Changing Japanese Business, Economy and Society Globalization of Post-Bubble Japan

by Nakamura, Masao

• ISBN13: 9781403941343
• ISBN10: 1403941343
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Masao Nakamura is Professor at the Sauder School of Business, Institute of Asian Research, and Faculty of Applied Science at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Pitman Potter	vii
Notes on the Contributors	xiv
1 Introduction	1	(16)
Masao Nakamura
Part I Japanese Views on Globalization
2 Ryotaro Shiba (1923-96) and the Call for Meiji Values in a Global Age	17	(23)
Sinh Vinh
3 Surviving a Globalized World: Lessons to be Learned from Japan's Problem-Solving Incapability	40	(15)
Yoshihiko Wada
4 The Mind Roaming above the Ocean: Mental Health of Young Japanese Sojourners in Vancouver	55	(22)
Etsuko Kato
5 Okinawa after the Cold War and the Return of American Military Bases	77	(30)
Keisuke Enokido
Part II A Changing Business Environment: Individual Rights and Globalization
6 Aging, Female and Foreign Workers, and Japanese Labor Markets: An International Perspective	107	(37)
Alice Nakamura, Masao Nakamura and Atsushi Seike
7 Gaijin (Foreign) Sumo Wrestlers Help Japanese Tradition to March On: A Case Study of Foreigners in a Japanese Labor Market	144	(14)
Takanobu Nakajima and Kazuhiro Harakawa
8 Gender as Intersectionality: Multiple Discrimination against Minority Women in Japan	158	(27)
Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien
Part III Post-Bubble Japanese Business: Adjusting to the New Era
9 Why Does Japan Receive So Little Direct Investment from Abroad?	185	(18)
Shujiro Urata
10 Japanese Society under Marketization and Globalization	203	(17)
Takanobu Nakajima
11 The Post-Bubble Japanese Business System and Globalization: Implications for Japanese Society	220	(41)
Masao Nakamura and Kozo Horiuchi
Index	261