Japan after the economic miracle : in search of new directions / edited by Paul Bowles and Lawrence T. Woods.
Material type: TextSeries: Social indicators research series ; v. 3.Publisher: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: ix, 326 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0792360311
- 9780792360315
- 330.952 21
- HC462.95 .J352 2000
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Papers presented at 11th annual meeting of the Japan Studies Association of Canada at the University of Northern British Columbia from 2-3 October 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Pt. I. Searching for new directions: the Japanese challenges and responses -- 1. Japan's postwar Fordism: an historical perspective on the economic crisis in Japan -- 2. Restoring the legitimacy of Japanese business in the post-bubble era: can good economics make good ethics easier? -- 3. Changing behaviour of Japanese consumers -- 4. Back in the race: Japan and the Internet -- 5. New directions in Canada's Japanese-owned automobile plants -- 6. Producing and managing hazardous waste in Japan -- 7. Sustainability of farm settlements in Japan after the economic miracle: a case study of Onoji hamlet and Yamanashi prefecture -- 8. New directions in Japanese urban planning: a case study of Nagoya -- 9. The aging of Japanese society: human resource management in transition -- 10. Contemporary party politics in Japan: an old wine in a new bottle? -- Pt. II. Searching for new directions: The Canadian challenges and responses -- 11. Breaking into the Japanese Market: Canadian companies and the challenge of doing business in Japan -- 12. Learning with a new media -- 13. History of Japanese language education at UBC, 1956-1998: challenges and future directions -- 14. Teaching Japanese to a multicultural student population -- 15. Beyond boundaries: Japanese migrant women in North America -- Index.
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