Japan After the Economic Miracle

by Bowles, Paul; Woods, Lawrence T.

• ISBN13: 9780792360315
• ISBN10: 0792360311
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

As Japan comes to grips with a decade of economic malaise after its spectacular post-war growth record, how will Japanese society react? Contributors to this volume examine the challenges ahead for Japan in the fields of politics, economics, sociology, environment and business. This multidisciplinary inquiry looks for areas of continuity and for new directions in government, business and social policy and practice. Also examined is how Western students should approach the study of Japan; what new directions should institutions take to ensure that students learn about the 'real' Japan? Written by Canadian academics, the articles in this volume will be of interest to academics and policy-makers studying or teaching about contemporary Japan.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(8)
Paul Bowles
Lawrence T. Woods
Part I. Searching for new directions: the Japanese challenges and responses	9	(216)
Japan's postwar Fordism: an historical perspective on the economic crisis in Japan	11	(26)
John Price
Restoring the legitimacy of Japanese business in the post-bubble era: can good economics make good ethics easier?	37	(22)
Teri Ursacki
Changing behaviour of Japanese consumers	59	(12)
Charles Beaupre
Back in the race: Japan and the Internet	71	(14)
Ken Coates
New directions in Canada's Japanese-owned automobile plants	85	(20)
Paul Parker
Tod Rutherford
Tesshu Koshiba
Producing and managing hazardous waste in Japan	105	(22)
Don Munton
Sustainability of farm settlements in Japan after the economic miracle: a case study of Onoji hamlet and Yamanashi prefecture	127	(18)
Akira Tabayashi
Toshio Kikuchi
Tom Waldichuk
New directions in Japanese urban planning: a case study of Nagoya	145	(24)
David W. Edgington
The aging of Japanese society: human resource management in transition	169	(16)
K. Victor Ujimoto
Contemporary party politics in Japan: an old wine in a new bottle?	185	(40)
Akira Kubota
Part II. Searching for new directions: The Canadian challenges and responses	225	(96)
Breaking into the Japanese Market: Canadian companies and the challenge of doing business in Japan	227	(24)
Carin Holroyd
Learning with a new media	251	(14)
X. Jie Yang
History of Japanese language education at UBC, 1956--1998: challenges and future directions	265	(12)
Kyung-Hee Lynn
Teaching Japanese to a multicultural student population	277	(26)
Rebecca Chau
Yuko Shibata
Beyond boundaries: Japanese migrant women in North America	303	(18)
Yoko Ishii
Index	321