Masao Nakamura (ed.)

Changing Japanese Business, Economy and Society

Globalization of Post-Bubble Japan
Herausgegeben:Nakamura, M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In order to regain its competitiveness, Japan is restructuring and globalizing its business and economics system, as well as other aspects of society. How it is resolving this is of huge interest to its global trading partners. With contributions from well-known North American and Japanese academics, this book discusses these issues from historical, analytical and empirical perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4039-4134-3
• 2004
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781403941343
• ISBN-10: 1403941343
• Artikelnr.: 21261764

Autorenporträt

JENNIFER CHAN-TIBERGHINEN Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada KEISUKE ENOKIDO School of Community and Regional Planning, Vancouver, Canada KAZUHIRO HARAKAWA Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan KOZO HORIUCHI Faculty of Humanity and Environment, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan ETSUKO KATO Division of International Studies, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan TAKANOBU NAKAJIMA Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan ALICE NAKAMURA School of Business, University of Alberta, Canada PITMAN POTTER Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Canada ATSUSHI SEIKE Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan SHUJIRO URATA School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan SINH VINH Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Canada YOSHIHIKO WADA Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; M.Nakamura PART 1: JAPANESE VIEWS ON GLOBALIZATION Ryotaro Shiba (1923-1996) and the Call for Meiji Values in a Global Age; S.Vinh Surviving a Globalized World: Lessons to be Learned from Japan's Problem-Solving Incapability; Y.Wada The Mind Roaming above the Ocean: Mental Health of Young Japanese Sojourners in Vancouver; E.Kato Okinawa after the Cold War and the Return of American Military Bases; K.Enokido PART 2: CHANGING BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT: INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND GLOBALIZATION Aging, Female and Foreign Workers, and Japanese Labour Markets: An International Perspective; A.Nakamura, M.Nakamura & A.Seike Gaijin (Foreign) Sumo Wrestlers Help Japanese Tradition to March on; T.Nakajima & K.Harakawa Gender as Intersectionality: Multiple Discrimination against Minority Women in Japan; J.Chan-Tiberghinen PART 3: POST-BUBBLE JAPANESE BUSINESS: ADJUSTING TO THE NEW ERA Why Does Japan Receive So Little Direct Investment from Abroad? S.Urata Japanese Society under Marketization and Globalization; T.Nakajima The Post-Bubble Japanese Business System and Globalization: Implications for Japanese Society; M.Nakamura & K.Horiuchi