Can Japan Globalize?

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Is Japan Changing?

      • Malcolm Trevor

      Pages 3-17

3. The Internal Preparations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. The Economy: Towards the Market Principle?

      1. The Government-Industry Relationship in Japan: What the History of the Electric Power Industry Teaches Us

         • Takeo Kikkawa

         Pages 21-34

      2. Buyer-Seller Interaction and Relationship Development in the Japanese Business Market

         • Sam Dzever

         Pages 35-49

      3. Restructuring à la Japonaise: Supplier Relationships in the Japanese Car Industry in the 1990s

         • Arne Holzhausen

         Pages 51-65

      4. Japan’s Financial Reform

         • Kurt Görger

         Pages 67-81

      5. Modes of Employment in Japan

         • Michio Nitta

         Pages 83-95

   3. The Firm: Towards Open Structures?

      1. Recent Arguments on Corporate Governance in Japan

         • Kazuo Shibagaki

         Pages 99-105

      2. Foreign Capital and the Recent M&A Environment in Japan

         • Shinobu Muramatsu

         Pages 107-119

      3. Human Resource Development of Professional Workers in Large Manufacturers in Britain and Japan: A Comparative Study

         • Kazuo Koike

         Pages 121-136

      4. Organisational Learning is Dead! Long Live Organisational Learning!

         • John B. Kidd

         Pages 137-152

      5. Bridging the Gap of Uncertainty: A Fragmentary Case Study of Toyota’s Prius

         • Enno Berndt, André Metzner

         Pages 153-175

   4. The Society: Towards Pluralism?

      1. Japan’s General Elections of June 2000: Revolution or Ripple?

         • J. A. A. Stockwin

         Pages 179-198

      2. Samurai and <i>Sarariiman</i>: The Discourse on Masculinity in Modern Japan

         • Annette Schad-Seifert

         Pages 199-211

      3. Technology and Gender in Japan

         • Ilse Lenz

         Pages 213-227

      4. “Heartful Guidance”: Fighting Juvenile Deviancy in a Japanese Community

         • Gesine Foljanty-Jost

         Pages 229-241

4. The External Preparations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. Foreign Relations: Asian or Global Leadership?

      1. The “New Asianism”

         • Peter Duus

         Pages 245-256

Japan's deepest recession since the Second World War has come to an end in 2000. Yet, the task of reforming Japan is far from completed. The current political drift has brought deregulation to a premature end putting the still vulnerable recovery at risk. What structural changes have already taken place? What important reforms have to be undertaken in the future?
The contributions of the book shed light on the transitional path of the Japanese system amid rapid globalization. Can Japan Globalize? covers a broad range of areas from macro- and micro-economic structures to political and social relations.

• Asia
• China
• Globalization
• Import
• Japan
• political economy

• Institute for East Asian Studies, Freie University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Arne Holzhausen

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