Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of contemporary Japan.
Institutional and Technological Change in Japan's Economy: Past and Present
1st Edition
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By Janet Hunter, Cornelia Storz
November 14, 2012
Institutional and technological change is a highly topical subject. At the theoretical level, there is much debate in the field of institutional economics about the role of technological change in endogenous growth theory. At a practical policy level, arguments rage about how Japan and the Japanese...
Small Firms and Innovation Policy in Japan
1st Edition
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By Cornelia Storz
November 14, 2012
This new book discusses the extent to which the Japanese economy encourages entrepreneurship and innovation. Although Japan has a strong reputation as an innovator, some people argue that this reputation is misplaced. Contrary to earlier expectations, the USA rather than Japan emerged as the ...
A New Japan for the Twenty-First Century: An Inside Overview of Current Fundamental Changes and Problems
1st Edition
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By Rien T. Segers
September 18, 2012
Many people in the West portray Japan as being fixed in its ways, and unable to change, and consequently risking national decline and international loss of prestige. However, in fact, Japan is at present in a significant transition period, comparable to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 or the period ...
Japanese Apologies for World War II: A Rhetorical Study
1st Edition
By Jane Yamazaki
July 27, 2012
Post-war Japan offers a compelling case study of national apologies for past wrongdoings. Actions of the Japanese Army and government during the Second World War caused enormous suffering and distress throughout Asia, leaving a legacy of resentment and distrust. Beginning in the mid-1980s, apology ...
Adoption in Japan: Comparing Policies for Children in Need
1st Edition
By Peter Hayes, Toshie Habu
July 11, 2012
The first book-length study of adoption in Japan, this impressive work tackles the innovative and sometimes controversial subject of the policies of adoption agencies in Japan. The book places special adoption in the context of a liberal reformist agenda that has challenged ...
A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific: Foreign bodies in tinned tuna
1st Edition
By Kate Barclay
June 13, 2012
The Japanese, and other Asians, are increasingly taking over some of the roles previously played by Europeans in the Pacific islands, which is giving rise to interesting new economic relationships, and interesting new interactions between nationalities. This book considers the role of the Japanese ...
Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development: Inescapable Solutions
1st Edition
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By David Leheny, Kay Warren
January 19, 2012
Instead of asking the usual questions about Japanese aid — Why is Japanese aid so different from that of other donors? Is Japanese aid effective? — this collection takes it as axiomatic that Japanese aid actors are now working in a contentious environment affected by changing global norms of aid. ...
Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture
1st Edition
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By Nina Cornyetz, J. Keith Vincent
October 11, 2011
How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki’s canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make of Jacques Lacan’s infamous claim that because of the nature of their language the Japanese people ...
Political Reform in Japan: Leadership Looming Large
1st Edition
By Alisa Gaunder
October 11, 2011
Political Reform in Japan argues that the quality of political leadership is the crucial determinant of whether parties in positions of dominance, like the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, pass or reject policies such as electoral system and campaign finance reforms that could harm the party's ...
The Rise of Japanese NGOs: Activism from Above
1st Edition
By Kim D. Reimann
October 11, 2011
Over the past two decades, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have exploded in number and emerged as a new force in international and transnational politics. Why, however, do some countries nonetheless have more active NGO sectors than others? Using the case of Japan, this book uncovers ...
Challenges of Human Resource Management in Japan
1st Edition
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By Ralf Bebenroth, Toshihiro Kanai
July 08, 2011
Human resource management systems differ across corporations around the world. Japan has unique characteristics that create specific challenges for HRM and there is currently a lack of research focusing on Japanese HR issues available to westerners. This book examines the major challenges and ...
Marriage in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
By Yoko Tokuhiro
May 13, 2011
The phenomenon of bankonka – ‘postponement of marriage’ – is increasingly reported in contemporary Japanese media, clearly illustrating the changing patterns of modern lifestyles and attitudes towards marriage, personal obligation and ambition. This is the first book in recent years to explore the ...