Taking Japan Seriously
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Taking Japan Seriously
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Author : Ronald Dore
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-12-17
Taking Japan Seriously written by Ronald Dore and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-17 with Business & Economics categories.
An account of motives and motivations behind Japan's accomplishments, this work emphasizes the role of a Confucian impetus. First published in 1987, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
Social Evolution Economic Development And Culture
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Author : Ronald Dore
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Social Evolution Economic Development And Culture written by Ronald Dore and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Business & Economics categories.
This work brings together the key writings of Ronald Dore an expert upon Japan. He covers a range of social science disciplines and provides a perspective that offers four inter-linking themes: technology-driven social evolution; late development; culture; and politics.
Japan Seriously
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Author : David Lazarus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Japan Seriously written by David Lazarus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Japan categories.
Stealth Japan
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Author : Scott Foster
language : en
Publisher: FiReBooks
Release Date : 2016-11-15
Stealth Japan written by Scott Foster and has been published by FiReBooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-15 with categories.
Japan is the world's third largest and second most sophisticated economy, accounting for nearly 10% of global economic activity. It has the lowest unemployment rate among leading industrial nations and, at the same time, a large and growing manufacturing presence around the world. Yet it has frequently been portrayed as an economic basket case - an Asian Greece or Argentina - on the verge of collapse and threatening to take down the world economy with it. This view of Japan is wrong - so wrong that it calls into question the editorial policies of Western media and the ability of those who rely on its reports to develop an accurate understanding of global economic trends. Unlike China, Japan has a modern, well-established legal system that protects contracts and intellectual property. Forced technology transfers are a thing of the past and no government policies have prevented Apple from taking nearly half of Japan's cell phone market and Android from taking most of the rest. Apple, Oracle, Salesforce.com and other American high-tech companies are doing very well in Japan, while the trade debate in the U.S. is still dominated by the complaints of automakers who have never made a serious effort to penetrate the Japanese market, and ranchers. A Stealth aircraft is invisible for two reasons: superior design and obsolete radar. In the case of the Japanese economy, myopic or editorially prejudiced journalism and economic commentary are the "obsolete radar." Stealth Japan: The Surprise Success of the World's First InfoMerc Economy aims to correct misperceptions of Japan's seriously underestimated economy and bring the discussion of its national business model up to date.
The International Minimum
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Author : Jessamyn R. Abel
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2015-05-31
The International Minimum written by Jessamyn R. Abel and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-31 with History categories.
The International Minimum tells the history of internationalism in Japan from the 1930s to 1960s, shedding light on the deep connections between modes of diplomacy during times of aggressive imperial expansion and of peaceful cooperation. For most of the twentieth century, a rhetoric of international cooperation for peace and stability persisted as the lingua franca of foreign relations in Japan and around the world, even during the years of rampant nationalisms and global war. The advocacy and practice of multilateral cooperation, though attenuated and often distorted and abused, did not disappear during the years of aggression and war, but instead were channeled into new and unexpected directions. With a broad view of international relations that takes into account but also looks beyond the official sites of multilateral cooperation, this book uncovers a continuous evolution of internationalist thought and activity in Japan that extends across the dark valley of war and the historiographical schism of defeat. Acknowledging this continuity does not mitigate the violence and atrocities of the wartime regime. But recognizing that institutions, activities, and rhetoric that were derived from the Wilsonian internationalism of the 1920s contributed to imperialism and war, as well as to the postwar construction of a peaceful and democratic "new Japan," does help us understand the enthusiastic participation in war and empire in the years before 1945 by many of the same people in all sectors of Japanese society who eagerly embraced postwar structures of cooperation for peace and shared prosperity. This study rethinks the standard narrative of Japan's international cooperation in three ways: by taking seriously those international activities conducted outside of formal state-level relations, by examining cultural forms of international engagement, and by asserting the importance of rhetoric in cultivating what was then referred to as an "international mind." Rather than signaling the demise of multilateral participation, Japan's infamous withdrawal from the League of Nations became, in fact, the occasion for the diversification of internationalist activities. For instance, proponents of a "people's diplomacy" campaigned to bring the 1940 Olympic Games to Tokyo and established the Society for International Cultural Relations, a national organization for international cultural exchange. But as Japanese society was increasingly mobilized for war, even such popular and cultural efforts at international cooperation were made to contribute to the imperialist project. In the decade after the war ended, familiar internationalist rhetoric became a keystone in the construction of a so-called new Japan. This book traces the evolution of the internationalist worldview in Japan by examining both official policy and general discourse surrounding epochal moments such as Japan's withdrawal from the League and admission into the United Nations, the failed and successful attempts to host a Tokyo Olympiad, and wartime and postwar regional conferences in Tokyo and Bandung, Indonesia. Bringing these varied elements together produces a synthetic history of internationalism, imperialism, and the performance of diplomacy in the twentieth century, when new global norms required a minimum level of international engagement. This story is told through the materials of both high diplomacy and mass culture. Unpublished documents in government and private archives reveal one layer of the formation of Japanese internationalism. The public discourse found in popular journals, books, newspapers, advertisements, poems, and songs articulates what would become the common-sense views of international relations that helped delineate the realm of the possible in imperial and postwar Japanese foreign policy.
