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  • Japan's Economic Challenge Japan's Economic Challenge
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    Japan's Economic Challenge

    This book, first published in 1988, assembles a key pool of references in English to help study the 'Japanese economic challenge' of the 1980s. Collectively, these writings chronicle the historical,...
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  • Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges
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    Tackling Japan's Fiscal Challenges

    Overview of the Japanese Deficit Question; R.G.Hubbard & T.Ito Comments on 'Overview of the Japanese Deficit Question'; D.E.Weinstein Comments on 'Overview of the Japanese Deficit Question'; N...
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  • Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge
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    Japan's Foreign Aid Challenge

    When this volume was published in 1993 it was the first comprehensive analysis of the major policy issues confronting Japan's massive foreign aid programme. It deals with the philosophy behind...
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  • Japan Challenges America Japan Challenges America
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    Japan Challenges America

    With the US-Japan alliance in jeopardy, former diplomat Harrison Holland argues that both sides must take bold steps to avert a catastrophe that could destabilize economic, political and security...
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  • Re-inventing Japan Re-inventing Japan
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    Re-inventing Japan

    This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture...
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  • The Challenge for Japanese Multinationals The Challenge for Japanese Multinationals
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    The Challenge for Japanese Multinationals

    The Challenge for Japanese Multinationals is about strategic issues of modern management from the view of global business practice. In the 2010 issue of Fortune Magazine's top 500 Multi-National...
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  • Japan and National Anthropology Japan and National Anthropology
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    Japan and National Anthropology

    Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone...
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  • The US-Japan Alliance The US-Japan Alliance
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    The US-Japan Alliance

    Japan's use of Soft power in its international politics is as yet understudied. Soft power presents as many challenges as promises. This book explores the way Japan uses soft power in its...
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  • Japan's Economic Revival Japan's Economic Revival
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    Japan's Economic Revival

    Foreword; J.Lipsky Acknowledgements Overview; D.A.Citrin and A.Zanello PART I: GROWTH AND DEMOGRAPHICS Japan's Potential Output and Productivity Growth; P.N'Diaye Household Savings in Japan; H...
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  • Reworking Japan
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    Reworking Japan

    Reworking Japan examines how the past several decades of neoliberal economic restructuring and reforms have challenged Japan's corporate ideologies, gendered relations, and subjectivities of...
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  • Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan
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    Crime and Justice in Contemporary Japan

    This book provides an important overview of key criminology and criminal justice concerns in Japan. It highlights similarities between the practice of criminology research in Japan, as well as...
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  • Japan and the Internet Revolution Japan and the Internet Revolution
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    Japan and the Internet Revolution

    Japan and the Internet Revolution challenges the portrait of Japan as a technologically slow-moving nation, lacking in creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Overcoming the substantial barriers...
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  • Governing Insecurity in Japan Governing Insecurity in Japan
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    Governing Insecurity in Japan

    Since the end of the Cold War, Japan's security environment has changed significantly. While, on the global level, the United States is still Japan's most important security partner, the nature of...
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    31 Months in Japan

    31 Months in Japan--the Building of a Theme Park is the story of two Southern Californians embarking on the adventure of a lifetime--moving to Japan to participate in the construction of the...
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  • Japan, the System That Soured Japan, the System That Soured
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    Japan, the System That Soured

    After seven long years of economic malaise, it is clear that something has gone awry in Japan. Unless Japan undertakes sweeping reform, official forecasts now warn, growth will steadily dwindle. How...
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  • The Birth Of Japan's Postwar Constitution The Birth Of Japan's Postwar Constitution
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    The Birth Of Japan's Postwar Constitution

    This book provides an extremely important new perspective on the Japanese Constitution, challenging the easy assumption that it is simply an American invention imposed on a helpless Japan. It...
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    Zen Masters of Japan

    Zen Masters of Japan is the second book in a series that traces Zen's profoundly historic journey as it spread eastward from China and Japan, toward the United States. Following Zen Masters of China,...
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  • Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan
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    Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan

    This new and fully updated second edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary textbook written by leading specialists...
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  • Opposition Politics in Japan Opposition Politics in Japan
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    Opposition Politics in Japan

    The Liberal Democratic Party in Japan remained in power continuously between 1955 and 1993. In this groundbreaking study of the dominance of the LDP in Japanese politics over the last forty years,...
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  • Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video
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    Japanese Film and the Challenge of Video

    This book explores the phenomenon of V-Cinema, founded in Japan in 1989 as a distribution system for direct-to-video movies which film companies began making having failed to recoup their investment...
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  • Housing and Social Transition in Japan Housing and Social Transition in Japan
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    Housing and Social Transition in Japan

    Bringing together a number of perspectives on the Japanese housing system, Housing and Social Transition in Japan provides a comprehensive, challenging and theoretically developed account of the...
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  • Japan at War and Peace Japan at War and Peace
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    Japan at War and Peace

