider. In this brand new fourth edition of Understanding Japanese Society Joy Hendry brings the reader up to date both with recent changes as Japan hit the world headlines under the triple 2011 disasters, and with underlying continuities in ways of thinking that have matured over a long history of dealing with foreign influences and an unpredictable environment. This welcome new edition of Hendry’s bestselling introductory textbook provides a clear, accessible and readable introduction to Japanese society which does not require any previous knowledge of the country. Fully updated, revised and expanded, the fourth edition contains new material on: the effects of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters of 2011 a renewed interest in politics and popular participation increased frequency of local spiritual support as unemployment continues to grow, and marriage gets later and later the effects of a dramatic drop in the birth rate on Japan’s education system the continuing global success of Japanese animation, manga and computer games despite a turn away from international travel the cool new Ainu, the attraction of healing Okinawa, and changes among other Japanese minorities a new role for Japanese fathers in child-rearing This book will be invaluable to all students studying Japan. It will also enlighten those travellers and business people wishing to gain an understanding of the Japanese people.