Taking Life And Death Seriously
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Author : Takao Takahashi
language : en
Publisher: JAI Press Incorporated
Release Date : 2005-06-10
Taking Life And Death Seriously written by Takao Takahashi and has been published by JAI Press Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-10 with Science categories.
"Taking Life and Death Seriously: Bioethics from Japan".
Japan Its History And Culture
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Author : Scott W. Morton
language : en
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Release Date : 2005
Japan Its History And Culture written by Scott W. Morton and has been published by McGraw Hill Professional this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This fourth edition incorporates the crucial social and economic changes that have taken place in Japan over the last decade, including a detailed account of the upheavals in markets and financial practices.
Japan And Education
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Author : M. Stephens
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Release Date : 1991-03-20
Japan And Education written by M. Stephens and has been published by Palgrave Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-03-20 with Social Science categories.
The Japanese take education very seriously. They see economic success and social wellbeing as intimately tied-up with such provision. Perhaps no other country can equal the level of commitment of the Japanese to education. This book explores the development of such attitudes, the history of Japan's response to them, and the modern debates and initiatives as government and people wrestle with contemporary changes and prepare for a tomorrow which they see as making education even more central to a country's health. Those outside Japan who wish to understand its economic success will find much to give them thought within these pages.
A Gaijin S Guide To Japan
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Author : Ben Stevens
language : en
Publisher: Friday Project
Release Date : 2009
A Gaijin S Guide To Japan written by Ben Stevens and has been published by Friday Project this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Japan categories.
An alternative look at Japanese life, history and culture
Taking Ramen Seriously
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Author : George Sekine Solt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Taking Ramen Seriously written by George Sekine Solt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Food habits categories.
The study of food can divulge some of the most basic characteristics of different people's social organization at any given point in time, and is a useful way to address issues of historical change and continuity at the level of everyday life. The study of food through history is also an important way to bridge the conceptual bifurcation of labor, on one hand, and leisure on the other. Because eating is the most basic activity necessary for the reproduction of labor power, as well as a social activity thick with symbolic associations of recreation and superfluity, it reveals the tight connections between work, rest, and macroeconomic organization in ways that may otherwise not be evident. Building on these notions, in this dissertation, I examine the reconstitution of Chinese noodle-soup in modern Japan at key moments to illuminate the political and economic logic of changes in everyday life. I study the social historical implications of changing food practices by examining shifts in the popularity, material constitution, and meanings attributed to Chinese noodle-soup and its association with different categories over time. The designation of the dish as foreign, urban, cheap, nutritious, fast, slow, novel, traditional, unhealthy, or Japanese in various social-economic contexts reveals how dietary practices and ideas about nourishment are tightly interlaced with shifting labor conditions, industrialization, international trade relations, and state policy-making. Dietary change, as seen through one particular dish, therefore, serves as the medium for establishing the connections between shifts in the political economy and everyday life practices in modern Japan.