    The question of how to maintain the continuity of diplomacy while developing democracy without military intervention is an old and new issue. The challenge can be described as a dilemma between...
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  • The End of Cool Japan The End of Cool Japan
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    The End of Cool Japan

    Today's convergent media environment offers unprecedented opportunities for sourcing and disseminating previously obscure popular culture material from Japan. However, this presents concerns...
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    Antitrust in Germany and Japan

    Antitrust in Germany and Japan presents an innovative, comparative analysis of the development and enforcement of two antitrust regimes, illustrating how each was shaped by American occupation...
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  • Japan's World Power Japan's World Power
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    Japan's World Power

    Since the end of the 1960s, Japan's power in the world has largely been linked to its economic successes, while it has pursued a decidedly pacifist post-war foreign policy. Recently, however, there...
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  • Hidden Japan
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    Hidden Japan

    Originally published in Japanese as a call to preserve disappearing facets of Japan's rich and ancient culture, this book takes its inspiration from the 1960s classic, Hidden Hamlets by...
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  • Mental Health Care in Japan Mental Health Care in Japan
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    Mental Health Care in Japan

    Mental health, including widespread depression, a high suicide rate and institutionalisation, is a major problem in Japan. At the same time, the mental health care system in Japan has historically...
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  • Europe and the Japanese Challenge
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    Europe and the Japanese Challenge

    Japanese foreign direct investment surged into Western markets in the late 1980s provoking intense policy debates in Europe and America. How did the European authorities respond to this 'Japanese...
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  • Living on the Streets in Japan Living on the Streets in Japan
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    Living on the Streets in Japan

    Homelessness has been recognized as a serious problem in Japan since the 1990s, but the dominant model of a “homeless person” has been that of an unemployed male laborer - a model that...
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  • Diversity and Inclusion in Japan Diversity and Inclusion in Japan
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    Diversity and Inclusion in Japan

    Alcantara, Shinohara, and their contributors evaluate the current state of diversity and inclusion (D&I) within business and higher education in Japan, and the importance of D&I to the growth...
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  • Language Life in Japan Language Life in Japan
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    Language Life in Japan

    Despite its monolingual self-image, Japan is multilingual and growing more so due to indigenous minority language revitalization and as an effect of migration. Besides Japan's autochthonous languages...
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  • Examining Japan's Lost Decades Examining Japan's Lost Decades
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    Examining Japan's Lost Decades

    This book examines five features of Japan's 'Lost Decades': the speed of the economic decline in Japan compared to Japan's earlier global prowess; a rapidly declining population; considerable...
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  • Industrial Innovation in Japan Industrial Innovation in Japan
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    Industrial Innovation in Japan

    In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in modern Japan, including automobile, electronics,...
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    Japanese Brazilians in Japan Japanese Brazilians in Japan
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    Japanese Brazilians in Japan

    This book provides an overview of recent immigrant phenomenon in Japan and explains the complexity of the community integration of Japanese Brazilian offsprings, whose ancestors immigrated to Brazil...
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  • Urban Spaces in Japan Urban Spaces in Japan
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    Urban Spaces in Japan

    Urban Spaces in Japan explores the workings of power, money and the public interest in the planning and design of Japanese space. Through a set of vivid case studies of well-known Japanese cities...
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  • Budget Travel in Japan Budget Travel in Japan
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    Budget Travel in Japan

    Budget Travel in JapanAustralians Penny and Bill Farrant travelled to Japan in the heart of the Japanese winter of 1991-1992 to visit friends in Sapporo. They travelled around the main four...
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  • The Culture of Copying in Japan The Culture of Copying in Japan
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    The Culture of Copying in Japan

    This book challenges the perception of Japan as a 'copying culture' through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies. It addresses a question about why the West has had such a...
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  • Katz Awa, The Bismarck Of Japan Katz Awa, The Bismarck Of Japan
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    Katz Awa, The Bismarck Of Japan

    Katz Awa, The Bismarck Of Japan: Or The Story Of A Noble Life is a biographical book written by Edward Warren Clark and published in 1904. The book tells the story of Katz Awa, a Japanese statesman...
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  • Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan
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    Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan

    Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective...
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  • The Political History of Modern Japan The Political History of Modern Japan
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    The Political History of Modern Japan

    Spanning the 130-year period between the end of the Tokugawa Era and the end of the Cold War, this book introduces students to the formation, collapse, and rebirth of the modern Japanese state...
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  • Individuality in Early Modern Japan Individuality in Early Modern Japan
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    Individuality in Early Modern Japan

    Two of the most commonly alleged features of Japanese society are its homogeneity and its encouragement of conformity, as represented by the saying that the nail that sticks up gets pounded. This...
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